NVIDIA Turbocharges Extreme-Scale AI for Argonne National Laboratory’s Polaris Supercomputer
August 25 2021 - 6:00AM
The largest GPU-based supercomputer at the U.S. Department of
Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory will run on NVIDIA’s
accelerated computing platform, the company announced today.
The Polaris supercomputer, hosted at the laboratory’s Argonne
Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), will supercharge research and
discovery with extreme scale for users’ algorithms and science.
Accelerated by 2,240 NVIDIA® A100 Tensor Core GPUs, the system can
achieve almost 1.4 exaflops of theoretical AI performance and
approximately 44 petaflops of peak double-precision
performance.
Polaris, to be built by Hewlett Packard Enterprise, will combine
simulation and machine learning by tackling data-intensive and AI
high performance computing workloads, powered by 560 total nodes,
each with four NVIDIA A100 GPUs.
“The era of exascale AI will enable scientific breakthroughs
with massive scale to bring incredible benefits for society,” said
Ian Buck, vice president and general manager of Accelerated
Computing at NVIDIA. “NVIDIA’s GPU-accelerated computing platform
provides pioneers like the ALCF breakthrough performance for
next-generation supercomputers such as Polaris that let researchers
push the boundaries of scientific exploration.”
“Polaris is a powerful platform that will allow our users to
enter the era of exascale AI,” said ALCF Director Michael E. Papka.
“Harnessing the huge number of NVIDIA A100 GPUs will have an
immediate impact on our data-intensive and AI HPC workloads,
allowing Polaris to tackle some of the world’s most complex
scientific problems.”
The system will accelerate transformative scientific
exploration, such as advancing cancer treatments, exploring clean
energy and propelling particle collision research to discover new
approaches to physics. And it will transport the ALCF into the era
of exascale AI by enabling researchers to update their scientific
workloads for Aurora, Argonne’s forthcoming exascale system.
Polaris will also be available to researchers from academia,
government agencies and industry through the ALCF’s peer-reviewed
allocation and application programs. These programs provide the
scientific community with access to the nation’s fastest
supercomputers to address “grand challenges” in science and
engineering.
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