SkipJack Hardware Summary

The Skipjack cluster is a high-performance computing (HPC) system operated by ARCH at Johns Hopkins University. As of 2026, the Skipjack Cluster consists of:

  • 8,960 CPU cores across 80 CPU nodes

  • 15 8-way nodes with NVIDIA A100 (80GB) GPUs

  • 32 4-way nodes with NVIDIA H100 GPUs

  • 6 4-way nodes with NVIDIA H200 GPUs

  • 8 8-way nodes with NVIDIA L40 GPUs

  • 16 8-way nodes with NVIDIA B200 GPUs

  • 1 8-way nodes with NVIDIA B300 GPU

The following table summarizes the current node types available in the DSAI cluster:

Partition

# Nodes

CPU Cores / Node

Memory Per Core (MB)

GPUs Per Node

Time Limit

Features

CPU

80

112

4,000

N/A

72:00:00

Intel Xeon Platinum 8480+ 56 Core

l40s

8

128

6,000

8

72:00:00

Nvidia L40S 48GB GPUs, AMD EPYC 9534 64 Core

a100

15

96

10,000

8

72:00:00

Nvidia A100 80GB GPUs, AMD EPYC 7443 24 Core

h100

16

128

12,000

4

72:00:00

Nvidia H100 85GB GPUs, AMD EPYC 9534 64 Core

h100-NVL

16

128

12,000

4

72:00:00

Nvidia H100-NVL 100GB GPUs, AMD EPYC 9534 64 Core

h200

6

128

12,000

4

72:00:00

Nvidia H200 150GB GPUs, AMD EPYC 9555 64 Core

b200

16

128

16,000

8

72:00:00

Nvidia B200 190GB GPUs, INTEL(R) XEON(R) PLATINUM 8592+

b300

1

128

24,000

8

72:00:00

Nvidia B300 285GB GPUs, Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6767P

Total system core count: 18,464 cores across 158 nodes Total system GPU count: 64 L40S, 120 A100, 64 H100, 64 H100-NVL GPUs, 24 H200 GPUs, 128 B200 GPUs, 8 B300 GPUs

Note

Node specifications may change as new hardware is integrated into the cluster.