HPE Cray XD6500 vs Lenovo ThinkSystem SR680a V3
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The HPE Cray XD6500 is an enterprise 5U accelerated server platform purpose built for massive artificial intelligence training, generative deep learning models, and complex molecular simulation workloads. The Lenovo ThinkSystem SR680a V3 is an air-cooled 8U AI supercomputer server powered by dual 5th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors and an 8-way NVIDIA HGX H100 or H200 baseboard.
| HPE Cray XD6500 | Lenovo ThinkSystem SR680a V3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | HPE | Lenovo |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Nov 2022 | Mar 2024 |
| Form factor | 5U GPU supercomputing node | 8U rack |
| Cpu sockets | 2 | — |
| Cpu architecture | AMD EPYC 9004 or 4th/5th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable | — |
| Accelerators | 8x NVIDIA H100 or H200 SXM5, or AMD Instinct MI300X | — |
| Accelerator interconnect | NVLink 4.0 or Infinity Fabric up to 900GB/s per GPU | — |
| System memory | Up to 3TB DDR5 ECC memory across 24 or 32 DIMMs | — |
| Networking | Up to 8 high-speed PCIe Gen5 / OSFP InfiniBand or Slingshot adapters | — |
| Power supplies | Up to six 3000W titanium hot-plug redundant power supplies | — |
| Processor | — | Up to 2x 5th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors up to 64 cores each (up to 385W TDP) |
| Memory | — | 32x DDR5 DIMM slots supporting up to 4TB DDR5-5600 ECC RDIMM |
| Drive bays | — | Up to 16x 2.5-inch hot-swap NVMe SSD bays (PCIe 5.0) plus dual M.2 boot mirrors |
| Gpu support | — | 8-way NVIDIA HGX H100 / H200 SXM5 baseboard interconnected with 900 GB/s bidirectional NVLink |
| Network | — | 8x PCIe 5.0 x16 slots dedicated to 400Gb/s NDR InfiniBand / BlueField-3 DPUs plus OCP 3.0 slot |
| Power supply | — | Up to 8x hot-swap 3000W or 3300W Titanium power supplies (N+N redundancy) |
| Management | — | Lenovo XClarity Controller 2 (XCC2) |
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