{"id":20,"date":"2026-06-14T16:32:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T16:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdp.in\/gpu-mart\/product\/rdp-hpc-starter-4-node-cluster\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T01:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T01:48:07","slug":"draco-4-node-l40s-hpc-cluster","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/rdp.in\/gpu-mart\/product\/draco-4-node-l40s-hpc-cluster\/","title":{"rendered":"DRACO 4-Node L40S HPC Cluster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The DRACO 4-Node L40S HPC Cluster is a turnkey 4-node HPC cluster that pairs CPU-forward compute with GPU acceleration \u2014 768 AMD EPYC cores across 4 nodes plus 16\u00d7 L40S accelerators (768 GB GDDR6), wired with a low-latency InfiniBand fabric. It runs traditional FP64\/MPI HPC and mixed AI on one cluster, on-premises, in INR, on a GST invoice.<\/p>\n<p>Engineered for engineering, research and analytics teams that need real HPC throughput with AI on the side, it is delivered racked, cabled, scheduled and validated as a single system \u2014 RDP sizes the nodes, fabric, parallel storage, scheduler and cooling, with one warranty and one support contract.<\/p>\n<h3>Key highlights<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>768 EPYC cores across 4 nodes<\/strong> \u2014 serious CPU throughput for FP64, MPI and memory-bound HPC.<\/li>\n<li><strong>16\u00d7 L40S \u00b7 768 GB GDDR6<\/strong> \u2014 GPU acceleration for AI inference, training and visualisation alongside HPC.<\/li>\n<li><strong>InfiniBand NDR fabric<\/strong> \u2014 low-latency, high-bandwidth interconnect for tightly-coupled MPI jobs and collectives.<\/li>\n<li><strong>3 TB DDR5 ECC + 120 TB NVMe parallel NVMe<\/strong> \u2014 large memory and a high-throughput parallel filesystem for datasets and scratch.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Scheduler-ready, turnkey<\/strong> \u2014 delivered with Slurm\/Kubernetes, validated; one SKU, one warranty.<\/li>\n<li><strong>On-prem data sovereignty<\/strong> \u2014 codes, data and models stay in-house; DPDP-friendly, air-gappable.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Make-in-India OEM<\/strong> \u2014 predictable INR pricing, GST tax invoice (HSN 8471), pan-India onsite support, GeM-procurable.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Scale path<\/strong> \u2014 grow node count and step up the accelerator (H200) as workloads demand.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>AI workload fit (what it actually runs \u2014 honestly)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>HPC + simulation (primary):<\/strong> FP64\/MPI workloads \u2014 CFD, FEA, molecular dynamics, EDA, risk and Monte-Carlo \u2014 across 768 cores.<\/li>\n<li><strong>AI inference &amp; visualisation:<\/strong> the L40S is an Ada-generation accelerator strong at inference, rendering and mixed-precision AI; serve and fine-tune mid-size models alongside HPC jobs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>RAG &amp; agentic:<\/strong> production AI services co-located with HPC for engineering and research teams.<\/li>\n<li><em>Engineering note:<\/em> the L40S (48 GB, no NVLink) is built for inference, visualisation and mid-size AI \u2014 not large-model pre-training. For heavy training, choose the H200 node variant or a GPU Server\/SuperCluster. This cluster&#8217;s strength is balanced CPU-HPC + accelerated AI.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>AI workload positioning<\/h3>\n<p>This sits at the <strong>HPC + applied-AI<\/strong> stage: a cluster for teams whose primary workload is simulation\/analytics with AI alongside. With 768 CPU cores and 16 accelerators on an InfiniBand fabric, it is sized to <strong>sustain<\/strong> real HPC throughput plus AI inference \u2014 where renting equivalent cloud HPC continuously gets expensive.<\/p>\n<h3>Industry use cases<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Manufacturing &amp; automotive<\/strong> \u2014 CFD\/FEA simulation plus AI-assisted design.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Energy &amp; engineering<\/strong> \u2014 reservoir, structural and process simulation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>BFSI<\/strong> \u2014 risk, Monte-Carlo and quantitative analytics with AI.<\/li>\n<li><strong>EDA &amp; semiconductors<\/strong> \u2014 chip design verification at scale.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Research &amp; academia<\/strong> \u2014 a shared HPC + AI cluster for departments.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Life sciences<\/strong> \u2014 molecular dynamics and bioinformatics pipelines.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Performance \u2014 and how to be sure<\/h3>\n<p>We don&#8217;t publish inflated peak numbers. The honest picture: 768 EPYC cores and 16\u00d7 L40S on InfiniBand are sized for converged HPC + applied AI. <strong>Want certainty? Request a free benchmark of your HPC codes and AI models, including an MPI scaling test, on this exact configuration before you buy<\/strong>; we&#8217;ll send back real performance and scaling efficiency.<\/p>\n<h3>Series &amp; upgrade path<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>DRACO<\/strong> (flagship cluster tier) \u2014 <em>this<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Node ladder:<\/strong> 4 \u2192 8 \u2192 16 \u2192 32+ nodes; <strong>accelerator ladder:<\/strong> L40S (inference\/viz) \u2192 H200 (training).<\/li>\n<li><strong>When to step up:<\/strong> for large-model training, move to the H200 node variant, GPU Servers, or a rack-scale system \u2014 talk to an architect.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>On-prem vs cloud \u2014 the TCO case<\/h3>\n<p>For sustained HPC, owning beats renting: a continuously-running cloud HPC cluster adds up fast, and on-prem removes egress and keeps codes and data in-house. RDP pricing is fixed in INR with a GST input-credit-eligible invoice \u2014 ask for a <strong>3-year TCO comparison<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3>Software &amp; day-one readiness<\/h3>\n<p>Ships <strong>pre-integrated and validated<\/strong>: NVIDIA driver, CUDA, cuDNN, NCCL, MPI (OpenMPI\/MPICH), the InfiniBand stack, Slurm and\/or Kubernetes, with common HPC toolchains, PyTorch and vLLM \/ Triton on a supported Linux LTS. Optional managed cluster operations and an HPC\/MLOps platform.<\/p>\n<h3>Power, cooling &amp; rack integration<\/h3>\n<p>A 4-node cluster \u2014 RDP scopes rack power, cooling (air or liquid), the InfiniBand fabric and floor\/rack requirements in the design. <em>(Exact power, BTU, airflow and rack-depth figures confirmed on the build sheet.)<\/em> Full out-of-band management across the cluster.<\/p>\n<h3>Deployment, warranty &amp; support<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Made to order<\/strong>, integrated, racked, cabled and burned-in in India; lead time confirmed at quote.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Delivered as one system:<\/strong> nodes, fabric switches, cabling, PDUs, parallel storage, and the full HPC\/AI software stack.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Onsite warranty + AMC<\/strong> with pan-India coverage, cluster-level support and an RMA\/escalation path <em>(exact terms confirmed at quote)<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Why RDP<\/h3>\n<p>14 years of Make-in-India infrastructure and <strong>300,000+ devices shipped<\/strong>. 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