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The High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, known as HLRS, is adding some Nvidia Corp.-powered oomph to its Hawk supercomputer, which is already considered the fastest general-purpose machine for industrial production in Europe.
The Hawk was installed earlier this year and is seen as HLRS’ flagship supercomputer. It’s based on a Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.-Apollo system and currently ranks as the 16th most powerful supercomputer in the world. It’s also the fastest system in Europe that’s built purely on a central processing unit architecture.
That will soon change, though, as Hawk is about to be turbocharged with 192 of Nvidia’s latest A100 graphics processing units linked via a Mellanox InfiniBand network. The A100 was launched earlier this year and is said to be 20 times more powerful than Nvidia’s previous GPU, the Volta. It’s designed for the most advanced artificial intelligence, data analytics and cloud-based graphics workloads.