Nvidia/IBM to Build Two Coral 100+ Petaflop Supercomputers in 2017
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Today’s Information is Embargoed Embargo Date is Friday, Nov 14, 2014, 10 am EST
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U.S. to Build Two Flagship Supercomputers
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US to Build Two Flagship Supercomputers
Major Step Forward on the Path to Exascale
150-300 PFLOPS Peak Performance
IBM POWER9 CPU + NVIDIA Volta GPU
NVLink High Speed Interconnect
40 TFLOPS per Node, >3,400 Nodes
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SUMMIT SIERRA
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Just 4 nodes in Summit would make the Top500 list of
supercomputers today
Similar Power as Titan 5-10x Faster 1/5th the Size
150 PF = 3M Laptops
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Built for Grand Scientific Challenges
Fusion Energy Role of material disorder, statistics, and fluctuations in nanoscale materials and systems.
Combustion Combustion simulations to enable the next gen diesel/bio- fuels to burn more efficiently
Climate Change Study climate change adaptation and mitigation scenarios; realistically represent detailed features
Nuclear Energy Unprecedented high-fidelity radiation transport calculations for nuclear energy applications
Biofuels Search for renewable and more efficient energy sources
Astrophysics Radiation transport – critical to astrophysics, laser fusion, atmospheric dynamics, and medical imaging
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POWER is the
PROBLEM
150 PF CPU-only System would require half the power of Las Vegas
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IBM POWER CPU Most Powerful Serial Processor
NVIDIA NVLink Fastest CPU-GPU Interconnect
NVIDIA Volta GPU Most Powerful Parallel Processor
Accelerated Computing 5x Higher Energy Efficiency
80-200 GB/s
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VOLTA GPU Featuring NVLINK and Stacked Memory
NVLINK GPU high speed interconnect 80-200 GB/s
3D Stacked Memory 4x Higher Bandwidth (~1 TB/s) 3x Larger Capacity 4x More Energy Efficient per bit
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NVLink High-Speed GPU
Interconnect
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X86, ARM64, POWER CPU
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PASCAL GPU KEPLER GPU
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Leading the Way to Exascale Accelerated Systems on Path to Exascale
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Exascale Supercomputers Required to Address Future Scientific Challenges
Comprehensive Earth System Model at 1 km scale, enabling modeling of cloud convection and ocean eddies.
Coupled simulation of entire cells at molecular, genetic, chemical and biological levels.
First-principles simulation of combustion for new high-efficiency, low-emission engines.
Predictive calculations for thermonuclear and core-collapse supernovae, allowing confirmation of theoretical models.
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Summary
The U.S. is building the two flagship supercomputers, 3x faster than today’s fastest system. Higher performance supercomputers are necessary to enable new waves of scientific innovation and discovery, such as delivering safe fusion energy, combating climate change, finding new alternative energy, and enabling better, safer consumer products. IBM & NVIDIA are inventing new technologies that will enable exascale computing