3. Custom Containerized Environment
Currently, we are hosting these services (available after configuring the hosts):
Determined AI - Distributed Deep Learning and Hyperparameter Tuning Platform
Nextcloud - File storage and sharing
Harbor - Container registry for GPU cluster
Grafana - Statistics and visualization
Wandb local - Self-hosted weights & biases
Shared Folders:
https://pan.cvgl.lab/s/6P8EyrewEz4G3sm
Our cluster is located in the core server room, E6-106; currently has 8 GPU servers (64 GPUs), 2 storage servers and 1 management server active.
We have been designated with an IP address range: 10.0.1.66-94/27.
System Topology:
┌───────────────────────────────────┐ ┌──────────────────────────────────┐
│ Login Node │ │ NGINX Reverse Proxy │
└─────────────┬─────────────────────┘ └────────┬────────┬────────────────┘
│ │ │
Access ┌────────Access────────┘ Access
│ │ │
┌─────────────▼─────────▼───────────┐ ┌─────────────────▼─────────────────┐
│ Determined AI GPU Cluster │ │ Supplementary Services │
├───────────────────────────────────┤ ├───────────────────────────────────┤
│ │ │ │
│ ┌──────┐ ┌────┐ ┌────┐ ┌────┐ │ │ ┌──────┐ ┌───────┐ ┌───────┐ │
│ │Master│ │GPU │ │GPU │ │GPU │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │
│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ... │ │ │Harbor│ │Grafana│ │ Other │ ... │
│ │ Node │ │Node│ │Node│ │Node│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │
│ └──────┘ └────┘ └────┘ └────┘ │ │ └──────┘ └───────┘ └───────┘ │
│ │ │ │
└───────────────────┬───────────────┘ └──────────┬────────────────────────┘
│ │
Access Access
│ │
┌───────────────────▼────────────────────────────▼────────────────────────┐
│ TrueNAS - NFS │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ │
│ Storage Server │
│ │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
The specifics of the cluster nodes are as follows:
GPU Node 1:
| Name | Spec |
|---|---|
| Model | Powerleader PR4908R (Supermicro 4124GS-TNR) |
| CPU | AMD EPYC 7302 * 2 (32C/64T, 3.0-3.3GHz) |
| RAM | Samsung M393A2K43DB2-CVF DDR4 256G (16G*16) 2933MT/s ECC REG |
| GPU | MSI (0x1462) RTX 3090 Turbo * 8 |
| SSD | Intel P4510 2TB (U.2 PCIe 3.1) * 1 |
| NIC | Intel I350-T2 1GbE Dual Port |
| NIC | Mellanox ConnectX-4 VPI EDR QSFP28 MCX455A-ECAT 100Gb ETH/IB Single Port |
| RAID | LSI MegaRAID SAS-3 3108 |
GPU Node 2:
| Name | Spec |
|---|---|
| Model | Powerleader PR4908R (Supermicro 4124GS-TNR) |
| CPU | AMD EPYC 7402 * 2 (48C/96T, 2.8-3.35GHz) |
| RAM | SK Hynix HMA84GR7DJR4N-XN DDR4 512G (32G*16) 3200MT/s ECC REG |
| GPU | MANLI (NVIDIA/0x10DE) RTX 4090 * 8 |
| SSD | Intel P4510 2TB (U.2 PCIe 3.1) * 1 |
| SSD | Kioxa CD6 7.68TB (U.2 PCIe 4.0) * 1 |
| NIC | Intel I350-T2 1GbE Dual Port |
| NIC | Mellanox ConnectX-4 VPI EDR QSFP28 MCX455A-ECAT 100Gb ETH/IB Single Port |
GPU Node 3, 4:
| Name | Spec |
|---|---|
| Model | Powerleader PR4908R (Supermicro 4124GS-TNR) |
| CPU | AMD EPYC 7402 * 2 (48C/96T, 2.8-3.35GHz) |
| RAM | Samsung M393A4K40DB3-CWE DDR4 512G (32G*16) 3200MT/s ECC REG |
| GPU | MSI (0x1462) RTX 3090 * 8 |
| SSD | Intel P4510 2TB (U.2 PCIe 3.1) * 1 |
| NIC | Intel I350-T2 1GbE Dual Port |
| NIC | Mellanox ConnectX-4 VPI EDR QSFP28 MCX455A-ECAT 100Gb ETH/IB Single Port |
GPU Node 5:
| Name | Spec |
|---|---|
| Model | ASUS ESC8000A-E11 |
| CPU | AMD EPYC 7543 * 2 (64C/128T, 2.8-3.7GHz) |
| RAM | Samsung M393A4K40EB3-CWE DDR4 512G (32G*16) 3200MT/s ECC REG |
| GPU | MANLI (NVIDIA/0x10DE) RTX 4090 * 8 |
| SSD | Intel S4610 (SSDSC2KG96) 960G (SATA) (RAID 1) * 2 |
| NIC | Intel I350-T4 1GbE Quad Port |
| NIC | Mellanox ConnectX-4 VPI EDR QSFP28 MCX455A-ECAT 100Gb ETH/IB Single Port |
| RAID | LSI SAS3008 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-3 |
GPU Node 6, 7:
| Name | Spec |
|---|---|
| Model | ASUS ESC8000A-E12 |
| CPU | AMD EPYC 9554 * 2 (128C/256T, 3.1-3.75GHz) |
| RAM | Samsung M321R8GA0BB0-CQKZJ / Micron MTC40F2046S1RC48BA1 DDR5 1536G (64G*24) 4800MT/s ECC REG |
| GPU | MSI (NVIDIA/0x10DE) RTX 4090 * 8 |
| SSD | Samsung PM9A3 1.92T (U.2 PCIe 4.0) * 1 |
| NIC | Intel I350-AM2 1GbE Dual Port |
| NIC | Mellanox ConnectX-4 VPI EDR QSFP28 MCX455A-ECAT 100Gb ETH/IB Single Port |
GPU Node 8:
| Name | Spec |
|---|---|
| Model | ASUS ESC8000A-E12 |
| CPU | AMD EPYC 9554 * 2 (128C/256T, 3.1-3.75GHz) |
| RAM | SK Hynix HMCG94AEBRA109N DDR5 1536G (64G*24) 4800MT/s ECC REG |
| GPU | NVIDIA (0x10de) RTX 6000 Ada Generation 48G * 8 |
| SSD | Samsung PM9A3 (MZQL21T9HCJR-00A07) 1.92TB 2.5" NVMe U.2 drive * 2 |
| NIC | Mellanox ConnectX-6 VPI NIC; HDR100, EDR IB/100GbE; dual-port QSFP56; PCIe4.0 x16; (MCX653106A-ECAT) |
| NIC | Intel I350-T2 1GbE Dual Port |
Storage Server
| Name | Spec |
|---|---|
| Model | Powerleader PR4224AK (Supermicro H11SSL) |
| CPU | AMD EPYC 7302 (16C/32T, 3.0-3.3GHz) |
| RAM | Samsung M393A4K40DB2-CWE DDR4 256G (32G*8) 2933MT/s ECC REG |
| SSD | INTEL 760p (SSDPEKKW256G8) 256G (M.2 PCIe 3.0) * 1 |
| SSD | Intel S4510 1.92TB (SATA) * 2 |
| SSD | WD Ultrastar DC SN640 (WUS4BB076D7P3E3) 7.68TB (U.2 PCIe 3.0) * 12 |
| HDD | Seagate Exos X18 18TB * 24 |
| NIC | Intel i210 1GbE * 2 |
| NIC | Mellanox ConnectX-4 VPI EDR QSFP28 MCX455A-ECAT 100Gb ETH/IB Single Port |
| RAID | LSI SAS3008 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-3 |
Storage Server (2U, SSD-only):
| Name | Spec |
|---|---|
| Model | Dell PowerEdge R7525 |
| CPU | AMD EPYC 7313 * 2 (32C/64T, 3.0-3.7GHz) |
| RAM | Samsung DDR4 ECC REG 3200MHz 512G (32G * 16) |
| SSD | KIOXIA DC CD7 RI 960GB 2.5" NVMe U.2 drive |
| NIC | Broadcom BCM5720 Gigabit Ethernet * 2 |
| NIC | Mellanox ConnectX-6 VPI NIC; HDR100, EDR IB/100GbE; dual-port QSFP56; PCIe4.0 x16; (MCX653106A-ECAT) |
Management Server
| Name | Spec |
|---|---|
| Model | ASUS RS520-E9-RS8 V2 |
| CPU | Intel Xeon Silver 4210R * 2 (20C/40T, 2.4-3.2GHz) |
| RAM | Samsung M393A4K40EB3-CWE DDR4 64G (32G*2) 3200MT/s @ 2400MT/s ECC REG |
| SSD | Intel S4610 (SSDSC2KG96) 960G * 2 (SATA) (RAID 1) |
| NIC | Intel i350-AM2 1GbE Dual Port |
| NIC | Mellanox ConnectX-4 VPI EDR QSFP28 MCX455A-ECAT 100Gb ETH/IB Single Port |
| RAID | LSI SAS3008 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-3 |
Switch
| Brand | Model & Spec |
|---|---|
| NVIDIA Mellanox | Spectrum SN2700 100GbE 1U Open Ethernet Switch with NVIDIA Onyx, 32 QSFP28 ports, 2 PSU, x86 CPU, Standard depth |




