Los Alamos Lab powers up Nvidia-laden Venado supercomputer
Promises up to ten AI exaFLOPs of grunt – if you turn down the resolution a bit
Systems
16 Apr 2024 | 4
Each of its 96 nodes has two six-core Intel Xeon X5650s, one NVIDIA Tesla C2050 GPU, and 48 GB of RAM, but the SGI “Fornax” supercomputer opened late September as part of Western Australia’s Pawsey Centre project is still a test bed in some ways. The demands of “big science” are so intensive, and the data sets so diverse …