Supercomputers/Systems/CityU Burgundy
China · operational · mixed
CityU Burgundy
Also known as City University of Hong Kong HPC cluster
Operated by CityU Hong Kong .
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Figures are as last publicly reported for the configuration described below, not a live measurement. Where a system was upgraded in place, the post-upgrade configuration is shown and the earlier one appears in the timeline.
What this machine is made of
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| Role | Part | Supplier at build | Quantity | Confidence | Source |
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| Integrator | - HPE Apollo 2000 and HPE Apollo 6500 Gen10 Plus systems | Hewlett Packard Enterprise | - | Reported | itpro.comchanneldrive.in |
| Accelerator | NVIDIA Tesla V100 Accelerators CUDA (Volta GV100) · 5,120C · 1.53 GHz · 12 nm · 300 W 56 NVIDIA V100 Tensor Core GPUs | NVIDIA | 56 reported | Reported | itpro.comchanneldrive.in |
| Accelerator | - 8 NVIDIA A100 80GB Tensor Core GPUs | NVIDIA | 8 reported | Reported | itpro.comchanneldrive.in |
| CPU | AMD EPYC 7742 (Rome) CPUs x86-64 · 64C · 2.25 GHz · 7 nm · 225 W 328 AMD EPYC 7742 processors | AMD | 328 reported | Reported | itpro.comchanneldrive.in |
The read
City University of Hong Kong's central research cluster, named CityU Burgundy by the university and built by HPE, announced on 6 April 2022 (ITPro, Channel Drive and 01net all carry the HPE release). It combines HPE Apollo 2000 and Apollo 6500 Gen10 Plus systems holding 328 AMD EPYC 7742 processors, 56 NVIDIA V100 Tensor Core GPUs and 8 NVIDIA A100 80GB GPUs, on networking described only as lower latency. HPE says it is nearly ten times faster for HPC and AI work than the departmental clusters it replaced (the headline says up to 10X, the footnote says nearly 10 times); consolidating those silos into one site let CityU cut data-centre space and carbon footprint and switch off more chiller plants. A CityU quantum chemistry project is quoted as seeing turnaround fall by three to seven times. The pages do not give node or core counts, the interconnect make, storage, power, a measured HPL figure or the date service began, so only the April 2022 announcement date is recorded as the evidence date. It sits alongside the GPU-only hkust-superpod in Hong Kong.
Timeline
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Change history
- 2026-11-01 Added CityU Burgundy