Nvidia最新的InfiniBand加速了高性能計算的發(fā)展

時間：2022-03-06 01:54:02 | 來源：行業(yè)動態(tài)

時間：2022-03-06 01:54:02 來源：行業(yè)動態(tài)

In other news revealed today, Nvidia said the academic research community has wasted little time in putting its latest supercomputer networking technology to use. Two universities have announced plans to plug into the Nvidias new Quantum-2 InfiniBand platform that was unveiled during last weeks GTC 2021 event.

Nvidia在今天發(fā)布的其他新聞里表示，學術(shù)研究界很快就將用上Nvidia旗下最新的超級計算機網(wǎng)絡技術(shù)。兩所大學已經(jīng)宣布切入Nvidia的新Quantum-2 InfiniBand平臺的計劃，新的Quantum-2 InfiniBand平臺是在上周的GTC 2021活動上公布的。

Nvidias InfiniBand is a computer networking communications standard used in high-performance computing for data flow between processors and input/output devices, known for its high throughput and very low latency.

Nvidia的InfiniBand是一種計算機網(wǎng)絡通信標準，主要用于高性能計算中處理器和輸入輸出設備之間的數(shù)據(jù)流，該標準以高吞吐量和極低的延遲著稱。

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The latest generation of InfiniBand, Nvidia Quantum-2, introduces new features that will accelerate the most demanding workloads in supercomputers. Quantum-2 doubles network speed while tripling the number of network ports available, meaning overall performance can be accelerated by up to three-times compared with existing systems.

最新一代的InfiniBand是Nvidia Quantum-2，Nvidia Quantum-2引入了新功能，可以加速超級計算機中最苛刻的工作負載。Quantum-2的網(wǎng)絡速度提高了一倍，同時Quantum-2的可用網(wǎng)絡端口數(shù)量提高了三倍，這意味著與現(xiàn)有系統(tǒng)相比，Quantum-2整體性能可加快三倍。

Among the first to deploy Quantum-2 InfiniBand will be Texas AM. The university said its planning to use the 400G InfiniBand network in its ACES supercomputer to connect researchers to a mix of five accelerators from four vendors.

德州農(nóng)工大學是首批部署Quantum-2 InfiniBand的大學。德州農(nóng)工大學表示正計劃在大學的ACES超級計算機中使用400G InfiniBand網(wǎng)絡，ACES超級計算機可將研究人員與來自四家供應商的五個加速器混合在一起。

Besides the obvious two-times jump in throughput from Nvidia Quantum-1 InfiniBand at 200G, it will provide improved total cost of ownership, beefed up in-network computing features and increased scaling, said Honggao Liu, ACESs principal investigator and project director.

ACES的主要研究人員和項目主任Honggao Liu表示，Quantum-2 InfiniBand除了在吞吐量上比200G的Nvidia Quantum-1 InfiniBand明顯躍升兩倍之外還將提供更優(yōu)的總體擁有成本及加強網(wǎng)絡內(nèi)的計算功能和提高擴展性。

The other early adopter is Mississippi State University, which is planning to deploy Quantum-2 InfiniBand to expand its Orion supercomputer that runs massive weather forecasting jobs for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The system was ranked as the fourth-largest academic supercomputer in the U.S. when it first went live in June 2019.

Quantum-2 InfiniBand的另一個早期采用者是密西西比州立大學，密西西比州立大學正計劃部署Quantum-2 InfiniBand擴展學校的Orion超級計算機，Orion超級計算機為美國國家海洋和大氣管理局運行大量的天氣預報工作負載。該系統(tǒng)在2019年6月首次上線時被列為美國第四大學術(shù)超級計算機。

HPC is going everywhere, said Gilad Shainer, senior vice president of marketing at Nvidia. That, he noted, will require the kind of cloud-native supercomputing Quantum-2 brings. Its bringing supercomputing into the cloud, he said.

Nvidia營銷高級副總裁Gilad Shainer表示，高性能計算將比比皆是。他指出，比比皆是的高性能計算需要隨Quantum-2而來的那種云原生超級計算，這樣就可以將超級計算帶入云端。

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