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Indiana University's Anniversary Supercomputer Uses Next-generation N Cards With a Speed of 6 Petaflops

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Indiana University, in celebration of its 200th anniversary, unveiled a new supercomputer designed for artificial intelligence applications that combines AMD Rome CPUs and the latest NVIDIA Tensor Core GPUs. The $9.6 million supercomputer, which is capable of 6 petaflops of computing power, is now up and running at the university.

Indiana University just unveiled a new supercomputer designed to accelerate medical, climate modeling, physics and other academic research. The supercomputer, called Big Red 200, has a computing speed of 6 quadrillion times per second, costs $9.6 million, and is currently installed and running at Indiana University.

Indiana University celebrates its 200th anniversaryOn the occasion

It is reported that Indiana University is celebrating its 200th anniversary. Red is the representative color of the university, which is the origin of the name "Big Red 200".

Big Red 200, designed for AI applications

The new supercomputer, Big Red 200, is designed specifically for artificial intelligence applications and combines AMD Rome CPUs with the latest NVIDIA Tensor Core GPUs.

Big Red 200 includes 256 NVIDIA Tensor Core GPUs, one of the first computers to use NVIDIA's next-generation Ampere GPUs.

Inside the Big Red 200 are 672 dual-socket nodes powered by AMD EPYC Rome CPUs, each containing 64 cores and 128 threads, which can run Crysis with a total of 86,016 cores and 172,032 threads.

The Big Red 200 is based on HPE's Cray Shasta architecture and is the first to be deployed around the world.It will be applied in fields such as artificial intelligence, medicine, network security and HPC.

Using the new generation NVIDIA GPU, performance is greatly improved

The Big Red 200 was originally designed to use the Tesla V100 GPU, but at the last minute, NVIDIA offered to upgrade it with the V100's successor, likely called the Tesla A100.The upgrade increases its theoretical FP64 performance from 6 PetaFLOPS to nearly 8 PetaFLOPS.

The supercomputer can simulate climate models faster, allowing researchers to better understand climatechange

“The Big Red 200 is a huge leap in supercomputing power to support Indiana University researchers and students,” said Brad Wheeler, vice president for information technology and chief information officer at Indiana University. “And the computer will be upgraded over the summer with next-generation GPUs from NVIDIA.”

According to the introduction,It is eight times faster than its predecessor, Big Red 2, Indiana's 2013 supercomputer powered by Tesla K20 'Kepler' GPU accelerators.Users will see "bigger leaps" in AI processing.

The next-generation Ampere GPU will bring a major boost to Big Red 200, with performance said to be "70% to 75% higher than the current generation." Brad Wheeler said the V100 had 7 to 8.2 TeraFLOPS on FP64, and this new card could have 13±1 TeraFLOPS.

With the entire machine installed and running this summer,Big Red 200 will be "the fastest AI supercomputer owned by a university in the world."

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