Getting access to world fastest super computer SUMMIT and also setting up a developer Power box on your own ..

1. April 2019
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Oak Ridge National Labs is Looking to Partner with Universities on Summit
Oak Ridge National Labs is looking to partner with universities on
projects for the advancement of science. If your university has a
project that focuses on the advancement of science, Artificial
Intelligence, or problem solving, you may be eligible to work on
Summit. Examples of potential fields include: genomics, bioenergy,
human health, high-energy physics, materials discovery, cancer
surveillance, and systems biology.
In June of 2018, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge
National Laboratory unveiled Summit as the world’s most powerful
and smartest scientific supercomputer. It was developed by IBM and
is currently the fastest supercomputer in the world. Dedicated to
open science, Summit will drive scientific study and discovery as
one of the world’s most powerful computers by enabling five to 10
times the computational performance of its predecessor, Titan.
With a peak performance of 200,000 trillion calculations per
second—or 200 petaflops, Summit is eight times more powerful than
ORNL’s previous top-ranked system, Titan. For certain scientific
applications, Summit is also be capable of more than three billion
mixed precision calculations per second, or 3.3 exaops. Summit
provides unprecedented computing power for research in energy,
advanced materials and artificial intelligence (AI), among other
domains, enabling scientific discoveries that were previously
impractical or impossible.
Do you want to get onto this fastest super computer and also run
your AI/HPC workloads across thousands of Power Processors as
well as GPUs? For more information or an application to get access
to the system, please contact Ganesan Narayanasamy.
Specifications and Features
• Processor: IBM POWER9™ (2/node)
• GPUs: 27,648 NVIDIA Volta V100s (6/node)
• Nodes: 4,608
• Node Performance: 42TF
• Memory/node: 512GB DDR4 + 96GB HBM2
• NV Memory/node: 1600GB
• Total System Memory: >10PB DDR4 + HBM + Non-volatile
• Interconnect Topology: Mellanox EDR 100G InfiniBand, Non-
blocking Fat Tree
• Peak Power Consumption: 13MW
“Summit takes accelerated computing to the next level, with more
computing power, more memory, an enormous high-performance file
system and fast data paths to tie it all together. That means researchers
will be able to get more accurate results faster,” said Jeff Nichols,
ORNL associate laboratory director for computing and computational
sciences. “Summit’s AI-optimized hardware also gives researchers an
incredible platform for analyzing massive datasets and creating
intelligent software to accelerate the pace of discovery.”
Summit is part of the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, a
DOE Office of Science User Facility located at ORNL.

2. Build Your Own Low-Cost PowerAI Development Solution with Raptor
Professors, if your students like to build their own workstation computers and want to explore developing on Power Systems, there is now a
low- cost solution. Your students can apply Computer Vision AI-Training to their coursework. Students can now experience the ease of
leveraging Artificial Intelligence capabilities in their respective fields and accelerate their learning on a Raptor system. IBM has partnered
with Raptor Computing Systems to bring award winning PowerAI Vision software through a low- cost appliance. Schools can order hardware
directly from Raptor. Power AI Vision is pre-installed to get plug-n-play experience. Go to Raptor Computing Systems to learn more.
Raptor Tallos II Development System:
• Get PowerAI Vision OnTheHub for your Raptor system
• A single Talos™ II Lite EATX mainboard
• One 4-core IBM POWER9 CPU
• 32GB DDR4 Memory
• One NVIDIA® RTX 2070 GPU
• 128GB internal NVMe storage
• Power AI Vision and Raptor:
– Research artificial intelligence applied to the visual world
– Develop models to unlock, see and understand visual data
– Intuitive toolset to label, train, and deploy deep learning vision
models without coding
– Includes the most popular deep learning frameworks
IBM Power Meetups
IBM has started a number of Power related meetup groups, where you can meet key IBM
experts in Power related topics, as well as other students and clients who are interested in
Power. Feel free to join any of the groups and attend meetings. If you want additional
information or would like to volunteer to present an interesting topic, please contact the group owner
through the Meetup application at https://www.meetup.com/
Meetup Groups
IBM AI Austin; Austin, TX. Next event is Wednesday, April 10
IBM AI Bay Area; San Francisco, CA
IBM AI Dallas; Dallas, TX
IBM AI Minneapolis; Minneapolis, MN
IBM AI Philly; Philadelphia, PA. Next event is Tuesday, April 16
IBM AI Washington DC; Washington, DC
IBM AI New York City; New York, NY
Georgia IBM Power Systems User Group; Atlanta, GA
IBM Power Systems Users; Southfield, MI
Power Systems Greater Toronto Area; Toronto, ON. Next event is Wednesday, April 24
IBM South Florida Power Technology; Boca Raton, FL
IBM Power Servers and Technology; St. Louis, MO
IBM Technology Meetup; Washington, DC
NYC IBM Power Systems User Group; New York, NY
Richmond, VA IBM Power Systems User Group (AIX, IBM i, Linux); Richmond, VA. Next event
is Wednesday, April 17