The CPU Paired with the OpenMetal H200

Q: What CPU is paired with the OpenMetal H200 GPU server?

Each OpenMetal H200 GPU server pairs the GPU with two Intel Xeon 6530P processors (Granite Rapids), giving 64 cores and 128 threads of host compute.

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The dual 6530P configuration runs at 2.3 GHz base / 4.1 GHz turbo with 144 MB of L3 cache per socket and 88 PCIe 5.0 lanes per processor. That high lane count is the point for a GPU server: it provides full-bandwidth PCIe 5.0 to the GPU and the NVMe data drive without contention.

The Granite Rapids cores carry Intel AMX and AVX-512, which accelerate CPU-side data preprocessing, tokenization, and embedding pipelines that feed the GPU. OpenMetal selected the 6530P to keep the host from bottlenecking the accelerator during data-loading-heavy training runs.

The server ships with 1TB of DDR5-6400 across 16 of 32 DIMM slots (upgradeable to 2TB), and Intel SGX is enabled on the CPU for application-level enclaves. The same dual-6530P host is used for both the H200 and the RP6000, so the comparison between them is purely about the accelerator.