🇪🇺 Europe's First Exascale Supercomputer Will Run on ARM Instead of x86
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「 Rhea is based on ARM's Neoverse V1 CPU design, which was developed specifically for high-performance computing (HPC) applications with 72 cores. It supports HBM2e high-bandwidth memory, as well as DDR5, and the cache tops out at an impressive 160MB. Intel recently stepped up its efforts in Europe with a major manufacturing operation launching in Germany 」 https://www.extremetech.com/computing/europes-first-exascale-supercomputer-will-run-on-arm-instead-of-x86
🌐 Did you know that Europe is home to 3 of the world's top 5 supercomputers?
And guess what? They're about to become accessible to AI start-ups!
Their use already brings new opportunities to:
🔸 improve quality of life of Europeans,
🔸 advance science,
🔸 boost industrial competitiveness,
🔸 ensure Europe’s technological autonomy, and
🔸 help SMEs develop.
Thanks to our investment in the last years, Europe has now become a leader in supercomputing!
It's just fascinating to be to see what these huge #HPC machines can do.
#EuroHPC is a major development I would say getting comparable with international energy, transport systems. It has major implications for sustainability and even sovereignty. It's great that it was recognized and pursued.
But still, people do not know enough about what it does. Even I, working with institutional #HPC for decades, knew little about national and international scale providers.
Today, Deucalion, the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking #supercomputer located in #Portugal, was inaugurated by the Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa at the University of Minho in Guimarães
Deucalion is a petascale Bull Sequana system by Eviden with #ARM#A64FX CPUs (first #EuroHPC supercomputer based on Arm)