Navy DSRC’s New Supercomputer Has 290,304 AMD EPYC Cores, 112 NVIDIA Volta V100 GPUs

[Tsing]

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One of the USDOD’s top computing providers is due for a massive upgrade in computational performance.



The Navy Department of Defense Supercomputing Resource Center (DSRC) has announced that it is getting a multi-million dollar Cray Shasta supercomputer capable of a healthy 12.8 petaFLOPS. That’s 12.8 quadrillion floating point operations per second.



Making that possible is “290,304 AMD EPYC (Rome) processor cores and 112 NVIDIA Volta V100 General-Purpose Graphics Processing Units (GPGPUs), interconnected by a 200 gigabit per second Cray Slingshot network.” It also features “590 total terabytes (TB) of memory and 14 petabytes (PB) of usable storage, including 1 PB of NVMe-based solid state storage.”



What this means is that the machine can run Crysis, but the Navy will be flexing its power for more important...

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[Grimlakin]

Keep in mind that a human brain is theoretically capable of 100 teraflops of calculations.. This system is on the order of 190 people... Or as smart as two of me. And they are putting it in charge of battle field predictions a and potentially command. Skynet?

 

[JosiahBradley]

Cores != CPUs or does it? Really an EPYC processor is a SoC. Terminology is weird.

 

[Tsing]

Cores != CPUs or does it? Really an EPYC processor is a SoC. Terminology is weird.

You're right. Title revised.

 

[David_Schroth]

Keep in mind that a human brain is theoretically capable of 100 teraflops of calculations.. This system is on the order of 190 people... Or as smart as two of me. And they are putting it in charge of battle field predictions a and potentially command. Skynet?

It can probably play Crysis.

 

[SeymourGore]

Not buying one until I see the FPSr verdict.

 

[Peter_Brosdahl]

At least it's a known winning combo top of the line AMD CPU/NVIDIA GPU.

 

[Grimlakin]

And I thought 64 cores was a lot...

Good god Imagine how expensive it would be to license SQL on that scale...

Lets see.. lets be REALLY nice and presume an INSANE contract.. for 10k per 2 cores..

HAHA... HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAA,,,, Weeeze... One BILLION, four hundred and fifty one MILLION, five hundred and twenty thousand dollars..

HAHAHAHAHAHHAA!!

Wheeeze...

Sorry that's just TOO **** funny.

Of course if they used ALL 64 core epyc CPU's... they would need 4536 of them. At 7522.00 each that purchase was 34,119,792 dollars. Presuming a 60% discount on price.. we're looking at 13,647,916.80.


For memory they are running about 130GB per 64 core socket so memory they can save some money on. Lets say they want that 8 channel goodness.. and lets call it 128gb of ram so that would be 8 16gb sticks per socket. And ECC ram. Middle of the road we're looking at 100 bucks a stick or 800 per socket. So 3,628,800 but after that 60 percent discount... 1,451,520 bucks.

Now lets look at those video cards...

There are a lot of models so lets say 10k per card. So easy math on this one 1,120,000 then with that 60 percent discount 448,000 dollars.

Before Chassis, power supply and board not to mention custom interconnects.. I think it's fair to say you're looking at a 500 million dollar system all told.


Even then you could buy THREE of these buildings with hardware for the base cost of the SQL license. LOL.