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Japan Unveils Next-Generation, Pascal-Based AI Supercomputer (nextplatform.com)
The Tokyo Institute of Technology has announced plans to launch Japan's "fastest AI supercomputer" this summer. The supercomputer is called Tsubame 3.0 and will use Nvidia's latest Pascal-based Tesla P100 GPU accelerators to double its performance over its predecessor, the Tsubame 2.5. Slashdot reader kipperstem77 shares an excerpt from a report via The Next Platform: With all of those CPUs and GPUs, Tsubame 3.0 will have 12.15 petaflops of peak double precision performance, and is rated at 24.3 petaflops single precision and, importantly, is rated at 47.2 petaflops at the half precision that is important for neural networks employed in deep learning applications. When added to the existing Tsubame 2.5 machine and the experimental immersion-cooled Tsubame-KFC system, TiTech will have a total of 6,720 GPUs to bring to bear on workloads, adding up to a total of 64.3 aggregate petaflops at half precision. (This is interesting to us because that means Nvidia has worked with TiTech to get half precision working on Kepler GPUs, which did not formally support half precision.)
Kepler Fluid Cooled, though Tsubame is a kind of bird and the computers are indeed immersed in oil.
Also Japan has an unusual tradition of eating KFC for Christmas with reservations made months in advance.
Umm...is this the Pascal as in the programming language?
Does anyone still program in Pascal? The last time I saw it on a resume was more than 20 years ago.
Anyway, this supercomputer has nothing to do with the Pascal programming language. It is built using NVidia Pascal GPUs.