Intel introduced the Aurora supercomputer, developed in collaboration with Argonne National Laboratory and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), at the ISC High Performance 2024 event. Let’s take a look at the details together.
Aurora became the world’s fastest supercomputer in the field of artificial intelligence
The Aurora supercomputer is a major step towards accelerating scientific discovery. Aurora’s exceeding the exascale barrier by reaching 1,012 exaflops will allow scientists to reach dimensions they have not been able to reach before.
Since Aurora is designed as an artificial intelligence-driven system, it will allow researchers to accelerate scientific discoveries using artificial intelligence models that cover a wide range of fields.
Argonne’s early AI-supported research has made significant advances, such as mapping the complex structure of the human brain, improving high-energy particle physics with deep learning, and accelerating drug design with artificial intelligence.
The Aurora supercomputer is a large system with 166 racks and 10,624 compute blades. It is also equipped with 21,248 Intel Xeon CPU Max Series processors and 63,744 Intel Data Center GPU Max Series units, creating one of the largest GPU clusters in the world. It has the largest open Ethernet-based supercomputer communications network equipped with 84,992 HPE Slingshots.
Aurora also achieved successful results in benchmark tests such as high-performance LINPACK and high-performance conjugate gradient. However, the most important point is that, thanks to Aurora’s artificial intelligence-focused structure, scientists can perform complex calculations for real-world applications.
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One of the factors that play an important role in Aurora’s success is the Intel Xe GPU architecture and hardware designed specifically for this architecture. This architecture is optimized to accelerate complex AI operations such as deep learning models. Intel’s software tools provide developers with flexibility and scalability so they can run on different devices and form factors.
Aurora’s success also sheds light on Intel’s future technology developments. Mixed-precision AI benchmark results, which will be the basis for the company’s next-generation GPU, will play a key role in determining the direction of future technology developments.
The Aurora supercomputer represents the beginning of a new era in artificial intelligence and high-performance computing. What are you thinking? Please don’t forget to share your thoughts with us in the comments section below.