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The new no. 1 system on the updated ranking of the TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, released this morning, is Fugaku, a machine built at the Riken Center for Computational Science in Kobe, Japan. The system turned in a High Performance LINPACK (HPL) result of 415.5 petaflops (nearly half an exascale), outperforming Summit, the former no. 1 system housed at the U.S. Dept. of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Lab, by a factor of 2.8x.
Fugaku, powered by Fujitsu’s 48-core A64FX SoC, is the first ARM-based system to take the TOP500 top spot. The system, which has 158,976 nodes, blew through the exascale (a billion billion calculations per second) milestone in single precision calculations, often used in machine learning and AI applications. On the HPL-AIbenchmark, designed to measure HPC performance on machine/deep learning workloads, Fugaku registered peak performance of 1.45 exaflops, according to Jack Dongarra, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the University of Tennessee, who helped create the TOP500 list in 1993.
“This is an impressive machine,” Dongarra told us. “It has great potential. They’ve run a number of applications already on the Fugaku system, and I expect to see many good things come out of it. It’s a very well balanced machine. It was designed to do supercomputing – that is to say, it wasn’t cobbled together from commodity processors and GPUs. It was designed specifically for this high end, high performance computing.”
Number two on the TOP500 list is Summit, an IBM-built supercomputer that delivers 148.8 petaflops on the LINPACK benchmark. The system, which has 4,356 nodes, each with two 22-core Power9 CPUs and six NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs, remains the fastest supercomputer in the US. At number three is Sierra, at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, achieving 94.6 petaflops on HPL. Also built by IBM and with an architecture similar to Summit, it’s equipped with two Power9 CPUs and four NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs in each of its 4,320 nodes.
Sunway TaihuLight, developed by China’s National Research Center of Parallel Computer Engineering & Technology (NRCPC) drops to number four on the list. The system is powered entirely by Sunway 260-core SW26010 processors and its HPL mark of 93 petaflops has remained unchanged since it was installed at the National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi, China in June 2016, according to the TOP500.
At number five is Tianhe-2A (Milky Way-2A), developed by China’s National University of Defense Technology with HPL performance of 61.4 petaflops. It has a hybrid architecture employing Intel Xeon CPUs and custom-built Matrix-2000 coprocessors and is deployed at the National Supercomputer Center in Guangzhou, China.
A new system on the list, HPC5, a PowerEdge system built by Dell and installed by the Italian energy firm Eni S.p.A, captured the number six spot with an HPL performance of 35.5 petaflops. HPC5 is the fastest supercomputer in Europe and the world’s most powerful system for commercial use. It is powered by Intel Xeon Gold processors and NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs and uses Mellanox HDR InfiniBand as the system network.
Another new system, Selene, is at number seven with an HPL mark of 27.58 petaflops. It is an Nvidia DGX SuperPOD, powered by Nvidia’s new “Ampere” A100 GPUs and AMD’s EPYC “Rome” CPUs. Selene is installed at NVIDIA in the US and uses Mellanox HDR InfiniBand as the system network.
Frontera, a Dell C6420 system installed at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) in the US is ranked eighth on the list. Its 23.5 HPL petaflops is achieved with 448,448 Intel Xeon cores. Marconi-100, at 21.6 petaflops and installed at Italy’s CINECA research center comes in no. 9. It is powered by IBM Power9 processors and NVIDIA V100 GPUs, employing dual-rail Mellanox EDR InfiniBand. Rounding out the top 10 is Piz Daint at 19.6 petaflops, a Cray XC50 system installed at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre in Lugano, Switzerland. It is equipped with Intel Xeon processors and NVIDIA P100 GPUs.
A complete listing of the updated TOP500 will be released by the organization here.
Impressed as he is by Fugaku, Dongarra cautioned that the new no. 1 system is not an exascale supercomputer.
“No, I would not pose it as the first exascale machine,” he said. “The Summit machine had a peak performance over an exaflop – I think the peak for Summit was about three exaflops, but it couldn’t achieve that on the (LINPACK) benchmark. And for most scientific applications, we talk about 64-bit computation. So for 64-bit, we’re still under an exaflop.”
https://insidehpc.com/2020/06/arm-based-fugaku-stands-on-summit-of-new-top500/
Well done to Japan! The US is right on your tail though with the 1 exaflop Aurora and 1.5 exaflop Frontier supercomputers launching next year!
Fugaku, powered by Fujitsu’s 48-core A64FX SoC, is the first ARM-based system to take the TOP500 top spot. The system, which has 158,976 nodes, blew through the exascale (a billion billion calculations per second) milestone in single precision calculations, often used in machine learning and AI applications. On the HPL-AIbenchmark, designed to measure HPC performance on machine/deep learning workloads, Fugaku registered peak performance of 1.45 exaflops, according to Jack Dongarra, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the University of Tennessee, who helped create the TOP500 list in 1993.
“This is an impressive machine,” Dongarra told us. “It has great potential. They’ve run a number of applications already on the Fugaku system, and I expect to see many good things come out of it. It’s a very well balanced machine. It was designed to do supercomputing – that is to say, it wasn’t cobbled together from commodity processors and GPUs. It was designed specifically for this high end, high performance computing.”
Number two on the TOP500 list is Summit, an IBM-built supercomputer that delivers 148.8 petaflops on the LINPACK benchmark. The system, which has 4,356 nodes, each with two 22-core Power9 CPUs and six NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs, remains the fastest supercomputer in the US. At number three is Sierra, at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, achieving 94.6 petaflops on HPL. Also built by IBM and with an architecture similar to Summit, it’s equipped with two Power9 CPUs and four NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs in each of its 4,320 nodes.
Sunway TaihuLight, developed by China’s National Research Center of Parallel Computer Engineering & Technology (NRCPC) drops to number four on the list. The system is powered entirely by Sunway 260-core SW26010 processors and its HPL mark of 93 petaflops has remained unchanged since it was installed at the National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi, China in June 2016, according to the TOP500.
At number five is Tianhe-2A (Milky Way-2A), developed by China’s National University of Defense Technology with HPL performance of 61.4 petaflops. It has a hybrid architecture employing Intel Xeon CPUs and custom-built Matrix-2000 coprocessors and is deployed at the National Supercomputer Center in Guangzhou, China.
A new system on the list, HPC5, a PowerEdge system built by Dell and installed by the Italian energy firm Eni S.p.A, captured the number six spot with an HPL performance of 35.5 petaflops. HPC5 is the fastest supercomputer in Europe and the world’s most powerful system for commercial use. It is powered by Intel Xeon Gold processors and NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs and uses Mellanox HDR InfiniBand as the system network.
Another new system, Selene, is at number seven with an HPL mark of 27.58 petaflops. It is an Nvidia DGX SuperPOD, powered by Nvidia’s new “Ampere” A100 GPUs and AMD’s EPYC “Rome” CPUs. Selene is installed at NVIDIA in the US and uses Mellanox HDR InfiniBand as the system network.
Frontera, a Dell C6420 system installed at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) in the US is ranked eighth on the list. Its 23.5 HPL petaflops is achieved with 448,448 Intel Xeon cores. Marconi-100, at 21.6 petaflops and installed at Italy’s CINECA research center comes in no. 9. It is powered by IBM Power9 processors and NVIDIA V100 GPUs, employing dual-rail Mellanox EDR InfiniBand. Rounding out the top 10 is Piz Daint at 19.6 petaflops, a Cray XC50 system installed at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre in Lugano, Switzerland. It is equipped with Intel Xeon processors and NVIDIA P100 GPUs.
A complete listing of the updated TOP500 will be released by the organization here.
Impressed as he is by Fugaku, Dongarra cautioned that the new no. 1 system is not an exascale supercomputer.
“No, I would not pose it as the first exascale machine,” he said. “The Summit machine had a peak performance over an exaflop – I think the peak for Summit was about three exaflops, but it couldn’t achieve that on the (LINPACK) benchmark. And for most scientific applications, we talk about 64-bit computation. So for 64-bit, we’re still under an exaflop.”
https://insidehpc.com/2020/06/arm-based-fugaku-stands-on-summit-of-new-top500/
Well done to Japan! The US is right on your tail though with the 1 exaflop Aurora and 1.5 exaflop Frontier supercomputers launching next year!
