It was not too long ago introduced that the Fugaku supercomputer, positioned at Riken in Japan, has scored the #1 place on the TOP500 supercomputer record, in addition to #1 positions in quite a few key supercomputer benchmarks. At the center of Fugaku isn’t any normal x86 processor, however one primarily based on Arm – particularly, the A64FX 48+4-core processor, which makes use of Arm’s Scalable Vector Extensions (SVE) to allow high-throughput FP64 compute. At 435 PetaFLOPs and seven.three million cores, Fugaku beat the previous #1 system by 2.8x in efficiency. Currently Fugaku has been used for COVID-19 associated analysis, akin to modelling monitoring charges or virus in liquid droplet dispersion.
The Fujitsu A64FX card is a singular piece of package, providing 48 compute cores and Four management cores, every with monumental bandwidth to maintain the 512-bit broad SVE models fed. The chip runs at 2.2 GHz, and may function in FP64, FP32, FP16 and INT8 modes for quite a lot of AI functions. There is 1 TB/sec of bandwidth from the 32 GB of HBM2 on every card, and since there are 4 management cores per chip, it runs by itself with none exterior host/system scenario.
It wasn’t ever clear if the A64FX module could be out there on a wider scale past supercomputer gross sales, nonetheless at the moment confirms that it’s, with the Japanese primarily based HPC Systems set to supply a Fujitsu PrimeHPC FX700 server that incorporates as much as eight A64FX nodes (at 1.eight GHz) inside a 2U type issue. Each be aware is paired with 512 GB of SSD storage and gigabit Ethernet capabilities, with room for enlargement (Infiniband EDR and many others). The present deal at HPC Systems is for a 2-node implementation, at a worth of ¥4,155,330 (~$39000 USD), with the deal operating to the top of the 12 months.
The A64FX card already has listed help for quantum chemical calculation software program Gaussian16, molecular dynamics software program AMBER, non-linear construction evaluation software program LS-DYNA. Other business packages within the construction and fluid evaluation fields will probably be approaching board sooner or later. There can also be Fujitsu’s Software Compiler Package v1.zero to allow builders to construct their very own software program.
Source: HPC Systems, PDF Flyer
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