[Beowulf] Summit

[Prentice Bisbal]

On 11/14/2014 02:08 PM, Kilian Cavalotti wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Scott Atchley
> <e.scott.atchley at gmail.com> wrote:
>> This is what's next:
>>
>> https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/summit/
> That's a big win for IBM/NVIDIA (well actually two: ORNL's Summit and
> LLNL's Sierra), and kind of tough for Intel: no x86, and no Lustre.
>
> Cheers,

I've been waiting for an announcement like this since the IBM+NVidia 
alliance was announced last year. I think it's going to be Intel vs. 
IBM/NVidia in the HPC race for the foreseeable future, but I'm hoping 
ARM jumps in in the next couple of years to keep it interesting for us 
spectators.

I think what's really amazing is how much smaller the system will be in 
terms of actual nodes and FLOPS vs. Watts (based on the data comparing 
Sierra to Titan).

-- 
Prentice