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HPE Delivers World’s Largest Arm Supercomputer for U.S. Department of Energy

posted by janrinok on Thursday June 21 2018, @08:28PM   Printer-friendly
from the heavily-armed dept.

takyon writes:

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).

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  • (Score: 2) by Snotnose on Thursday June 21 2018, @10:18PM (2 children)

    by Snotnose (1623) on Thursday June 21 2018, @10:18PM (#696426)

    Need to name a graphics card, AI card, physics card, whatever Lotsa Electronic Guts, so we can read about the ARM and LEG supercomputer.

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  • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Thursday June 21 2018, @11:26PM

    by Gaaark (41) on Thursday June 21 2018, @11:26PM (#696465) Journal

    Best Overall Over-clocked Bsd Server

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    For TMB, lol.

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday June 21 2018, @11:57PM

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Thursday June 21 2018, @11:57PM (#696477) Journal

    Intel can name their upcoming discrete card Legendary End-user Graphics.

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