[Beowulf] Frontier Announcement

[miroslav.shaltev at shaltev.de]

On Wed, 8 May 2019 06:54:38 +1000
Lance Wilson via Beowulf <beowulf at beowulf.org> wrote:

Hi @ all,

> The other community that will struggle is AI/ML as they are pushing
> very hard into the CUDA space.

yes, however

https://rocm.github.io/tensorflow.html

There are some benchmarks out there which look very promising.

Cheers,
miroslav


> It's very interesting to see the design choices! At least in the
> materials characterization space most of the code is based on CUDA,
> so this system will be useless for that community except for the
> cpus. Almost none of the software development is done using AMD, so
> processor optimisations either. It's good to see more competition but
> I'm not sure it's actually helping the researchers.
> 
> The other community that will struggle is AI/ML as they are pushing
> very hard into the CUDA space. There are very researchers that I've
> seen at SuperComputing or locally that are using cpus for their
> research. AMD gpus don't appear to have any capability in this area
> and will need to do an awful lot to catch up. It seems a lot of money
> to be spent on a limited use case machine.
> 
> I'd be keen to hear others experiences with AMD cpu and gpu systems?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Lance
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> 
> On Wed, 8 May 2019 at 06:44, Jörg Saßmannshausen <
> sassy-work at sassy.formativ.net> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Prentice,
> >
> > that looks interesting and I hope it means I will finally get the
> > neutron structure which was measured last year there! :-)
> >
> > On a more serious note: I think it is interesting that they are
> > using AMD for
> > both the CPUs and GPUs. It sounds at least very fast of what they
> > want to build, lets hope their design will work as planned as well.
> >
> > All the best from London
> >
> > Jörg
> >
> > Am Dienstag, 7. Mai 2019, 10:32:42 BST schrieb Prentice Bisbal via
> > Beowulf:  
> > > ORNL's Frontier System has been announced:
> > >
> > >  
> > https://www.hpcwire.com/2019/05/07/cray-amd-exascale-frontier-at-oak-ridge/
> >
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