Taiwania 3 (supercomputer)
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 Taiwania 3 | |
| Date invented | 2020/11 |
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| Invented by | National Center for High-performance Computing |
| Inventer Type | National Agency (  Republic of China) |
| Manufacturer | Taiwan Fixed Network, Quanta Computer, ASUS Cloud |
| Introduced | 2020/11 |
| Type | Supercomputer |
| Processor | Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 CPU |
| Frequency | 2.4GHz |
| Memory | 172800GB main |
| Slots | 24 slots per QuantaPlex |
| Connection | NVIDIA Mellanox Interconnection |
| Ports | 4 ports / QuantaPlex |
| Power consumption | 165 warts per QuantaPlex |
| Speed | 2.7 quadrillion FLOPS |
Taiwania 3 (Traditional Chinese (Taiwan): 台灣杉三號) is one of the supercomputers made by Taiwan,.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][excessive citations] and also the newest one (August, 2021). It is placed in the National Center for High-performance Computing[11] of NARLabs. There are 50,400 cores in total with 900 nodes,[12][10] using Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 2.4GHz CPU (28 Cores/CPU)[10][13] and using CentOS as Operating System.[14] It is an open access for public supercomputer.[15][16] It is currently open access to scientists and more to do specific research after get permission from Taiwan's National Center for High-performance Computing.[12][17][12][18][10][19] This is the third supercomputer of the Taiwania series. It uses CentOS x86_64 7.8 as its system operator and Slurm Workload Manager as workflow manager to ensure better performance. Taiwania 3 uses InfiniBand HDR100 100Gbps high speed Internet connection to ensure better performance of the supercomputer. The main memory capability is 192GB. There's currently two Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 2.4GHz CPU (28 Cores/CPU) inside each node. The full calculation capability is 2.7PFLOPS[20]. It is launched into operation on November of 2020 before schedule due to the needed for COVID-19.[5][18][21] It is currently ranked number 227 on Top 500 list of June, 2021[14] and number 80 on Green 500 list[22]. It is manufactured by Quanta Computer, Taiwan Fixed Network, and ASUS Cloud.[14][17][23][24][25]
Capability and Specifications[edit]
This supercomputer's Rmax is 2297.6 TFLOPS, with Rpeak at 4354.6 TFLOPS[14] and Nmax at 4,354,560[14], costing 563.85 kW[14]. The housing is mainly designed and manufactured by ASUS Cloud[10][18][21], which has experiences on constructing supercomputer housing and storage device housing[26]
Software[edit]
Software details are listed below (all data are according to Top 500 and NCHC):
- Operating system : CentOS x86_64 7.8[27]
- Workload manager : Slurm Workload Manager[28]
- Compiler : Intel Parallel Studio XE Composer Edition for Fortran and C++ Linux 2020 Update 4
- Math library : Intel Math Kernel Library for Linux 2020 Update 4
- MPI : Intel MPI Library for Linux 2019 Update 9
Hardware[edit]
Hardware details are listed below (all data are according to Top 500 and NCHC):
- CPU : Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 2.4GHz CPU (28 Cores/CPU)[29][30]
- Main memory : 192GB/node (172800GB total)
- Interconnection : NVIDIA Mellanox InfiniBand HDR100[31][32]
Hardware basically uses :
QuantaPlex T42D-2U (4-Node) Dense Memory Multi-node Compute Server
manufactured by Quanta Computer[33].
Operating temperature: 5°C to 35°C (41°F to 95°F), operating relative humidity: 20% to 85%RH. It has two processors per node.[33]
The Intel Xeon CPU and memory mentioned above is inside it.
Speed[edit]
Speed details are listed below.
P.S. This machine relies on CPU to calculate.[34]
Accessibility[edit]
Taiwania series have always been available for everybody access through iService and pay according to their requested time and CPUs and GPUs.
Films Involved[edit]
Seqalu movie was filmed in collaboration with TWCC, a national service provided by Taiwan. TWCC includes enormous calculation resource provided by Taiwania supercomputer series. Taiwania 3 is one of the resource providere of the film. The talented programmers at National Centers for High-performance Computing of Taiwan designed the algorithms used in the simulations such as arrows and guns firing.
Biology and Medication[edit]
Taiwania 3 is a supercomputer aimed to help the biomedical development[35]. Taiwania 3 supercomputer was meant to help scientists find a solution to the COVID-19 pandemic[36][37][38]. It has also been connected to the Taiwanese biological laboratories and their data base. The laboratories must reach a certain level in order to make contact with the system.[39]
History[edit]
2019[edit]
In 2019, the NCHC started project on Taiwania 3 construction...[40][41]
2020[edit]
- November of 2020
Taiwania 3 supercomputer launched[5] officially by NCHC.[42][43] - November of 2020
Taiwania 3 supercomputer joins COVID-19 research[44][5][42][45]
2021[edit]
- May of 2021
outbreak of COVID-19 in Taiwan started[46][47] - June of 2021
Taiwania 3 grandly activates officially. - July 3rd of 2021
Tech V2.0 Coronavirus project last registration date.[48][49]
note that the deadline has been moved to 8/31[50] - September of 2021
unveiled collaboration to film Seqalu.[51][46]
Architecture[edit]
Taiwania 3 Supercomputer is a CPU-based supercomputer, with about fifty thousand cores of Intel Xeon CPUs. This supercomputer uses Linux as OS, just like any other Top 500 supercomputers. More information about supercomputer architecture, visit here!
Comparison with other Taiwania Supercomputers[edit]
Taiwania series is a family of supercomputers made by Taiwan during 21st century.
Taiwania 2 supercomputer, a GPU machine also made by the NCHC of Taiwan, has a capability of 9 PetaFLOPS, nearly 4 times greater compared with the 2.2 ~ 2.7 PetaFLOPS of Taiwania 3 (which uses mainly CPUs, just like Taiwania 1). The main difference between Taiwania 2 and 3 are the main calculators and objectives. Taiwania 2 is a GPU machine learning usage supercomputer, whereas Taiwania 3 is a CPU computing device for general scientific research usage. They are very different from head to toe.
Compare with Taiwania 2, Taiwania 3 is more alike with the Taiwania 1 supercomputer also of Taiwan. They both uses CPU architecture and are both more open access to the public (August, 2021). These two supercomputers both uses Intel CPUs to perform calculations. Their main difference is the capacity of the two supercomputers.[52] These three supercomputers are all currently part of iService systems and partially TWCC computing systems.
Taiwania 3 is a CPU Supercomputer made by Taiwan. It has total capacity of 2.2 PetaFLOPS according to NCHC of Taiwan. It is a 21st century HPC, meaning that it uses "Multitasking" to perform high performance computations. Other than using NVIDIA GPUs to boost capacity, this system uses Intel Xeon CPUs to calculate, making it closer to our regular life programming (but still a little bit different). Because it's using CPUs, the overall capacity on Machine learning is not as good as NVIDIA GPU Machine learning systems[53][54][55][56]
Environment[edit]
See Also[edit]
References[edit]
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- ↑ News, Taiwan. "Taiwania 2 ranked as 20th-most powerful supercomputer in world | Taiwan News | 2018-11-14 14:54:00". Taiwan News.
- ↑ "Taiwania 3 Supercomputer Powered by QCT Paves the Future of AI | QCT".
- ↑ Tu, Melody (May 31, 2019). "TAIWANIA 2 Supercomputer, Powered by NVIDIA, Comes Online | NVIDIA Blog". The Official NVIDIA Blog.
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- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4 14.5 "Taiwania 3 – QCT QuantaPlex T42D-2U/4N, Xeon Platinum 8280 28C 2.7GHz, InfiniBand HDR 100 | TOP500". www.top500.org.
- ↑ "「科技抗疫2.0」邀請各界一起加入抗疫行列 台灣杉三號啟用以支援抗疫專案". www.narlabs.org.tw. June 8, 2021.
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- ↑ 17.0 17.1 ""Anti-Pandemic Technology 2.0" Calls on Efforts from All Disciplines. Taiwania 3 Joins in Combatting the Outbreak". www.narlabs.org.tw. June 8, 2021.
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 "「科技抗疫2.0」邀請各界一起加入抗疫行列 台灣杉三號啟用以支援抗疫專案-國家高速網路與計算中心". www.nchc.org.tw.
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- ↑ "臺灣杉三號啟動助抗疫".
- ↑ "International Manufacturers Respond to NCHC in Combatting Pandemic QIAGEN, SCM, and MongoDB Join with Taiwan Supercomputer to Speed up Anti-COVID R&D".
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