TL;DR

Linus from LMG gets exclusive access to Canada’s newest $82 million academic supercomputer at Simon Fraser University, breaking down its jaw-dropping specs: 640 NVIDIA GPUs, dual EPYC Genoa CPUs with 1.152 TB RAM per node, HBM3 memory hitting 3.36 TB/s, and an 800 Gbit NDR interconnect fabric. The real star is its liquid-cooling setup—direct-die loops, Aquatherm tubing, 600 kW cooling distribution units and massive evaporative towers that reclaim up to 95% of the heat.

Beyond raw horsepower, the tour digs into 49 PB of spinning rust plus 2 PB of NVMe, security protocols, power delivery, and how this beast will supercharge AI, genomics, Large Hadron Collider analysis and more. It’s a deep dive into high-performance computing, cutting-edge data-center engineering, and the future of scientific discovery.

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