In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team describes the highlights of SC17 in Denver. Highlights includes the debut of ARM hardware for HPC, a Rasberry Pie Cluster, and pervasive liquid cooling.
Other highlights include:
- Posit Research was there at the Innovation Showcase with an all-new company working to proliferate Unum based computing invented by John Gustafson from A*STAR in Singapore.
- New high performance interconnects are proliferating with PCIe technologies, Gen-Z, etc.
- The Student Cluster LINPACK record was smashed this year with 51.8 Teraflops. Nanyang University achieved this record number with the new NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs.
Shahin noted that there was a good number of exhibits centering around quantum computing.
After that, we do our catch of the week:
- There is hack for the Amazon Courier that could let the bad guys into your home.
- Boston Dynamics Atlas has a robot that can do backflips.
- Dan is stuck on the freeway in a Snowstorm.
It’s mentioned in the podcast that you didn’t see any ARM benchmarks presented. What about the performance results presented for the Isambard system using Cavium ThunderX2 processors? ( http://www.goingarm.com/slides/2017/SC17/GoingArm_SC17_Bristol_Isambard.pdf )
Some impressive numbers there, including for real workloads such as the UK Met Office’s Unified Model (an atmospheric weather model), NEMO (an ocean forecasting model), and OpenFOAM (fluid dynamics simulations).