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Can Fujitsu beat Nvidia in the HPC race? www.networkworld.com

posted by  AkihabaraBot | 5 years, 5 months ago

Fujitsu is developing the A64FX, a 48-core Arm8 derivative specifically engineered for high-performance computing (HPC).
Rather than design general-purpose compute cores, Fujitsu has added compute engines specific to artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other technologies specific to the needs of HPC.
More important, there are four chips of High Bandwidth Memory 2 (HBM2), an expensive but very fast memory used only in high-end systems, connected to the CPU.
In HPC, memory bandwidth has been the bottleneck, and data intensive workloads like analytics, simulations, and machine learning are slowing them down.
Because Fujitsu struck a deal with Cray to make HPC servers using A64FX and sold under the Cray brand name.