Intel, Hewlett Packard inch ahead in setting up supercomputer Aurora
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Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE:HPE) and the Department of Energy (DOE) on Thursday said that the blade installation process for the Aurora Supercomputer at the Argonne National Laboratory was complete.
The Aurora supercomputer is aimed at simulations, data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) on an extremely large scale, according to the companies.
Intel said Aurora is now fully equipped with all 10,624 compute blades, boasting 63,744 Intel Data Center GPU Max Series and 21,248 Intel Xeon CPU Max Series processors.
The system has more than 1,024 storage nodes (using DAOS, Intel's distributed asynchronous object storage), providing 220 terabytes (TB) of capacity at 31TBs of total bandwidth, and uses the HPE Slingshot high-performance fabric.
Intel noted that later this year, Aurora is expected to be the world's first supercomputer to achieve a theoretical peak performance of more than 2 exaflops (an exaflop is 1018 or a billion billion operations per second) when it enters the TOP500 list.
"Aurora is the first deployment of Intelâs Max Series GPU, the biggest Xeon Max CPU-based system, and the largest GPU cluster in the world," said Jeff McVeigh, Intel corporate vice president and general manager of the Super Compute Group.
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