Japan Captures TOP500 Crown with Arm-Powered Supercomputer
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Re: Japan Captures TOP500 Crown with Arm-Powered Supercomputer
#2It’s sort of funny to watch the ISC event and see news of a machine with an exaop of AI performance, while the zoom presentation still can’t properly crop out the background.
Re: Japan Captures TOP500 Crown with Arm-Powered Supercomputer
#3Given that today's HPC architectures are mostly power constrained, and a majority of the FLOPS often come from GPUs (for their flop/watt ratios), this direction is not surprising.
ARM has been making major strides in the high performance area. The new AWS Graviton processors are pretty nice from what I have heard. And then there's the ARM in Mac. Yup and Julia will run on all of these!
While I say all of this, I should also point out that the top500 benchmark pretty much is not representative of most real-life workloads, and is largely based on your ability to solve the largest dense linear solve you possibly can - something almost no real application does.
(The website is down, so I haven't been able to look at the specs of the actual machine).
Re: Japan Captures TOP500 Crown with Arm-Powered Supercomputer
#4I can't help but think that the top minds from Cyrix aren't feeling both smug at the vindication and dismayed that they were just a little too ahead of the curve.
The writing was on the wall that RISC would win, but the x86 juggernaut appeared unbeatable.
Re: Japan Captures TOP500 Crown with Arm-Powered Supercomputer
#5Well the link is dead. But I am guessing it is from Fujitsu A64FX, a 512 bit SIMD extension for ARM.
Edit: Turns out I was right. May be this link is better.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/15869/new-1-supercomputer-fuj...
Re: Japan Captures TOP500 Crown with Arm-Powered Supercomputer
#6Can any of the HPC experts shed some light on how these ARM chips are better than their predecessors. I toured a small cluster in LANL, where the ARM chips ran the hottest and their cooling was the loudest.
Re: Japan Captures TOP500 Crown with Arm-Powered Supercomputer
#7Given that today's HPC architectures are mostly power constrained, and a majority of the FLOPS often come from GPUs (for their flop/watt ratios), this direction is not surprising. ARM has been making major strides in the high performance area. The new AWS Graviton processors are pretty nice from what I have heard. And then there's the ARM in Mac. Yup and Julia will run on all of these! While I say all of this, I shou…
Get ready for a surprise then: all those FLOPS are coming from the ARM cores.... This beast has no GPUs:
Re: Japan Captures TOP500 Crown with Arm-Powered Supercomputer
#8Not to be dismissive, but can't anyone "build" the biggest supercomputer by reserving enough instances at AWS or GCP? I'm sure that AWS or GCP would like to encourage this competition, but it seems a bit, well, boring.
Re: Japan Captures TOP500 Crown with Arm-Powered Supercomputer
#9Also a king in efficiency:
https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/11/22/arm-supercomputer-ca...
Re: Japan Captures TOP500 Crown with Arm-Powered Supercomputer
#10Given that today's HPC architectures are mostly power constrained, and a majority of the FLOPS often come from GPUs (for their flop/watt ratios), this direction is not surprising. ARM has been making major strides in the high performance area. The new AWS Graviton processors are pretty nice from what I have heard. And then there's the ARM in Mac. Yup and Julia will run on all of these! While I say all of this, I shou…
Worth noting that Fugaku has no GPU/accelerator; all the compute is located in-core (cpu). The core itself has some GPU-like qualities, of course, since it's more optimized for semi-uniform compute throughput than a "normal" CPU is.