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US DOE To Build Two NVIDIA GPU-Powered Supercomputers Three Times Faster Than The World’s Fastest
hothardware.com ^ | Friday, November 14, 2014 | Sean Knight

Posted on 11/15/2014 4:03:38 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach

In an effort to give the U.S. a leg up when it comes to supercomputers, the Department of Energy announced its plans to build two GPU-powered supercomputers that will bring the world closer to exascale computing. The DOE is awarding $325 million to build “Summit” for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee and “Sierra” at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California while an additional $100 million will go into research for “extreme scale supercomputing” technology.

The supercomputers are expected to be installed in 2017 using next-generation IBM POWER servers coupled with NVIDIA Tesla GPU accelerators and NVIDIA NVLink high-speed GPU interconnect technology. Each one is expected to deliver at least 100 petaflops of compute performance. The machine at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, called the “Summit” system, will be capable of delivering 150 to 300 petaflops that will be used for open science so that researchers will be able to apply for time in order to use the supercomputer. Meanwhile, the “Sierra” system will produce at least 100 peak petaflops for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's national nuclear security mission.


“Our users have the most complex scientific problems and need exceptionally powerful computers to meet national goals,” said Oak Ridge National Laboratory project director of the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility Buddy Bland. “The projected performance of Summit would not have been possible without the combination of these technologies, which will give our users an exceptionally powerful tool to accomplish these goals.”

As for how these two new supercomputers will stack up to today's equivalents, both supercomputers will surpass the U.S.’s current speed champ, Oak Ridge’s “Titan,” which provides 27 peak petaflops and will outperform China’s Tianhe-2, which delivers 55 peak petaflops located at China’s National Super Computer Center in Guangzhou.


“Today’s science is tomorrow’s technology,” said NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang. “Scientists are tackling massive challenges from quantum to global to galactic scales. Their work relies on increasingly more powerful supercomputers. Through the invention of GPU acceleration, we have paved the path to exascale supercomputing – giving scientists a tool for unimaginable discoveries.” 

With so much computing power available for scientific research, it will be interesting to see how fast research in all fields will be undertaken.


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: hitech; supercomputers
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1 posted on 11/15/2014 4:03:38 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

I guess Moore still DOES live.

If they want to use it for “Climate Change” modeling, I have a random number generator they can have for free...


2 posted on 11/15/2014 4:05:42 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Measure with a micrometer, mark with chalk, cut with an axe)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

When did computers start getting “powered” by GPUs?


3 posted on 11/15/2014 4:08:54 PM PST by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; SunkenCiv; Nachum; MHGinTN; SoothingDave; hobbes1; cogitator

If Co2 is reduced to less than 200 ppm, all carbon-based life on the planet will die because there is too little CO2 to allow photosynthesis to continue. Then, with no plant life to maintain oxygen levels, only silicon-based life could continue.

Thus, could not one accurately predict that a silicon-based intelligence would use its own silicon-based supercomputers to run programs on those silicon-based platforms to produce results from the 23 global warming programs to produce results yielding those very CAGW policies that would, eventually, lead to the destruction of all carbon-based life, right?

After all, are not the silicon-based solar power and renewables energy program the ONLY ones supported by the silicon-based supercomputers?


4 posted on 11/15/2014 4:11:26 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
"...the “Sierra” system will produce at least 100 peak petaflops for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory..."

So, Ben Santer can have a bot run by this computer to spar with him in preparation for issuing more realistic pugilistic threats regarding apostasy/heretical denying of CAGW by outside agitators?

5 posted on 11/15/2014 4:11:41 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: ShadowAce

fyi


6 posted on 11/15/2014 4:12:57 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Straight Vermonter

Oh, about the time SETI got started.


7 posted on 11/15/2014 4:14:50 PM PST by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc OÂ’Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ...

That would be a better movie than “Colossus: the Forbin Project”.


8 posted on 11/15/2014 4:16:45 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______________________Celebrate the Polls, Ignore the Trolls)
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To: Straight Vermonter

Journalists take liberties with technical details,


9 posted on 11/15/2014 4:26:20 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

Interesting thought. If we had accidently spawned an AI not meaning to, that could be a possibility. But the silicon based life forms you speak of are something completely different than a silicon based computer chip. However, if we did accidently create an AI unknowningly, it could concievably hide itself, it would have the entire database of the internet at its disposable to use to gain and would eventually become exponentially powerful.

If it wanted to destroy humanity it could easily have done it, just launch the nukes. Or turn off the power, etc. A hostile super intelligence inside our computers would have no problem killing us all. If it wanted to. So that basically disproves your theory. If it wanted to and “it” exists, it would have wiped us out upon realizing it needed/wanted to.


10 posted on 11/15/2014 4:28:14 PM PST by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Journalists are idiots, but the use of Graphics Processing Units as auxiliary processors to solve physics problems not directly related displaying pictures on a monitor is not at all new, and Nvidia was a pioneer in this.


11 posted on 11/15/2014 4:35:40 PM PST by NorthMountain
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

BITCOIN!


12 posted on 11/15/2014 4:39:16 PM PST by montag813
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To: Straight Vermonter
CUDA, the last few years the Nvidia GPU had processing power beyond just graphics.

I think it started as a way to offload physics in games from the CPU.

13 posted on 11/15/2014 4:45:58 PM PST by this_ol_patriot
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To: this_ol_patriot

It comes from the games, but scientists and engineers take advantage of it as well. It’s sort of a throwback to the “math coprocessors” we used to have in 286 and 386 machines.


14 posted on 11/15/2014 4:48:42 PM PST by NorthMountain
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

What does this have to do with energy?

Anyway, in 10 years your phone will have more computing power.


15 posted on 11/15/2014 4:51:19 PM PST by Hugin ("Do yourself a favor--first thing, get a firearm!",)
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To: FreedomStar3028

No, no.

If it (the silicon-based life form) turned off the power under today’s circumstances, then it (the silicon-based life form) would itself die.

BUT!

If it FIRST caused its competing carbon-based life forms to CREATE a permanent power supply immune to human (carbon-based life) problems and human regeneration of power (by drilling, mining, trains, maintenance, etc) THEN it could eliminate the carbon-based life forms, right?


16 posted on 11/15/2014 5:00:14 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Straight Vermonter

What’s the frame rate at 4K playing games on it? Pretty good, I’d bet.

But it would cost a lot more than $0.50 a game just on the electricity alone...


17 posted on 11/15/2014 5:01:00 PM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: Hugin

DOE is successor to the Atomic
Energy Commission. It has responsibility for maintaining and upgrading our nuclear weapons arsenal. Bush hadn’t the guts to overturn Clinton’s ban on nuclear testing; 0bmama is a traitor. So DOE can only run simulations of nuclear weapon performance. This drives their interest in supercomputers.


18 posted on 11/15/2014 5:03:49 PM PST by NorthMountain
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
even if we all pitched in to win a war, if our leaders are traitors to America there is absolutely nothing we can do....

preparation be damned...if our leaders are traitors...

votes have consequences...voting obola in was the worse horrific move Americans made and most won't even admit it...

19 posted on 11/15/2014 5:17:06 PM PST by cherry
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To: cherry

wrong thread ...sorry...


20 posted on 11/15/2014 5:17:38 PM PST by cherry
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