The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) this week declared its new supercomputers that will join profound learning and reproduction processing abilities. The Perlmutter framework will utilize AMD’s top-of-the-range 64-center EPYC 7763 processors just as Nvidia’s A100 figure GPUs to push out up to 180 PetaFLOPS of ‘standard’ execution and up to four ExaFLOPS of AI execution. Everything considered, that makes it the second-quickest supercomputer on the planet behind Japan’s Fugaku.
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“Perlmutter will empower a bigger scope of utilizations than past NERSC frameworks and is the principal NERSC supercomputer planned from the begin to address the issues of both recreation and information investigation,” said Sudip Dosanjh, chief or NERSC.
Stage 1 highlights 12 heterogenous cupboards containing 1,536 hubs. Every hub packs one 64-center AMD EPYC 7763 ‘Milan’ CPU with 256GB of DDR4 SDRAM and four Nvidia A100 40GB GPUs associated through NVLink. The framework utilizes a 35PB all-streak stockpiling subsystem with 5TB/s of throughput.
The principal period of NERSC’s Perlmutter can convey 60 FP64 PetaFLOPS of execution for recreations, and 3.823 FP16 ExaFLOPS of execution (with sparsity) for examination and profound learning. The framework was introduced recently and is currently being conveyed.
While 60 FP64 PetaFLOPS places Perlmutter into the Top 10 rundown of the world’s most remarkable supercomputers, the framework doesn’t stop there.
Stage 2 will add 3,072 AMD EPYC 7763-based CPU-just hubs with 512GB of memory per hub that will be devoted to reenactment. FP64 execution for the subsequent stage will associate with 120 PFLOPS.
At the point when the second period of Perlmutter is sent not long from now, the consolidated FP64 execution of the supercomputer will add up to 180 PFLOPS, which will put it in front of Summit, the world’s second most impressive supercomputer. In any case, it will in any case trail Japan’s Fugaku, which tips the scales at 442 PFLOPs. In the meantime, notwithstanding considerable throughput for recreations, Perlmutter will offer almost four ExaFLOPS of FP16 throughput for AI applications.
