Wednesday, May 13th 2020
Fujitsu Completes Delivery of Fugaku Supercomputer
Fujitsu has today officially completed the delivery of the Fugaku supercomputer to the Riken scientific research institute of Japan. This is a big accomplishment as the current COVID-19 pandemic has delayed many happenings in the industry. However, Fujitsu managed to play around that and deliver the supercomputer on time. The last of 400 racks needed for the Fugaku supercomputer was delivered today, on May 13th, as it was originally planned. The supercomputer is supposed to be fully operational starting on the physical year of 2021, where the installation and setup will be done before.
As a reminder, the Fugaku is an Arm-based supercomputer consisting out of 150 thousand A64FX CPUs. These CPUs are custom made processors by Fujitsu based on Arm v8.2 ISA, and they feature 48 cores built on TSMC 7 nm node and running above 2 GHz. Packing 8.786 billion transistors, this monster chips use HBM2 memory instead of a regular DDR memory interface. Recently, a prototype of the Fugaku supercomputer was submitted to the Top500 supercomputer list and it came on top for being the most energy-efficient of all, meaning that it will be as energy efficient as it will be fast. Speculations are that it will have around 400 PetaFlops of general compute power for Dual-Precision workloads, however, for the specific artificial intelligence applications, it should achieve ExaFLOP performance target.
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As a reminder, the Fugaku is an Arm-based supercomputer consisting out of 150 thousand A64FX CPUs. These CPUs are custom made processors by Fujitsu based on Arm v8.2 ISA, and they feature 48 cores built on TSMC 7 nm node and running above 2 GHz. Packing 8.786 billion transistors, this monster chips use HBM2 memory instead of a regular DDR memory interface. Recently, a prototype of the Fugaku supercomputer was submitted to the Top500 supercomputer list and it came on top for being the most energy-efficient of all, meaning that it will be as energy efficient as it will be fast. Speculations are that it will have around 400 PetaFlops of general compute power for Dual-Precision workloads, however, for the specific artificial intelligence applications, it should achieve ExaFLOP performance target.
12 Comments on Fujitsu Completes Delivery of Fugaku Supercomputer
Looking at the Green500 list:
www.top500.org/green500/lists/2019/11/
- A64FX is fairly obvious - a lot of ARM cores with dedicated hardware AI units.
- NA1 runs bunch of Xeons whose purpose is to support custom PEZY-SC2 processors (MIPS-based).
- AiMOS, Satori and Summit are using a bunch of PowerPC machines to support Nvidia Volta accelerators.
- The rest of the beginning of that list is Xeon or PowerPC CPUs with a lot of Nvidia Volta/Pascal accelerators.
Edit:
Performance is Linpack, specifically High Performance Linpack (www.netlib.org/benchmark/hpl/) with the best problem size for specific supercomputer.
Just take the gold, man.