Summit – Oak Ridge National Laboratory's new supercomputer coming in 2018 (olcf.ornl.gov) 23 points by ajdecon 11y ago ↗ HN
[–] valarauca1 11y ago ↗ Looks like it'll be in the ball pack of 100 PetaFLOPS (~97.7 PFLOPS). Which should triple the Tianhe-2 (current #1) in computing power.
[–] fiatmoney 11y ago ↗ Power9 is an interesting choice vs. x86. Anyone know the reasoning? [–] ams6110 11y ago ↗ It's better for massive parallelization, which is normally what you want for large scale data crunching. More threads per core than Xeon. [–] davidmr 11y ago ↗ There are probably other reasons, but the NVLink interconnect is expected to show up on Power systems long before Intel, putting the GPUs much, much closer to system CPU and memory.This thing is going to be a beast. [–] bra-ket 11y ago ↗ ibm sales power
[–] ams6110 11y ago ↗ It's better for massive parallelization, which is normally what you want for large scale data crunching. More threads per core than Xeon.
[–] davidmr 11y ago ↗ There are probably other reasons, but the NVLink interconnect is expected to show up on Power systems long before Intel, putting the GPUs much, much closer to system CPU and memory.This thing is going to be a beast.
[–] ams6110 11y ago ↗ Let's hope IBM does a better job than they did on Blue Waters [–] mscman 11y ago ↗ I'm guessing ORNL isn't going to move the target as much as NCSA did for Blue Waters.
[–] mscman 11y ago ↗ I'm guessing ORNL isn't going to move the target as much as NCSA did for Blue Waters.
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[ 4.4 ms ] story [ 32.1 ms ] threadThis thing is going to be a beast.