HPE is building the world's first petascale supercomputer powered by ARM processors. It will reach 2.3 petaflops of peak performance:
PALO ALTO, Calif., June 18, 2018 – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced its collaboration with Sandia National Laboratories and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to deliver the world's largest Arm supercomputer. As part of the Vanguard program, Astra, the new Arm-based system, will be used by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to run advanced modeling and simulation workloads for addressing areas such as national security, energy and science.
[...] Astra will be deployed at Sandia National Laboratories and will run on the HPE Apollo 70. This purpose-built HPC platform is based on the Cavium ThunderX2 Arm processor. Astra is comprised of over 145,000 cores in 2,592 dual-processor servers and offers greater density with four compute nodes in a 2U form factor.
The supercomputer will draw 1.2 MW, giving a possible efficiency of 1.92 gigaflops per Watt. That's only good enough to put it around #131 on the November 2017 Green500 list (the top 5 systems exceed 14 gigaflops per Watt).
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 21 2018, @08:48PM (4 children)
https://www.top500.org/news/sandia-to-install-first-petascale-supercomputer-powered-by-arm-processors/ [top500.org]
I wonder what the sustained performance in memory intensive application will be ?
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday June 21 2018, @08:52PM (3 children)
That article is linked in the summary.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 21 2018, @09:30PM
dont blame me I am stoned
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 21 2018, @09:33PM (1 child)
oh and I forgot to apologize.... thanks for the tankless work you do
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday June 21 2018, @11:56PM
That's cool. I was lazy on this one.
Enjoy your weed (esp. if ur Canadian).
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