{"id":2846,"date":"2021-09-16T23:17:48","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T23:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hpc.mk\/?p=2846"},"modified":"2021-09-16T23:17:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T23:17:53","slug":"worlds-most-powerful-ai-capable-supercomputer-at-ncc-switzerland-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hpc.mk\/index.php\/2021\/09\/16\/worlds-most-powerful-ai-capable-supercomputer-at-ncc-switzerland-2\/","title":{"rendered":"WORLD\u2019S MOST POWERFUL AI-CAPABLE SUPERCOMPUTER at NCC Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>10. May 2021<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cAlps\u201d system to advance research across climate, physics, life sciences with 7x more powerful AI capabilities than current world-leading system for AI on MLPerf.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and NVIDIA today announced that they are creating what is expected to be the world\u2019s most powerful AI-capable supercomputer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Planned to come online in 2023, the \u2018Alps\u2019 system infrastructure will replace CSCS\u2019s existing Piz Daint supercomputer and serve as a general-purpose system open to the broad community of researchers in Switzerland and the rest of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>It will enable breakthrough research on a wide range of fields, including climate and weather, materials sciences, astrophysics, computational fluid dynamics, life sciences, molecular dynamics, quantum chemistry and particle physics, as well as domains like economics and social sciences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Alps will be built by HPE based on the new HPE Cray EX supercomputer product line, which is a next-generation high performance computing (HPC) architecture designed from the ground up to efficiently harness insights from vast, ever-increasing amounts of complex data. It features the HPE Cray software stack for a software-defined supercomputing experience, as well as the NVIDIA HGX\u2122 supercomputing platform, including NVIDIA GPUs, the NVIDIA HPC SDK and the new Arm-based NVIDIA Grace\u2122 CPU, also announced today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the full press release&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cscs.ch\/science\/computer-science-hpc\/2021\/cscs-hewlett-packard-enterprise-and-nvidia-announce-worlds-most-powerful-ai-capable-supercomputer\/\">&gt;here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10. May 2021 \u201cAlps\u201d system to advance research across climate, physics, life sciences with 7x more powerful AI capabilities than current world-leading system for AI on MLPerf. The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and NVIDIA today announced that they are creating what is expected to be the world\u2019s most powerful AI-capable supercomputer. Planned to come online in 2023, the \u2018Alps\u2019 system infrastructure will replace CSCS\u2019s existing Piz Daint supercomputer and serve as a general-purpose system open to the broad community of researchers in Switzerland and the rest of the world. It will enable breakthrough research on a wide range of fields, including climate and weather, materials sciences, astrophysics, computational fluid dynamics, life sciences, molecular dynamics, quantum chemistry and particle physics, as well as domains like economics and social sciences. Alps will be built by HPE based on the new HPE Cray EX supercomputer product line, which is a next-generation high performance computing (HPC) architecture designed from the ground up to efficiently harness insights from vast, ever-increasing amounts of complex data. It features the HPE Cray software stack for a software-defined supercomputing experience, as well as the NVIDIA HGX\u2122 supercomputing platform, including NVIDIA GPUs, the NVIDIA HPC SDK and the new Arm-based NVIDIA Grace\u2122 CPU, also announced today. Read the full press release&nbsp;&gt;here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"views":378,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hpc.mk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hpc.mk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hpc.mk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hpc.mk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hpc.mk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hpc.mk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hpc.mk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hpc.mk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hpc.mk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hpc.mk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}