Nvidia最新的InfiniBand加速了高性能计算的发展

时间：2022-03-06 01:54:02 | 来源：行业动态

时间：2022-03-06 01:54:02 来源：行业动态

In other news revealed today, Nvidia said the academic research community has wasted little time in putting its latest supercomputer networking technology to use. Two universities have announced plans to plug into the Nvidias new Quantum-2 InfiniBand platform that was unveiled during last weeks GTC 2021 event.

Nvidia在今天发布的其他新闻里表示，学术研究界很快就将用上Nvidia旗下最新的超级计算机网络技术。两所大学已经宣布切入Nvidia的新Quantum-2 InfiniBand平台的计划，新的Quantum-2 InfiniBand平台是在上周的GTC 2021活动上公布的。

Nvidias InfiniBand is a computer networking communications standard used in high-performance computing for data flow between processors and input/output devices, known for its high throughput and very low latency.

Nvidia的InfiniBand是一种计算机网络通信标准，主要用于高性能计算中处理器和输入输出设备之间的数据流，该标准以高吞吐量和极低的延迟着称。

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The latest generation of InfiniBand, Nvidia Quantum-2, introduces new features that will accelerate the most demanding workloads in supercomputers. Quantum-2 doubles network speed while tripling the number of network ports available, meaning overall performance can be accelerated by up to three-times compared with existing systems.

最新一代的InfiniBand是Nvidia Quantum-2，Nvidia Quantum-2引入了新功能，可以加速超级计算机中最苛刻的工作负载。Quantum-2的网络速度提高了一倍，同时Quantum-2的可用网络端口数量提高了三倍，这意味着与现有系统相比，Quantum-2整体性能可加快三倍。

Among the first to deploy Quantum-2 InfiniBand will be Texas AM. The university said its planning to use the 400G InfiniBand network in its ACES supercomputer to connect researchers to a mix of five accelerators from four vendors.

德州农工大学是首批部署Quantum-2 InfiniBand的大学。德州农工大学表示正计划在大学的ACES超级计算机中使用400G InfiniBand网络，ACES超级计算机可将研究人员与来自四家供应商的五个加速器混合在一起。

Besides the obvious two-times jump in throughput from Nvidia Quantum-1 InfiniBand at 200G, it will provide improved total cost of ownership, beefed up in-network computing features and increased scaling, said Honggao Liu, ACESs principal investigator and project director.

ACES的主要研究人员和项目主任Honggao Liu表示，Quantum-2 InfiniBand除了在吞吐量上比200G的Nvidia Quantum-1 InfiniBand明显跃升两倍之外还将提供更优的总体拥有成本及加强网络内的计算功能和提高扩展性。

The other early adopter is Mississippi State University, which is planning to deploy Quantum-2 InfiniBand to expand its Orion supercomputer that runs massive weather forecasting jobs for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The system was ranked as the fourth-largest academic supercomputer in the U.S. when it first went live in June 2019.

Quantum-2 InfiniBand的另一个早期采用者是密西西比州立大学，密西西比州立大学正计划部署Quantum-2 InfiniBand扩展学校的Orion超级计算机，Orion超级计算机为美国国家海洋和大气管理局运行大量的天气预报工作负载。该系统在2019年6月首次上线时被列为美国第四大学术超级计算机。

HPC is going everywhere, said Gilad Shainer, senior vice president of marketing at Nvidia. That, he noted, will require the kind of cloud-native supercomputing Quantum-2 brings. Its bringing supercomputing into the cloud, he said.

Nvidia营销高级副总裁Gilad Shainer表示，高性能计算将比比皆是。他指出，比比皆是的高性能计算需要随Quantum-2而来的那种云原生超级计算，这样就可以将超级计算带入云端。

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