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lapfog_1

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3. DOe and IBM are installing these new GPUs in the next three

Reply to steve2470 (Original post)

Fri Dec 22, 2017, 03:50 PM

Dec 2017

fastest Supercomputers in the world... the so-called CORAL project (Collaboration Oak Ridge Argonne Livermore).

https://www.hpcwire.com/2017/12/06/ibm-begins-power9-rollout-backing-doe-google/

Up to 6 of the Nvidia plus 2 PowerPC nextgen CPUs, lots of memory, and NVLink (Nvidia's proprietary replacement for PCIe) AND PCIe Gen4 (next gen PCIe) all in a 2U water chilled (external chilled water required) server.

I think Livermore is installing like 230+ racks of these servers plus next gen Mellanox Infiniband communications between servers. 125+ Pflops at 64 bit floating point. At 16 bit "AI" or "deep learning" should be close to .5 exaflops.

And they are still known as GPUs and not math co-processors because they only do certain floating point math operations at speed...

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Nvidia's hugely powerful $3,000 Titan V PC GPU is fastest ever [View all] steve2470 Dec 2017 OP

They need to rename 'GPU's htuttle Dec 2017 #1

vector matrix multiplication unit just rolls off the tongue. nt. Voltaire2 Dec 2017 #2

DOe and IBM are installing these new GPUs in the next three lapfog_1 Dec 2017 #3

True, but Graphics Processing Unit doesn't really capture it either, nowadays htuttle Dec 2017 #4