Chatsworth, CA — DDN, provider of artificial intelligence (AI) and data management software and hardware solutions enabling Intelligent Infrastructure, today announced that its AI-focused storage solution, EXAScaler, has been adopted as the dedicated storage of the supercomputer system “AI Bridging Green Cloud Infrastructure,” which is currently being developed between Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science […]
DDN’s Storage Adopted for ‘AI Bridging Green Cloud Infrastructure’ Supercomputer in Japan
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The ABCI Supercomputer: World’s First Open AI Computing Infrastructure
September 4, 2019 by
Shinichiro Takizawa from AIST gave this talk at the MVAPICH User Group. “ABCI is the world’s first large-scale Open AI Computing Infrastructure, constructed and operated by AIST, Japan. It delivers 19.9 petaflops of HPL performance and world’ fastest training time of 1.17 minutes in ResNet-50 training on ImageNet datasets as of July 2019. In this talk, we focus on ABCI’s network architecture and communication libraries available on ABCI and shows their performance and recent research achievements.”
Converging HPC, Big Data, and AI at the Tokyo Institute of Technology
January 4, 2018 by
Satoshi Matsuoka from the Tokyo Institute of Technology gave this talk at the NVIDIA booth at SC17. “TSUBAME3 embodies various BYTES-oriented features to allow for HPC to BD/AI convergence at scale, including significant scalable horizontal bandwidth as well as support for deep memory hierarchy and capacity, along with high flops in low precision arithmetic for deep learning.”
Fujitsu to Build 37 Petaflop AI Supercomputer for AIST in Japan
October 9, 2017 by
Nikkei in Japan reports that Fujitsu is building a 37 Petaflop supercomputer for the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). “Targeted at Deep Learning workloads, the machine will power the AI research center at the University of Tokyo’s Chiba Prefecture campus. The new Fujitsu system feature will comprise 1,088 servers, 2,176 Intel Xeon processors, and 4,352 NVIDIA GPUs.”
Radio Free HPC Reviews the SC16 Student Cluster Competition Configurations & Results
December 5, 2016 by
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team reviews the results from SC16 Student Cluster Competition. “This year, the advent of clusters with the new Nvidia Tesla P100 GPUs made a huge impact, nearly tripling the Linpack record for the competition. For the first-time ever, the team that won top honors also won the award for achieving highest performance for the Linpack benchmark application. The team “SwanGeese” is from the University of Science and Technology of China. In traditional Chinese culture, the rare Swan Goose stands for teamwork, perseverance and bravery.”
