TSUBAME3.0: A Green, Accelerated, Big-Data Supercomputer
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Event Type
Workshop
Applications
Exascale
Government Strategies, Programs, and Funding
HPC Center Planning and Operations
TimeMonday, November 13th10:15am -
10:30am
Location708
DescriptionGlobal Scientific Information and Computing center
(GSIC) at Tokyo Institute of Technology has started the
operation of the brand-new supercomputer, called
TSUBAME3.0 in August 2017. The proposition submitted by
SGI Japan has been adopted in January; since then, GSIC,
SGI Japan and related vendors have cooperatively
promoted preparations towards the operation start. The
target applications area of TSUBAME3.0 is not limited to
typical HPC area, but includes big-data and artificial
intelligence (AI) area. The main components of the
system are 540 compute nodes, which are customized
version of SGI ICE XA. The total numbers of CPUs and
GPUs are 1,080 and 2,160, respectively. The total
performance is 12.15PFlops in double precision and
47.2PFlops in half precision (or more), which is an
expression of floating point values in 16bit, which is
expected to be useful in big-data and AI area.
TSUBAME3.0 has excellent power efficiency, largely owing
to GPU accelerators of the latest generation. The
power-performance ratio, 14.11 GFlops, won world No.1 in
the Green500 List in June 2017.
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