Indian prime minister Narendra Modi yesterday devoted three new supercomputers, and made the machines an emblem of his financial, social, and business insurance policies.
These emphases imply Modi did not element the tech specs of the three “PARAM Rudra” machines – however the orgs that may run them have revealed some information.
India’s Nationwide Centre for Radio Astrophysics has revealed that its machine options “a number of hundreds of Intel CPUs and 90 state-of-the-art Nvidia A100 GPUs, 35 terabytes of reminiscence, and two petabytes of storage.”
The A100 will not be state-of-the-art – Nvidia’s present champ is the H100 and the H200 will arrive any week now.
The S.N. Bose Centre for Fundamental Sciences mentioned an 838 TFLOPS system in a social media put up concerning the PM’s launch.
The Inter-College Accelerator Centre seems to not have disclosed the disposition of its machine, however has beforehand teased a three-petaflop machine constructed on Intel Xeon 2nd Gen scalable processors with as much as 24 cores every, packing 4 petabytes of storage capability and hooked as much as a 240Gbit/sec interconnect.
That spec sheet is notable as a result of it matches information in printed documents [PDF] that describe [PDF] the spec for India’s first-gen Rudra-class machines as using:
- A Rudra half-width server motherboard design that may be constructed into machines which can be both 1U or 2U, permitting up 64 servers in a rack with 40MW energy draw, and packing the next {hardware}:
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- Two second-gen Xeon Scalable processors (Cascade Lake circa 2019);
- Two unspecified GPUs;
- Two SSDs on U.2 connectors;
- A single NIC along with two preinstalled 10Gbit/sec Ethernet ports;
- The “Trinetra” interconnect – a made-in-India tech that provides six 100Gbit/sec full duplex interfaces;
- Domestically developed direct liquid cooling tech.
Second-gen Rudra machines help fourth-gen Xeons and 4 GPUs.
A deliberate third technology of Rudra machines will use a 96-core processor designed by India’s Centre for Improvement of Superior Computing utilizing the Arm 8.4 structure and constructed by TSMC on its 5nm course of.
The Register cannot think about Modi wouldn’t have trumpeted the arrival of that processor in these supers. We’re guessing they’re nonetheless within the works.
This launch continues to be an enormous deal for India – and Modi – because it provides to the nationwide supercomputing fleet and means regionally designed tech has been deployed. Given India’s dimension and fast tempo of growth, HPC distributors might surprise what they should do to get into the market.
Modi additionally flipped the swap on an HPC system devoted to climate and local weather analysis. Particulars are once more scarce, however the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology has said the system runs in two areas: one with 11.77 PETAflops capability and 33 petabytes of storage, and the opposite with 8.24 PetaFLOPS and 24 petabytes. Each run alongside a 1.9 PetaFLOP machine devoted to AI and ML. ®
