That is until everyone is evading taxes because they can't afford to pay their medical bills and also cover other essential exepenses. Then again, it's not like we all needed that new SUV or pickup truck that gets 9 MPG we're up to our eyeballs in debt over or the three crotch goblin children we decided to have.
Who cares? Only the inferior classes can't afford to maintain their own health and demand that they be permitted to further parasite themselves upon the superior class.
Actually, scratch that, they had to sign a contract with Constellation last year in order to bring Aurora online. Their CHP (Combined Heat Power) plant doesn't produce enough electricity for the Advanced Photon Source synchrotron ring AND the Aurora as it barely ran the accelerator and terabyte storage facility this replaced, not to mention the rest of the campus. Argonne has always received supplemental power from the grid and as a form of redundancy.
Read about Argonne's CHP plant. It is effectively the worlds largest heatpump. It reclaims heat in the Summer to produce electricity, and generates steam as a byproduct of electricity in the Winter to create heat that is piped to multiple buildings throughout the campus. It is an experiment\proof of concept that went online in 2016 to use the existing steam pipe infrastructure left over from the original steam production facility that used to heat the site dating back a century.
Meh, their math is not wrong, just their prefix. And their *point* regarding CPUs is spot on I believe.. Frontier uses ~606k cores, this one needs ~1.1M.
POWER is you big issue here? It is interesting to see how much they use, and the megawatt per PETAflop ration has to be going up - quite a bit - but then again we are getting incredible computing power to model many things and push forward in incredible way - and remain competative in the market.
PB would make a LOT more sense. I was thinking to myself as I read the article that 220 TB seemed very small and underwhelming compared to the size of everything else about the supercomputer.
I'm sure that the Frontier Supercomputer is getting some scheduled upgrades eventually to get to 2 exaflops and at much lower power needed for that. The MI300X all CDNA CUs variant can probably be swapped in there easily to upgrade Frontier to reach even more than 2 exaflops after an upgrade.
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fallaha56 - Thursday, June 22, 2023 - link
Sure but what’s the power consumption? Twice that of El Capitan…ballsystemlord - Thursday, June 22, 2023 - link
Yes. Notice the lack of even an unofficial figure there.Samus - Thursday, June 22, 2023 - link
Argonne has it's own power plant funded by the DoE and UofC, they can afford whatever it is with our tax dollars :)PeachNCream - Friday, June 23, 2023 - link
That is until everyone is evading taxes because they can't afford to pay their medical bills and also cover other essential exepenses. Then again, it's not like we all needed that new SUV or pickup truck that gets 9 MPG we're up to our eyeballs in debt over or the three crotch goblin children we decided to have.Why998 - Monday, June 26, 2023 - link
You have got to be one of the most miserable people on this planetVendicar - Tuesday, June 27, 2023 - link
Don't like the truth?Mdarrish - Wednesday, July 5, 2023 - link
Actually that would be his spouse.Vendicar - Tuesday, June 27, 2023 - link
Who cares? Only the inferior classes can't afford to maintain their own health and demand that they be permitted to further parasite themselves upon the superior class.Oxford Guy - Wednesday, June 28, 2023 - link
Parasitize.Samus - Friday, June 23, 2023 - link
Actually, scratch that, they had to sign a contract with Constellation last year in order to bring Aurora online. Their CHP (Combined Heat Power) plant doesn't produce enough electricity for the Advanced Photon Source synchrotron ring AND the Aurora as it barely ran the accelerator and terabyte storage facility this replaced, not to mention the rest of the campus. Argonne has always received supplemental power from the grid and as a form of redundancy.speedping - Friday, June 23, 2023 - link
At this point it's reckless to not find a way to use all that waste heat to generate electricity.The Von Matrices - Friday, June 23, 2023 - link
The waste heat is too cool to be of use for electrical generation. It may be useful for heating buildings and water though.Samus - Saturday, June 24, 2023 - link
Read about Argonne's CHP plant. It is effectively the worlds largest heatpump. It reclaims heat in the Summer to produce electricity, and generates steam as a byproduct of electricity in the Winter to create heat that is piped to multiple buildings throughout the campus. It is an experiment\proof of concept that went online in 2016 to use the existing steam pipe infrastructure left over from the original steam production facility that used to heat the site dating back a century.Vendicar - Tuesday, June 27, 2023 - link
They should use it to generate electricity.duploxxx - Friday, June 23, 2023 - link
compared with the TOP Frontier which is 4Y old....they wil get estimated 2Tflops vs 1.2TFlopshowever they need more than double resources
cpu
9408 vs 21248
gpu 37632 vs 63744
The Frontier consumes 21MW de aurora is estimated on 60MW
Poor team that ordered this...
zsdersw - Monday, June 26, 2023 - link
Your math is wrong. This thing won't be 2Tflops.. it'll be 2 exaflops. 1 exaflop is 1000 petaflops and 1 petaflop is 1000 teraflops.jvl - Wednesday, June 28, 2023 - link
Meh, their math is not wrong, just their prefix. And their *point* regarding CPUs is spot on I believe.. Frontier uses ~606k cores, this one needs ~1.1M.wanderer66 - Friday, June 23, 2023 - link
That's like asking about the fuel efficiency of a top fuel dragster.3dgaming - Wednesday, July 5, 2023 - link
POWER is you big issue here? It is interesting to see how much they use, and the megawatt per PETAflop ration has to be going up - quite a bit - but then again we are getting incredible computing power to model many things and push forward in incredible way - and remain competative in the market.shplatt - Thursday, June 22, 2023 - link
I believe the storage is PB not TB.domboy - Friday, June 23, 2023 - link
PB would make a LOT more sense. I was thinking to myself as I read the article that 220 TB seemed very small and underwhelming compared to the size of everything else about the supercomputer.jvl - Wednesday, June 28, 2023 - link
Especially if it would be full after 7 s =)don0301 - Thursday, June 22, 2023 - link
But can it play Crysis?ballsystemlord - Thursday, June 22, 2023 - link
;)FunBunny2 - Thursday, June 22, 2023 - link
I suppose this runs on some bespoke version of linux? anyone know which and from whence?ballsystemlord - Thursday, June 22, 2023 - link
LFS probably. Or a highly augmented version of Linux.ballsystemlord - Saturday, June 24, 2023 - link
Actually, they probably have a micro-super computer using the same HW for staging/testing the SW before they employ it in the actual super computer.jpecar - Saturday, July 8, 2023 - link
"Cray Computing Environment" is based on SuSE Linux.jtr101 - Thursday, June 22, 2023 - link
How much did it cost?Dante Verizon - Thursday, June 22, 2023 - link
"expected cost of US$500 million""Power: 60MW"
nandnandnand - Friday, June 23, 2023 - link
60 MW is very high. I know 20 MW *maximum* has been a target for supercomputers.Dante Verizon - Friday, June 23, 2023 - link
The 60k GPUs alone already consume more than 30MWDante Verizon - Thursday, June 22, 2023 - link
This is peak performance, not far from the frontier (1.67 ExaFlops), but consuming 3x more...FWhitTrampoline - Friday, June 23, 2023 - link
I'm sure that the Frontier Supercomputer is getting some scheduled upgrades eventually to get to 2 exaflops and at much lower power needed for that. The MI300X all CDNA CUs variant can probably be swapped in there easily to upgrade Frontier to reach even more than 2 exaflops after an upgrade.Dante Verizon - Friday, June 23, 2023 - link
It would certainly be a massive advance in performance and efficiency, living up to the green agendahorsebadorties - Thursday, June 22, 2023 - link
Is this the computer that runs for centuries and prints out "42?"ycyah - Friday, June 23, 2023 - link
thanks for all the detailsbut a typo: "64" blades each rack, your other article (is Ready) got it right.
Vendicar - Tuesday, June 27, 2023 - link
Brought to you by American Nuclear Weapons Research.twtech - Friday, June 30, 2023 - link
220TB of storage is relatively small - especially for a system with 20PB of RAM. Clearly this is not intended for data-centric workloads.