Intel and Cray team up for super computer

[Phynaz]

Xeon Phi:

Intel was selected as the prime contractor and will work with Cray Inc. as the system integrator and manufacturer of these next-generation high-performance computing (HPC) systems for the ALCF. The largest system, to be called Aurora, is based on Intel's HPC scalable system framework and will be a next-generation Cray "Shasta" supercomputer. The Aurora system will be delivered in 2018 and have a peak performance of 180 petaflops, making it the world's most powerful system currently announced to date.

http://techreport.com/news/28092/xeon-phi-chips-will-fuel-180-petaflop-doe-supercomputer
http://newsroom.intel.com/community...-supercomputer-at-argonne-national-laboratory

 

[witeken]

IBM/Nvidia's Summit and Sierra will arrive earlier and have about the same performance.

http://www.extremetech.com/computin...cient-150-petaflop-supercomputers-for-the-doe

 

[Phynaz]

Let's hear it for naming a computer system after soda pop.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Let's hear it for naming a computer system after soda pop.

I'm waiting for a SuperComputer with some real "Moxie".

 

[crashtech]

Looks like a lot of Intel Inside above and beyond the Phi:

The framework combines next-generation Intel Xeon and Xeon Phi processors, Intel Omni-Path Fabric, innovative memory technologies, Intel® Silicon Photonics Technology and the Intel Lustre parallel file system – with the ability to efficiently integrate these components into a broad spectrum of HPC system solutions.

Might be a stretch to call Lustre "Intel Lustre," but OK.

 

[pm]

Let's hear it for naming a computer system after soda pop.

Rather than soda pop, when I hear the word "Shasta" I think of the rather impressive mountain in northern California:
http://themccloudblog.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Shasta-Road.jpg

I'd sort of forgotten that there was a soda named "Shasta". Looking at Google it turns out that the soda is named after the mountain too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shasta_(soft_drink)
"The company name is derived from Mount Shasta and an associated spring."

 

[kimmel]

IBM/Nvidia's Summit and Sierra will arrive earlier and have about the same performance.

http://www.extremetech.com/computin...cient-150-petaflop-supercomputers-for-the-doe

The two computers — Summit, which will be built at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Sierra, built at Lawrence Livermore — will have peak performance of around 150 petaflops when they’re completed in 2017-2018.

Aurora, the most powerful of the pair, is slated to deliver 180 petaflops when it's finished in 2018

Given this is multiple years away and timeframes are specified in years I don't think we know exactly when they will be completed. I also like how plus or minus the current #2 supercomputer in the world, or about 30 petaflops, is "approximately" the same performance.

 

[Phynaz]

Rather than soda pop, when I hear the word "Shasta" I think of the rather impressive mountain in northern California:
http://themccloudblog.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Shasta-Road.jpg

I'd sort of forgotten that there was a soda named "Shasta". Looking at Google it turns out that the soda is named after the mountain too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shasta_(soft_drink)
"The company name is derived from Mount Shasta and an associated spring."

Patrick, you're on Itanium, right? Did you do any work on Phi?

Good time to congratulate DMens, this is his baby. All grown up and heading off to school

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2426221

 

[pm]

Patrick, you're on Itanium, right? Did you do any work on Phi?

Good time to congratulate DMens, this is his baby. All grown up and heading off to school

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2426221

I used to work on Itanium and more recently I worked on Haswell Server (I did low-power validation) and now I'm off on some new undisclosed thing related to microservers. I've never work on Phi.

I talk to the Phi guys all the time on the phone though about low-power validation, and I had a couple of Phi's to play with before Christmas - we built a cryogenic immersed overclocked Haswell Server with a bunch of Phi's for a system that we built for an overclocking contest. I keep mearning to post up some photos of the cryogenic rig we built using Fluorinert because I've never seen anyone do quite what we did the way that we did it. But definitely I walked away from that experience with the knowledge Phi's are really pretty neat to play around with... the way that they work is pretty slick.

 

[MongGrel]

I haven't even heard the word Cray personally in decades myself I guess, I'll have to see what they are doing.

Still making supercomputers, I guess.

 

[witeken]

Aurora is more awesome than I thought.

10nm Knights Hill (unless typo since that's 3rd gen, but Knights Hill should be available by then). Up to half an exaflops.

 

[NTMBK]

10nm Knights Hill (unless typo since that's 3rd gen, but Knights Hill should be available by then).

It is kind of accurate- KH will be the 3rd gen coprocessor, but 2nd gen processor.

Quite jealous, would love to get my hands on a socketed KL to play around with.