Cray EX255a is the blade for Cray EX platforms that hosts GH200.
Each blade has two nodes, and each node has
- 2x GH200 superchips
- 1 Grace CPU (72 cores, Arm Neoverse V2)
- 1 Hopper H100 GPU
- 128 GB LPDDR5X DRAM
- Although Grace supports “up to” 480 GB with ECC, the HPE spec sheet only offers a 128 GB option.1
- Similarly, Alps’s nodes only have 128 GB (or 120 GB2 with ECC).
- It appears that this node has significantly less than the maximum LPDDR5 than Grace supports, probably reflecting an optimal cost/performance ratio for HPC applications.
- 4x Slingshot-11 NICs3
I don’t think this blade can accept NVMe SSDs like some other Cray EX blades.
Logically, each GH200 appears as its own NUMA domain within a node.2
Here’s a photo I took of the blade:4