Nvidia has built a new supercomputer Grace CPU Superchip From the company. The new computer is part of what Nvidia calls a “wave of new power-efficient supercomputers” based on the Arm Neoverse platform. The new addition to the Arm Neoverse ecosystem will lead to advances in AI, climate science and medical research.
The American chipmaker explains that the Isambard 3 supercomputer will be located at the Bristol & Bath Science Park in the United Kingdom. Also, it will have 384 ARM-based Nvidia Grace CPU superchips. Supercomputers are driving advances in medical and scientific research. The system will be six times better and more energy efficient than Isambard 2. That should make the system “one of the most energy-efficient systems in Europe,” the company says.
A British project
Nvidia claims that Isambard 3 FP64 will hit 2.7 petaflops at peak performance. Additionally, it will consume less than 270 kilowatts of power, making it one of the three greenest unaccelerated supercomputers in the world. The project is led by the University of Bristol, as part of the GW4 Alliance research consortium, in collaboration with the Universities of Bath, Cardiff and Exeter.
“The Isambard 3 joins the growing wave of Nvidia Arm-based supercomputers around the world,” the company is proud to say. This includes additional systems that use GPUs Swiss National Supercomputing Center and Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States.
Advances in life sciences, medicine and more
According to Nvidia, Isambard 3 will help the European scientific research community make breakthroughs in AI, life sciences, medicine, astrophysics and biotechnology. It will be built by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). “It can create detailed models of exceptionally complex structures such as wind turbines and fusion reactors, which will help researchers unlock new advances in clean and green energy,” the company says.
Ian Buck, vice president of hyperscale and HPC at Nvidia, explained the urgency of the new supercomputing program. “As climate change becomes an increasingly existential issue, the adoption of computer energy-efficient technologies is imperative,” he said. “NVIDIA arm collaborates with the Neoverse ecosystem to provide a path to build highly energy-efficient supercomputing centers that drive breakthroughs in scientific and industrial research,” Buck said.
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