InfiniBand Accelerates the World-Fastest HPC and Artificial Intelligence Supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
25 Juni 2018 - 10:09AM
Business Wire
Summit Supercomputer Leverages EDR InfiniBand
In-Network Computing Technology to Deliver Unprecedented Computing
Power for Scientific Simulation and Artificial Intelligence
Applications
Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MLNX), a leading supplier
of high-performance, end-to-end smart interconnect solutions for
data center servers and storage systems, today announced that EDR
InfiniBand accelerates the new world-fastest high-performance
computing (HPC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) system, named
Summit, at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, based on the June’18
TOP500 supercomputers list. Summit is capable of 200 Petaflop
performance and leverages dual EDR InfiniBand network to provide
overall 200 gigabit per second throughput to each compute
server.
Summit provides eight times higher performance versus the
previous fastest supercomputer in the US. The new supercomputer
will enable simulations of greater resolution and higher fidelity
to advance human knowledge in diverse science domains such as
biology, nuclear science, cosmology and more. Some early Summit
research projects include studying exploding stars at unprecedented
scales, simulating particle turbulence in sustainable fusion
reactions, researching materials for high-temperature
superconductors and others.
Summit is also the fastest Artificial Intelligence platform in
the world, offering unparalleled opportunities for the integration
of AI and scientific discovery. Applying machine learning and deep
learning capabilities to automate, accelerate, and drive
understanding at supercomputer scales will help scientists achieve
breakthroughs in human health, energy and engineering, and answer
fundamental questions about the universe.
“We are proud to accelerate the world’s fastest HPC and AI
supercomputer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a result of a
great collaboration over the last few years between Oak Ridge
National Laboratory, IBM, NVIDIA and us,” said Eyal Waldman,
president and CEO of Mellanox Technologies. “Our InfiniBand smart
accelerations and offload technology delivers highest HPC and AI
applications performance, scalability, and robustness. InfiniBand
enables organizations to maximize their data center
return-on-investment and improve their total cost of ownership and,
as such, it connects many of the top HPC and AI infrastructures
around the world. We look forward to being a part of and
accelerating new scientific discoveries and advances in AI
development, to be performed and enabled by Summit.”
The need to analyze growing amounts of data, to support complex
simulations, to overcome performance bottlenecks and to create
intelligent data algorithms requires the ability to manage and
carry out computational operations on the data as it is being
transferred by the data center interconnect. Mellanox InfiniBand
solutions incorporate the In-Network Computing technology that
performs data algorithms within the network, delivering performance
and scalability advantages, and enabling the era of “data-centric”
data centers.
“Summit HPC and AI-optimized infrastructure enables us to
analyze massive amounts of data to better understand world
phenomena, to enable new discoveries and to create advanced AI
software,” said Buddy Bland, Program Director at Oak Ridge
Leadership Computing Faculty. “InfiniBand In-Network Computing
technology is a critical new technology that helps Summit achieve
our scientific and research goals. We are excited to see the fruits
of our collaboration with Mellanox over the last several years
through the development of the In-Network Computing technology, and
look forward to take advantage of it for achieving highest
performance and efficiency for our applications.”
Oak Ridge National Laboratory is managed by UT-Battelle for the
Department of Energy's Office of Science, the single largest
supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United
States. DOE’s Office of Science is working to address some of the
most pressing challenges of our time. For more information on
Summit, please check
https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/olcf-resources/compute-systems/summit/
Learn more at http://www.mellanox.com/solutions/hpc/
About Mellanox
Mellanox Technologies (NASDAQ: MLNX) is a leading supplier of
end-to-end InfiniBand and Ethernet smart interconnect solutions and
services for servers and storage. Mellanox interconnect solutions
increase data center efficiency by providing the highest throughput
and lowest latency, delivering data faster to applications and
unlocking system performance capability. Mellanox offers a choice
of fast interconnect products: adapters, switches, software and
silicon that accelerate application runtime and maximize business
results for a wide range of markets including high performance
computing, enterprise data centers, Web 2.0, cloud, storage and
financial services. More information is available at:
www.mellanox.com.
Note: Mellanox is a trademark of Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.
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