[Beowulf] Frontier Announcement

[Gus Correa]

On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 1:47 PM Jörg Saßmannshausen <
sassy-work at sassy.formativ.net> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I think the answer to the question lies here:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenACC
>
> As I follow these things rather loosely, my understanding was that OpenACC
> should run on both nVidia and other GPUs. So maybe that is the reason why
> it
> is a 'pure' AMD cluster where both GPUs and CPUs are from the same
> supplier?
> IF all of that is working out and if it is really true that you can
> compile
> and run OpenACC code on both types of GPUs, it would a be big win for AMD.
>
> Time will tell!
>
> All the best from my TARDIS!
>
> Jörg
>
>
Once upon a time portability, interoperabiilty, standardization, were
considered good software and hardware attributes.
Whatever happened to them?

Am Dienstag, 7. Mai 2019, 16:59:48 BST schrieben Sie:
> > >   I think it is interesting that they are using AMD for
> > >
> > > both the CPUs and GPUs
> >
> > I agree. That means a LOT of codes will have to be ported from CUDA to
> > whatever AMD uses. I know AMD announced their HIP interface to convert
> > CUDA code into something that will run on AMD processors, but I don't
> > know how well that works in theory. Frankly, I haven't heard anything
> > about it since it was announced at SC a few years ago.
> >
> > I would not be surprised if AMD pursued this bid quite agressively,
> > possibly at a significant loss, for the opportunity to prove their GPUs
> > can compete with NVIDIA and demonstrate that codes can be successfully
> > converted from CUDA to something AMD GPUs can use to demonstrate GPU
> > users don't need to be locked in to a single vendor. If so, this could
> > be a costly gamble for the DOE and AMD, but if it pays off, I imagine it
> > could change AMD's fortunes in HPC.
> >
> >   "Win on Sunday, sell on Monday" doesn't apply just to cars.
> >
> > Prentice
> >
> > On 5/7/19 4:43 PM, Jörg Saßmannshausen 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-ridg
> > >> e/
>
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