ARMONK, N.Y., June 18, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE:
IBM) today announced that it is the only vendor to have multiple
systems in the Top 10 of the semi-annual Top500 and Green500
supercomputer lists. This includes the US Dept of Energy's Summit
and Sierra supercomputers, the overall number one and number two
most powerful supercomputers in the world, along with the Lassen
Supercomputer built for Lawrence Livermore National Labs. IBM also
teamed with Total, a global oil producer, for the world's most
powerful commercial supercomputer that debuted on the Top500 list
at #11.
IBM Highlights from this iteration of the Top500 list and
Green500 list, rank systems by performance and energy efficiency,
respectfully include:
- The number one overall aggregate performance score using 14x
fewer systems than the number two overall
- Three Systems in the Top 10 of the Top 500, the most of any
vendor
- Four Systems in the Top 10 of the Green500, the most of any
vendor
- The only vendor to have multiple systems in the Top 10 of the
both the Top500 and the Green500
"IBM was an early-adopter of data-centric design principles, and
when we began developing POWER9 for the HPC industry we maintained
that we wanted it to be measured by application performance," said
IBM Vice President of Exascale Systems David Turek. "Our systems appearing in the top
ranks for both performance and energy efficiency is a testament to
our efforts. Also, seeing this technology now permeate into
commercial systems is an important development for the industry as
we evolve these workloads for both traditional and deep learning
applications."
IBM POWER9's industry leading approach to memory bandwidth
allows for 9.5x faster data transfer between the POWER9 processor
and its attached accelerators vs compared x86i. IBM
POWER9 systems are designed to move data throughout the system with
fewer bottlenecks and improve energy efficiency.
As part of the OpenPOWER Foundation, IBM worked with NVIDIA to
jointly develop the industry's only CPU-to-GPU NVIDIA NVLink
connection, which allows for 5.6x faster memory bandwidth between
the IBM POWER9 CPU and NVIDIA Tesla V100 Tensorcore GPUs than
compared x86-based systemsii. This allows for nearly a
4x reduction in AI model trainingiii versus the compared
x86 based systems.
New on the Top500 list is Pangea III, a new supercomputer built
by IBM for Total. Pangea III is being built using the same IBM
POWER9, high-performance architecture as used in the U.S.
Department of Energy's Summit and Sierra supercomputers, the
world's smartest supercomputers. IBM POWER9 is designed to take
advantage of attached accelerators, which can help clients not only
improve performance but also improve energy efficiency in their HPC
workloads.
For more information on how IBM POWER Systems are turbo-charging
business computing, please visit:
https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/solutions/hpc
Contacts:
Sam
Ponedal
IBM US
916-217-0145
sponeda@us.ibm.com
i 9.5X is based on POWER9 and next-generation NVIDIA
NVLink peak transfer rate is 150 GB/sec = 48 lanes x 3.2265625
GB/sec x 64 bit/66 bit encoding compared to x86 PCI Express 3.0
(x16) peak transfer rate is 15.75 GB/sec = 16 lanes X 1GB/sec/lane
x 128 bit/130 bit encoding.
ii 5.6x I/O bandwidth claim based on NVIDIA
measurement test conducted on a Xeon E5-2640 V4 +P100 vs Power9 +
V100 (12 GB/s vs 68 GB/s rated)
iii Results are based IBM Internal Measurements running
1000 iterations of Enlarged GoogleNet model (mini-batch
size=5) on Enlarged Imagenet Dataset (2560x2560) .
Power AC922; 40 cores (2 x 20c chips), POWER9 with NVLink 2.0; 2.25
GHz, 1024 GB memory, 4xTesla V100 GPU ; Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7.4 for Power Little Endian (POWER9) with CUDA 9.1/ CUDNN 7;.
Competitive stack: 2x Xeon E5-2640 v4; 20 cores (2 x 10c chips)
/ 40 threads; Intel Xeon E5-2640 v4; 2.4 GHz; 1024 GB
memory, 4xTesla V100 GPU, Ubuntu 16.04. with CUDA .9.0/ CUDNN 7
Software: Chainverv3 /LMS/Out of Core with patches found at
https://github.com/cupy/cupy/pull/694 and
https://github.com/chainer/chainer/pull/3762
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