Europe and Japan make separate commitments to new exascale supercomputer projects
by noreply@blogger.com (brian wang) from NextBigFuture.com on (#2HNGQ)
At the moment, EU industry provides about 5% of HPC resources worldwide, but consumes one third of them. In April 2016 in the European Cloud Initiative - part of the EU's strategy to digitise European industry - the Commission urged Member States to step up cooperation in HPC to boost Europe's scientific capabilities and industrial competitiveness. It also committed to develop a high-performance computing ecosystem based on European technology, including low power chips. The goal is to have exascale supercomputers based on European technology in the global top 3 by 2022.
World-class infrastructure will also support the European Open Science Cloud, which will offer Europe's 1.7 million researchers and 70 million science and technology professionals a virtual environment to store, share and re-use their data across disciplines and borders. Focusing initially on the scientific community, the user base of the cloud will over time be enlarged to the public and to businesses.
The target is to have by 2020 at least two pre-exascale computers and reach full exascale performance by 2023. The objective is also to define test-beds for HPC and big data applications that make use of these supercomputers for scientific, public administration and industrial purposes.
Japan starts another exascale supercomputer project
Japan is also a front-runner in the race for exascale; the nation has promised to stand up its first exascale machine, "Post-K" by early 2022. Post-K is the successor to the K computer, Japan's current reigning number-cruncher, and will be some 100 times faster.
Japan News revealed that another supercomputing project is also in the works, this one from " target=blank>emerging supercomputer maker ExaScaler Inc. and Keio University. Under the direction of ExaScaler CEO Dr. Motoaki Saito, the partners are developing an original supercomputer design with exascale aspirations.
Dr. Saito is the founder of three HPC companies, each targeting a key aspect of extreme-scale supercomputing:
1. PEZY Computing Co. Ltd. which is developing a manycore processor.
2. ExaScaler Inc., focused on highly-efficient liquid-cooling.
3. Ultra Memory, Inc., developing a 3D multi-layer memory system (see patent info).
PEZY and ExaScaler built one of the world's most energy-efficient supercomputers, Shoubu, which held the number one spot on the Green500 for three iterations of the bi-annual list (June 2015, November 2015 and June 2016). With a rating of 6.67 gigaflops-per-watt, Shoubu is currently number three on the most recent listing (having been surpassed by two Pascal GPU-powered machines). Installed at RIKEN, Shoubu is based on the companies' ZettaScaler-1.6 architecture. ZettaScaler-2.0 is due out in 2017
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World-class infrastructure will also support the European Open Science Cloud, which will offer Europe's 1.7 million researchers and 70 million science and technology professionals a virtual environment to store, share and re-use their data across disciplines and borders. Focusing initially on the scientific community, the user base of the cloud will over time be enlarged to the public and to businesses.
The target is to have by 2020 at least two pre-exascale computers and reach full exascale performance by 2023. The objective is also to define test-beds for HPC and big data applications that make use of these supercomputers for scientific, public administration and industrial purposes.
Japan starts another exascale supercomputer project
Japan is also a front-runner in the race for exascale; the nation has promised to stand up its first exascale machine, "Post-K" by early 2022. Post-K is the successor to the K computer, Japan's current reigning number-cruncher, and will be some 100 times faster.
Japan News revealed that another supercomputing project is also in the works, this one from " target=blank>emerging supercomputer maker ExaScaler Inc. and Keio University. Under the direction of ExaScaler CEO Dr. Motoaki Saito, the partners are developing an original supercomputer design with exascale aspirations.
Dr. Saito is the founder of three HPC companies, each targeting a key aspect of extreme-scale supercomputing:
1. PEZY Computing Co. Ltd. which is developing a manycore processor.
2. ExaScaler Inc., focused on highly-efficient liquid-cooling.
3. Ultra Memory, Inc., developing a 3D multi-layer memory system (see patent info).
PEZY and ExaScaler built one of the world's most energy-efficient supercomputers, Shoubu, which held the number one spot on the Green500 for three iterations of the bi-annual list (June 2015, November 2015 and June 2016). With a rating of 6.67 gigaflops-per-watt, Shoubu is currently number three on the most recent listing (having been surpassed by two Pascal GPU-powered machines). Installed at RIKEN, Shoubu is based on the companies' ZettaScaler-1.6 architecture. ZettaScaler-2.0 is due out in 2017
Read more