The US has issued $258m in research contracts to develop the first Exascale supercomputer
The US has issued $258m in research contracts to develop the first Exascale supercomputer
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Now the US’ Department of Energy has announced that they will be delivering six research grants that are worth a total of $258 million over three years to six different companies. These companies are AMD, Intel, Nvidia, IBM, Cray Inc and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise.
Companies that receive this funding will need to provide a minimum of 40% of their total project costs, which means that the total investment in Exascale computing is $430 million. Â
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An Exascale computer is crazy fast, especially when considering the power of modern hardware, imagine AMD’s Radeon Vega, a GPU that offers roughly 12.5 TFLOPS of FP32 compute performance and 25 TFLOPS of FP16 compute performance. A single ExaFLOP of GPU performance would require a total of 40,000 Radeon Vega GPUs, assuming that every GPU runs at peak efficiency.Â
Right now, the world’s fastest supercomputer is the Sunway TaihuLight, which runs at a max speed of 93.01 PetaFLOPS (thousand TFLOPS), which is a long way from what is required to achieve the magic ExaFLOP performance milestone. A lot of innovation is required over the next few years to make Exascale computing happen, but a lot of what is learned will likely help companies develop more powerful cunsumer products moving forward.Â
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You can join the discussion on the US’ plans to create an Exascale Computer by 2021 on the OC3D Forums.Â
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The US has issued $258m in research contracts to develop the first Exascale supercomputer
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Now the US’ Department of Energy has announced that they will be delivering six research grants that are worth a total of $258 million over three years to six different companies. These companies are AMD, Intel, Nvidia, IBM, Cray Inc and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise.
Companies that receive this funding will need to provide a minimum of 40% of their total project costs, which means that the total investment in Exascale computing is $430 million. Â
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An Exascale computer is crazy fast, especially when considering the power of modern hardware, imagine AMD’s Radeon Vega, a GPU that offers roughly 12.5 TFLOPS of FP32 compute performance and 25 TFLOPS of FP16 compute performance. A single ExaFLOP of GPU performance would require a total of 40,000 Radeon Vega GPUs, assuming that every GPU runs at peak efficiency.Â
Right now, the world’s fastest supercomputer is the Sunway TaihuLight, which runs at a max speed of 93.01 PetaFLOPS (thousand TFLOPS), which is a long way from what is required to achieve the magic ExaFLOP performance milestone. A lot of innovation is required over the next few years to make Exascale computing happen, but a lot of what is learned will likely help companies develop more powerful cunsumer products moving forward.Â
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You can join the discussion on the US’ plans to create an Exascale Computer by 2021 on the OC3D Forums.Â
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