eX3: Experimental Infrastructure for Exploration of Exascale Computing
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Wednesday, June 30, 2021 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM · 1 hr. (Africa/Abidjan)
Extreme Heterogeneity
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The Norwegian national e-infrastructure, eX3, is a five-year project (2018-2022) funded by the Research Council of Norway. It aims to provide an experimental infrastructure for exploration of exascale computing, to be used in both the established domains of computational science and the upcoming contexts of ML/AI. The infrastructure is operated by Simula Research Laboratory, leading a 9-partner consortium that has a substantial national footprint in research on, use of, and management of HPC services.
Due to the vibrant and quickly evolving landscape of hardware, the eX3 project has strategically divided the procurement and installation of equipment into three stages spread over the five-year period. Thus eX3 has maintained a competitive edge drawn from the latest hardware developments. A special emphasis has been on incorporating an extremely heterogeneous configuration, which spans over general-purpose CPUs (from different vendors), general-purpose accelerators (GPUs, FPGAs), domain-specific processors (two generations of IPU), different interconnect technologies (Infiniband, Gigabit Ethernet, PCIe-based networking), plus a variety of memory and storage solutions. The most prominent components of the eX3 infrastructure are a DGX-2 machine with 16x V100 GPUs, an IPU-POD with 64x GC2 IPUs, and an HGX-1 server with 8x A100 GPUs.
Since its official opening in April 2019, eX3 has attracted lots of research activities. The importance of eX3 is reflected by in total 43 research proposals that include eX3 as the (main) hardware testbed, submitted during 2019-2020. Two excellent examples are the newly funded EuroHPC proposals SparCity and MICROCARD.Visit the Project Website
- Are Magnus Bruaset (Simula Research Laboratory)
- Ernst Gunnar Gran (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, (NTNU))
- Tore Heide Larsen (Simula Research Laboratory)
- Xing Cai (Simula Research Laboratory)
Abstract:
The Norwegian national e-infrastructure, eX3, is a five-year project (2018-2022) funded by the Research Council of Norway. It aims to provide an experimental infrastructure for exploration of exascale computing, to be used in both the established domains of computational science and the upcoming contexts of ML/AI. The infrastructure is operated by Simula Research Laboratory, leading a 9-partner consortium that has a substantial national footprint in research on, use of, and management of HPC services.
Due to the vibrant and quickly evolving landscape of hardware, the eX3 project has strategically divided the procurement and installation of equipment into three stages spread over the five-year period. Thus eX3 has maintained a competitive edge drawn from the latest hardware developments. A special emphasis has been on incorporating an extremely heterogeneous configuration, which spans over general-purpose CPUs (from different vendors), general-purpose accelerators (GPUs, FPGAs), domain-specific processors (two generations of IPU), different interconnect technologies (Infiniband, Gigabit Ethernet, PCIe-based networking), plus a variety of memory and storage solutions. The most prominent components of the eX3 infrastructure are a DGX-2 machine with 16x V100 GPUs, an IPU-POD with 64x GC2 IPUs, and an HGX-1 server with 8x A100 GPUs.
Since its official opening in April 2019, eX3 has attracted lots of research activities. The importance of eX3 is reflected by in total 43 research proposals that include eX3 as the (main) hardware testbed, submitted during 2019-2020. Two excellent examples are the newly funded EuroHPC proposals SparCity and MICROCARD.Visit the Project Website
