AMD's EPYC Milan and Nvidia's "Volta-Next" GPUs Combine To Power Shasta Supercomputer

[PaulAlcorn]

AMD's next-next-gen 7nm++ EPYC Milan processors with the Zen 3 microarchitecture, along with Nvidia's next-gen Volta-next GPUs, will power one of the worlds fastest supercomputers.

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[LordConrad]

But can it... play Solitaire?

 

[johnynavvaro]

But can it even turn on?

 

[fevanson]

The real question is, can it run Crysis?

 

[boju]

Might run The DeLorean. What would you do >

 

[derekullo]

All hail our new computer overlords

 

[Lucky_SLS]

Damn those cash infused departments! Spending top dollar and also being early adopters!

 

[AgentLozen]

What do you think each one of those blades costs? $20k? $40k?

 

[shrapnel_indie]

What exactly will the DOE do with that much power?

<Poof> a few men jump out of the sub-etha, roughing you up a bit and telling you to never ask that again...

 

[bruceghayes]

Will it be obsolete in 5-10 years (Moore's law now says silicon transistors can only keep shrinking for another 5 years), and the DOE have to replace it?

 

[IR240474]

WOW.... Not sure if its powerful enough for Solitaire, ya might need just one more DIMM in there.

 

[Feldmarshall]

DOE has a history of running AMD based supercomputers by CRAY. Jaguar (located at Oak Ridge Laboratory) was at some point upgraded thanks to AMDs long support of the socket. The computer was stopped, each blade was opened and all Opteron processors were switched to latest 4-core versions (I believe from mix of 1- and 2-core). And it cost only the price of the processors - all other hardware stayed the same. With the price of custom super-computing hardware they must still remember how nice the columns added up on that .

By the way - if you are really interested in what DOE runs on those supercomputers see https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/leadership-science/ - here is a list of projects running at one of DOE computing centers.

 

[shrapnel_indie]

By the way - if you are really interested in what DOE runs on those supercomputers see https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/leadership-science/ - here is a list of projects running at one of DOE computing centers.

That's the official list anyway.

 

[bit_user]

Damn those cash infused departments! Spending top dollar and also being early adopters!

Yeah, it helps being in charge of the nation's nuclear arsenal.

This is the same department that its head (Rick Perry) said during a Presidential primary debate that he wanted to de-fund it. Except he couldn't even remember its name.

I guess he now has a better appreciate for its mission, given that his FY2019 budget request actually contains a $500M increase.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Energy#Budget

 

[bit_user]

Since the supercomputer market seems to like eye-catching cabinet art, I wonder if/when they'll finally jump on the bandwagon and add RGB lighting.