On Wed, 8 May 2019 06:54:38 +1000 Lance Wilson via Beowulf <beowulf@beowulf.org> wrote:
Hi @ all, > The other community that will struggle is AI/ML as they are pushing > very hard into the CUDA space. yes, however https://rocm.github.io/tensorflow.html There are some benchmarks out there which look very promising. Cheers, miroslav > It's very interesting to see the design choices! At least in the > materials characterization space most of the code is based on CUDA, > so this system will be useless for that community except for the > cpus. Almost none of the software development is done using AMD, so > processor optimisations either. It's good to see more competition but > I'm not sure it's actually helping the researchers. > > The other community that will struggle is AI/ML as they are pushing > very hard into the CUDA space. There are very researchers that I've > seen at SuperComputing or locally that are using cpus for their > research. AMD gpus don't appear to have any capability in this area > and will need to do an awful lot to catch up. It seems a lot of money > to be spent on a limited use case machine. > > I'd be keen to hear others experiences with AMD cpu and gpu systems? > > Cheers, > > Lance > -- > Dr Lance Wilson > Characterisation Virtual Laboratory (CVL) Coordinator & > Senior HPC Consultant > Ph: 03 99055942 (+61 3 99055942) > Mobile: 0437414123 (+61 4 3741 4123) > Multi-modal Australian ScienceS Imaging and Visualisation Environment > (www.massive.org.au) > Monash University > > > On Wed, 8 May 2019 at 06:44, Jörg Saßmannshausen < > sassy-w...@sassy.formativ.net> wrote: > > > Hi Prentice, > > > > that looks interesting and I hope it means I will finally get the > > neutron structure which was measured last year there! :-) > > > > On a more serious note: I think it is interesting that they are > > using AMD for > > both the CPUs and GPUs. It sounds at least very fast of what they > > want to build, lets hope their design will work as planned as well. > > > > All the best from London > > > > Jörg > > > > Am Dienstag, 7. Mai 2019, 10:32:42 BST schrieb Prentice Bisbal via > > Beowulf: > > > ORNL's Frontier System has been announced: > > > > > > > > https://www.hpcwire.com/2019/05/07/cray-amd-exascale-frontier-at-oak-ridge/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin > > Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) > > visit https://beowulf.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > > _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit https://beowulf.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
