[petsc-dev] Fwd: [ECP-PIs] Updates on the planned Aurora and Frontier exascale systems

[Munson, Todd]

Plus no mention of MPI.  I wonder if that is an oversight or if we should ditch MPI as well...

Todd.


> On May 7, 2019, at 10:25 AM, Smith, Barry F. via petsc-dev <petsc-dev at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
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>   PETSc developers,
> 
>     Note that this machine will apparently not support either of our two current GPU backends: CUDA or ViennaCL/OpenCL ;-)
> 
>   Barry
> 
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>> Begin forwarded message:
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>> From: Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org>
>> Subject: Re: Fwd: [ECP-PIs] Updates on the planned Aurora and Frontier exascale systems
>> Date: May 7, 2019 at 10:12:39 AM CDT
>> To: "Smith, Barry F." <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov>, Ron Rahaman <rahaman at mcs.anl.gov>, "Schanen, Michel" <mschanen at anl.gov>, "Zhang, Hong" <hongzhang at anl.gov>, "Zhang, Junchao" <jczhang at mcs.anl.gov>, "Marin, Oana" <oanam at mcs.anl.gov>, "Balay, Satish" <balay at mcs.anl.gov>, Karl Rupp <me at karlrupp.net>, "Maldonado, Daniel Adrian" <maldonadod at anl.gov>
>> Cc: Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com>, Mark Adams <mfadams at lbl.gov>
>> 
>> Yes, also recommending OpenACC transition to OpenMP and showing
>> confidence in HIP over CUDA.
>> 
>> Spec sheet on the current generation of these GPUs.
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>>  https://www.amd.com/system/files/documents/radeon-instinct-mi60-datasheet.pdf
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>> Are they available in any cloud environments and/or is JLSE planning to get some?
>> 
>> "Smith, Barry F." <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> writes:
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>>>  First news I've seen on Frontier. It is not Nvidia!
>>> 
>>>  No mention of OpenCL!
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>>> 
>>> 
>>> Begin forwarded message:
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>>> From: ecp-pis--- via Ecp-pis <ecp-pis at elist.ornl.gov<mailto:ecp-pis at elist.ornl.gov>>
>>> Subject: [ECP-PIs] Updates on the planned Aurora and Frontier exascale systems
>>> Date: May 7, 2019 at 8:29:02 AM CDT
>>> To: ECP Executive Leadership Team <ecp-elt at ornl.gov<mailto:ecp-elt at ornl.gov>>, "ecp-pis at ornl.gov<mailto:ecp-pis at ornl.gov>" <ecp-pis at ornl.gov<mailto:ecp-pis at ornl.gov>>
>>> Cc: <ecp-pis at elist.ornl.gov<mailto:ecp-pis at elist.ornl.gov>>, "ecp-project-office at ornl.gov<mailto:ecp-project-office at ornl.gov>" <ecp-project-office at ornl.gov<mailto:ecp-project-office at ornl.gov>>
>>> Reply-To: <ecp-admin at exascaleproject.org<mailto:ecp-admin at exascaleproject.org>>
>>> 
>>> Folks - we’ll discuss this more during our next all-PI VTC, but FYI details of the Aurora and Frontier systems are becoming available, which is timely and will help us in honing our exascale plans moving into our CD-2 review this fall.
>>> 
>>> 
>>>  *   Aurora: https://aurora.alcf.anl.gov/
>>>  *   Frontier: https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/frontier/ (see also the attached spec sheet)
>>> 
>>> Doug
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