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Cray just won a $600M bid for Oak Ridge National Labs' new exaflop HPC cluster using AMD Epyc/Radeon. Most IB cards come from Intel and Mellanox (recently purc
by aetimmes 7y ago
Cray just won a $600M bid for Oak Ridge National Labs' new exaflop HPC cluster using AMD Epyc/Radeon.
Most IB cards come from Intel and Mellanox (recently purchased by NVidia).
IB is a commodity, sure, but it's becoming increasingly tied into the Intel/NVidia ecosystem, and having the ability to go with another interconnect/processor architecture is a powerful strategic advantage.
- gnufx 7y agoAs far as I know, Intel no longer does the IB-compatiable Truscale, or whatever it was called finally. It's OPA now.
- pinewurst 7y agoIt’s funny then that Omni-Path originated with Intel’s purchase of the Cray interconnect team back in 2012. https://newsroom.intel.com/news-releases/intel-acquires-industry-leading-high-performance-computing-interconnect-technology-and-expertise/#gs.cmt9dr https://newsroom.intel.com/news-releases/intel-acquires-indu...
- BooneJS 7y agoAnd the Q-Logic IB business.