Intel today announced that
'With innovative solutions optimized for deep learning operations and AI workloads, Habana accelerators are ideal choices to power Voyager's forthcoming AI research. We look forward to partnering with Habana, Intel and Supermicro to bring this uniquely efficient class of compute capabilities to the Voyager program, giving academic researchers access to one of the most capable AI-focused systems available today.'
How It Works: The Voyager supercomputer will use Habana's unique interconnectivity technology to efficiently scale AI capacity with 336 Gaudi processors for training and 16 Habana Goya processors for AI inference. Gaudi processors for AI training are architected for scaling large supercomputer training systems and are the industry's only AI processor to natively integrate ten 100-gigabit Ethernet ports of RoCE RDMA v2 on chip, enabling flexibility of scaling and reduction of throughput bottlenecks that can limit scaling capacity.
'We are honored that Habana processors have been selected to accelerate compute workloads that will run on SDSC's Voyager supercomputer,' said
Why It's Important: The first three years of Voyager's operation will be the Testbed Phase, during which SDSC will work with select research teams from astronomy, climate sciences, chemistry, particle physics and other fields to gain AI experience and insights leveraging Voyager's unique features. The documentation developed during the Testbed Phase will serve as a resource for an expanded user base.
'The level of performance and efficiency that Voyager will require is precisely what Intel architectures are designed for,' said
About the Technology: Voyager will leverage the following AI systems:
Supermicro X12 Gaudi AI Training System featuring eight Gaudi HL-205 cards paired with Intel's newest high performance dual-socket 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors.
Supermicro SuperServer 4029GP-T featuring eight Goya HL-100 PCIe cards for AI inference, paired with dual-socket 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors.
'Combining Supermicro's advanced application-optimized server and storage hardware with Habana's AI training and inference products is the best solution for SDSC's multiyear Voyager AI project,' said
The Voyager supercomputer buildout, as well as ongoing community support and operations, are funded by a grant from the
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