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Russia Boasts Compact Deploy-Anywhere Supercomputer
Russia’s Ruselectronics Group, part of the state-owned Rostec corporation, has purportedly developed a compact “supercomputer” for defense applications with 2.2 peak petaflops of computing power, matched by 2.2 petabytes of data storage.
Announced by the Rostec press service today (Nov. 23), the 1.9 x 1.35 x 1 (m) compute module is said to provide record capacity for the space industry as well as the defense and industrial complex, using 40 percent less electricity than comparable solutions.
The system relies on immersive liquid cooling modules that enable container-based computing outside the traditionally equipped datacenter. This cooling system features a low noise level, dust and moisture protection, and is fire-safe, Rostec added.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday November 25 2018, @02:35AM
The top GPUs do about 20 teraflops, right? So it's about 110 GPUs in a box.
The article compares it to Nvidia's DGX-2, which contains 16 Tesla V100 GPUs. They say DGX-2 does 2 petaflops. But that's 2 petaflops of low precision "tensor" core performance. To get 2 petaflops of FP32, you need about 133 Tesla V100s.
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