[Fireuser]L-CSC based AMD FirePro Super Comuter top spot in Green500 list

[Final8ty]

[[Fireuser] Top Ranked Green500 energy efficient supercomputer is L-CSC based on AMD FirePro S9150

Today at Supercomputing 2014, the announcement that everyone was waiting for has finally come:
The Top Ranked Green500 energy efficient supercomputer in the world is: The L-CSC cluster, powered by AMD FirePro S9150 Server GPUs.

Each of the 160 ASUS ESC4000 G2S nodes of the new L-CSC cluster include four AMD FirePro S9150 server GPUs, for a total GPU peak of 3.25 petaFLOPS single precision and 1.62 petaFLOPS double precision performance.

With 5:27 GFLOPS per watt using 600 AMD FirePro S9150s, the GSI L-CSC cluster delivers 20% better efficiency than the top ranked cluster on the June 2014 Green500 List. The cluster is enabling Lattice Quantum Chromo Dynamics (Lattice QCD) computational research using one of the fastest OpenCL implementations for research applications in the world. Lattice QCD calculations are applicable to a range of studies in high energy and heavy ion physics

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http://fireuser.com/blog/announceme...er_w_amd_firepro_s9150_gpu_ranking_1_in_gree/

 

[3DVagabond]

The 1/2 dp capability of Hawaii showing up here. :thumbsup:

 

[ShintaiDK]

The Green500 site:
http://www.green500.org/news/green500-list-november-2014
http://www.green500.org/lists/green201411

It seems the software had a significant impact.

L-CSC achieved the first position on the November 2014 Green500 List with an impressive 5.27 gigaflops per watt. This system used Intel Ivy Bridge CPUs, AMD FirePro GPUs, and energy-efficient software design to achieve this feat

So its not measured from some standard I guess.

Also the list is a tad misleading, since the top10 is not even representive for the average super computer.

 

[AnandThenMan]

Average super computer?

 

[ShintaiDK]

Average super computer?

Speed wise. You can try tell me where this one ranks on the top 500.

 

[AnandThenMan]

This list is for perf/watt. You can make anything fast with enough hardware/processing cycles with power draw secondary. Impressive on the part of AMD I would have assumed Nvidia would beat out AMD here but admittedly I don't know much about the pro GPU stuff.

 

[el etro]

AMD Hawaii is very great for this.

 

[waffleironhead]

Speed wise. You can try tell me where this one ranks on the top 500.

Its rank 168

http://www.top500.org/list/2014/11/?page=2

 

[el etro]

Well, GCN was a heavily GPGPU-focused uarch, and Hawaii was made aiming the professional server/supercomputer markets, so nothing really exceed expectations here. Don't exceed but don't disappoint too.

 

[Silverforce11]

The Green500 site:

It seems the software had a significant impact.

Hawaii does have very impressive DP perf and efficiency.

 

[PPB]

Would kill to see comparisons between full dp hawaii and cut down, consumer hawaii cards in games and see if perf watt is improved. Im the one of many that thinks consumer cards should be gimped more in the dp front if it can allow you for more perf at the same power envelope