Wednesday, November 20, 2019

136 NVIDIA GPU-Accelerated Supercomputers Feature in TOP500 Ranking

The new wave of supercomputers is largely GPU accelerated, the latest TOP500 list of the world’s fastest systems shows. Of the 102 new supercomputers to join the closely watched ranking, 42 use NVIDIA GPU accelerators — including AiMOS, the most powerful addition to the list, which was released this week. Coming in at No. 24, AiMOS achieves 8 petaflops of computing on the High-Performance Linpack benchmark, a yardstick of supercomputing performance.