The ACCESS ecosystem continues to grow through the U.S. National Science Foundation’s funding. The newest expansion comes to the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) in the form of late-model powerful NVIDIA H100 graphics processing units (GPUs). The NSF awarded PSC $4.9 million to expand its already powerful Bridges-2 supercomputer. The new GPU units will enhance PSC’s ability to support research utilizing Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML).
Bridges-2 is very popular with the scientific community. This expansion improves this already positive experience by offering more options for AI workloads. We can’t wait to see the science impact these new servers will enable.
–Barr von Oehsen, Ph.D, Director of PSC
Bridges-2 will soon have a new pod of 10 HPE Cray 670 nodes, with eight H100-SXM5-80GB and 2TB node memory each, interconnected by a high-performance Infiniband network.
“Bridges-2 has already enabled many impactful ML projects and projects involving ML and HPC using the existing V100-based GPU nodes,” said Sergiu Sanielevici, Ph.D, Director of Support for Scientific Applications at PSC and Principal Investigator in the Bridges-2 project. “Augmenting this capability with H100-based GPU nodes will significantly improve the performance of our community’s ML and HPC workloads.”
You can read more about PSC’s new hardware here: $4.9-Million NSF Award Funds Major Enhancement to Bridges-2 System