Crete Technical Specifications

Crete System Specifications

The Crete computer system is a custom build composed of two identical installations, each with the following components:

  • 15 Micron SB855 CXL Memory Devices
    • 512 GBytes of Memory per Device
    • AMD VU13P FPGA for Near Memory Compute Acceleration
  • 4 Micron SB855 CXL MPU Protocol Bridge Units
  • One XCONN XC50256 CXL 2.0 Switch Chassis
    • i.MX8 controller 
  • Four MiTAC Fox Creek Pass Servers (M50FCP2UR208) 
    • 5th Generation Xeon Platinum 8568CXL CPUs with CXL enabled
    • 1 TB of Micron host memory per server
      • DDR5, 4800 MT/s, MTC40F2046S1RC48BA1
    • 3.4 TB of SSD per server for storage
      • 2ea Micron7450 MTFDKCB1T9TFR
  • 4ea, XCONN CXL Card Expansion Chassis
  • One Dell PowerEdge R360 Management Server
  • Micron’s RAPID Multi-host Shared Memory Allocator
  • 100 GB 48port Ethernet Switch
  • Serial Console Manager provides access to host serial debug output
    • Lantronix SLC8016
  • 5ea, Rack Power Distribution Units
    • 4ea – 2U, 12V, 120A AC/DC power supplies
    • 1ea – 1U, 12V, 60A AC/DC power supply
  • 35 meters of MCIO CXL Cabling
    • 20 - 1m cables
    • 10 – 1.5m cables