JUWELS Booster -- A Supercomputer for Large-Scale AI Research

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2108.11976v1
• Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2021 21:37:02 GMT
• Title: JUWELS Booster -- A Supercomputer for Large-Scale AI Research
• Authors: Stefan Kesselheim, Andreas Herten, Kai Krajsek, Jan Ebert, Jenia Jitsev, Mehdi Cherti, Michael Langguth, Bing Gong, Scarlet Stadtler, Amirpasha Mozaffari, Gabriele Cavallaro, Rocco Sedona, Alexander Schug, Alexandre Strube, Roshni Kamath, Martin G. Schultz, Morris Riedel, Thomas Lippert
• Abstract summary: We present JUWELS Booster, a recently commissioned high-performance computing system at the J"ulich Supercomputing Center. We detail its system architecture, parallel, distributed model training, and benchmarks indicating its outstanding performance.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: In this article, we present JUWELS Booster, a recently commissioned high-performance computing system at the J\"ulich Supercomputing Center. With its system architecture, most importantly its large number of powerful Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) and its fast interconnect via InfiniBand, it is an ideal machine for large-scale Artificial Intelligence (AI) research and applications. We detail its system architecture, parallel, distributed model training, and benchmarks indicating its outstanding performance. We exemplify its potential for research application by presenting large-scale AI research highlights from various scientific fields that require such a facility.

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