Computer simulation has become a staple technique in many disciplines – so much so that it often described as the “third pillar” of the scientific method.
It is coming up on one year that the Summit supercomputer based on IBM POWER9 at Oak Ridge National Lab claimed the number one spot on the Top500 ranking.
In my last blog, we ran through an example showing how IBM Spectrum LSF now automatically detects the presence of NVIDIA GPUs on hosts in the cluster and performs the necessary configuration of the scheduler automatically.
It’s been a long time since I’ve posted to my goulash blog. I’ve not disappeared, rather I’ve been writing articles for the IBM Accelerated Insights solution channel on HPCWire.
The media has been alight with articles regarding the groundbreaking Summit supercomputer recently unveiled at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. It sports a mind boggling 9,216 IBM POWER9 CPUs, 27,648 NVIDIA Tesla GPUs, underpinned with 250 petabytes of storage.