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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday November 19 2020, @08:59AM   Printer-friendly
from the topping-the-charts-at-#2 dept.

TOP500 Expands Exaflops Capacity Amidst Low Turnover

The entry level to the list moved up to 1.32 petaflops on the High Performance Linpack (HPL) benchmark, a small increase from 1.23 petaflops recorded in the June 2020 rankings. In a similar vein, the aggregate performance of all 500 systems grew from 2.22 exaflops in June to just 2.43 exaflops on the latest list. Likewise, average concurrency per system barely increased at all, growing from 145,363 cores six months ago to 145,465 cores in the current list.

There were, however, a few notable developments in the top 10, including two new systems, as well as a new highwater mark set by the top-ranked Fugaku supercomputer. Thanks to additional hardware, Fugaku grew its HPL performance to 442 petaflops, a modest increase from the 416 petaflops the system achieved when it debuted in June 2020. More significantly, Fugaku increased its performance on the new mixed precision HPC-AI benchmark to 2.0 exaflops, besting its 1.4 exaflops mark recorded six months ago. These represents the first benchmark measurements above one exaflop for any precision on any type of hardware.

[...] At number five is Selene, an NVIDIA DGX A100 SuperPOD installed in-house at NVIDIA Corp. It was listed as number seven in June but has doubled in size, allowing it to move up the list by two positions. The system is based on AMD EPYC processors with NVIDIA's new A100 GPUs for acceleration. Selene achieved 63.4 petaflops on HPL as a result of the upgrade.

[...] A new supercomputer, known as the JUWELS Booster Module, debuts at number seven on the list. The Atos-built BullSequana machine was recently installed at the Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ) in Germany. It is part of a modular system architecture and a second Xeon based JUWELS Module is listed separately on the TOP500 at position 44. These modules are integrated by using the ParTec Modulo Cluster Software Suite. The Booster Module uses AMD EPYC processors with NVIDIA A100 GPUs for acceleration similar to the number five Selene system. Running by itself the JUWELS Booster Module was able to achieve 44.1 HPL petaflops, which makes it the most powerful system in Europe.

[...] The second new system at the top of the list is Dammam-7, which is ranked 10th. It is installed at Saudi Aramco in Saudi Arabia and is the second commercial supercomputer in the current top 10. The HPE Cray CS-Storm systems uses Intel Gold Xeon CPUs and NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs. It reached 22.4 petaflops on the HPL benchmark.

The Green500 list is led by a smaller NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD system at 26.2 gigaflops/Watt (ranked #171 on the TOP500).

#1 system: 415.5 petaflops Rmax (June 2020), 442 petaflops (November 2020)
#10 system: 21.2 petaflops (June), 22.4 petaflops (Nov)
#100 system: 2.8 petaflops (June), 3.15 petaflops (Nov)
#500 system: 1.23 petaflops (June), 1.32 petaflops (Nov)

Previously: Fujitsu's ARM-based Fugaku Supercomputer Leads June 2020 TOP500 List at 415 PetaFLOPs


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New #1 Supercomputer: Fujitsu's Fugaku

High performance computing is now at a point in its existence where to be the number one, you need very powerful, very efficient hardware, lots of it, and lots of capability to deploy it. Deploying a single rack of servers to total a couple of thousand cores isn't going to cut it. The former #1 supercomputer, Summit, is built from 22-core IBM Power9 CPUs paired with NVIDIA GV100 accelerators, totaling 2.4 million cores and consuming 10 MegaWatts of power. The new Fugaku supercomputer, built at Riken in partnership with Fujitsu, takes the top spot on the June 2020 #1 list, with 7.3 million cores and consuming 28 MegaWatts of power.

The new Fugaku supercomputer is bigger than Summit in practically every way. It has 3.05x cores, it has 2.8x the score in the official LINPACK tests, and consumes 2.8x the power. It also marks the first time that an Arm based system sits at number one on the top 500 list.

Also at NYT.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 19 2020, @09:42AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 19 2020, @09:42AM (#1079135)

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    • (Score: 2) by inertnet on Thursday November 19 2020, @11:19AM (1 child)

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by looorg on Thursday November 19 2020, @01:41PM (1 child)

    by looorg (578) on Thursday November 19 2020, @01:41PM (#1079167)

    2020 nov
    #1 Fugaku (japan). 7,630,848 cores; 442,010.0 rmax; 537,212.0 rpeak; 29,899 power (kW)
    https://www.top500.org/lists/top500/2020/11/ [top500.org]

    2013 nov
    #1 Tianhe-2A (china). 3,120,000 cores; 33,867.7 Rmax; 54,902.4 Rpeak; 17,808 Power (kW)
    https://www.top500.org/lists/top500/2013/11/ [top500.org]
    (nov 2020 this system is ranked 6 in it's current form)

    2010 nov
    #1 Tianhe-1a (china). 186,368 cores; 2,566.0 rmax; 4,701.0 rpeak; 4,040 power (kW)
    https://www.top500.org/lists/top500/2010/11/ [top500.org]
    (nov 2020 this system is ranked 146 in it's current form)

    2000 nov
    #1 ASCI White (usa). 8,192 cores; 4,938.0 rmax (GFlops/s); 12,288.0 rpeak (GFlops/s); ?
    https://www.top500.org/lists/top500/2000/11/ [top500.org]
    (last seen on the list in june 2007 when it was at 157)

    1993 nov
    #1 Numerical Wind Tunnel (japan). 140 cores; 124.0 rmax (GFlops/s); 235.8 rpeak (GFlops/s); ?
    https://www.top500.org/lists/top500/1993/11/ [top500.org]
    (I think it dropped out from the list in june 2002 at rank 240)

    (*) GFlops/s to TFlops/s switch for Rmax and Rpeak in June 2005
    (*) power consumption wasn't recorded until June 2002

    • (Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday November 19 2020, @02:15PM

      by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Thursday November 19 2020, @02:15PM (#1079181) Journal

      What was the rule of thumb, about 1000x improvement in 11 years? That's dead. I'll have to check some of the other lists but it looks like the % improvement from June 2020 to November 2020 (#100/#500/aggregate) is one of the lowest.

      I would ignore Rpeak and just look at Rmax which is the oft-quoted figure.

      29.9 MW is getting uncomfortably high for an exascale-class supercomputer, although it's not unexpected. We might see 50 MW soon. Hopefully we see a trend towards reduction in power consumption after the 1-2 exaflops monsters are pushed out (for national prestige?). Monolithic 3D chips and more extensive use of photonics could help.

      It almost seems like Nvidia "cheated" its way to the top of the Green500 list by splitting off a single $200k SuperPOD unit [anandtech.com] from TOP500 #5 "Selene" and running that by itself, although "Selene" is respectable in its own right, getting #5 on both lists.

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  • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday November 19 2020, @03:17PM (3 children)

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Thursday November 19 2020, @03:17PM (#1079203) Journal

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  • (Score: 2) by stretch611 on Thursday November 19 2020, @07:59PM (2 children)

    by stretch611 (6199) on Thursday November 19 2020, @07:59PM (#1079400)

    Where is the field that shows how much linux is dominating the list?

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    • (Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Thursday November 19 2020, @08:14PM (1 child)

      by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Thursday November 19 2020, @08:14PM (#1079406) Journal

      https://www.top500.org/statistics/list/ [top500.org]

      November 2020

      Operating System Family

      Linux - 100% (500)

      Operating System System Share

      Linux - 53.4% (267)
      CentOS - 20% (100)
      Cray Linux Environment - 6% (30)
      bullx SCS - 3% (15)
      Red Hat Enterprise Linux - 2% (10)
      RHEL 7.6 - 1.2% (6)
      RHEL 7.7 - 1.2% (6)
      Linux/TOSS - 1.2% (6)
      CentOS Linux 7 - 1% (5)
      SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 - 1% (5)
      Others - 10% (50)

      Operating System Performance Share

      Linux - 22.9% (557.27 petaflops)
      CentOS - 11.9% (289.62 petaflops)
      Cray Linux Environment - 6.1% (148.79 petaflops)
      bullx SCS - 2.6% (62.7 petaflops)
      Red Hat Enterprise Linux - 24.3% (590.1 petaflops)
      RHEL 7.6 - 2.4% (58.14 petaflops)
      RHEL 7.7 - 1.7% (41.74 petaflops)
      Linux/TOSS - 0.6% (14.12 petaflops)
      CentOS Linux 7 - 3.3% (79.74 petaflops)
      SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 - 0.8% (19.61 petaflops)
      Others - 23.4% (568.53 petaflops)

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      • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 20 2020, @02:36PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 20 2020, @02:36PM (#1079734)

        all linux are equal. but some linux are more equal than others.

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