It’s freezing cold in Northern Europe, but it’s also a world-renowned salmon-producing area. Now it’s about to develop AI. Is there any hope for AI+salmon? Some brothers, the Norwegians really use their most powerful supercomputer to raise fish. This week, Norwegian researchers achieved a pioneering feat and built the country's most powerful Olivia supercomputer. This is an AI supercomputer built by HPE for Sigma2, Norway's national scientific computing department. It uses AMD's CPU and NVIDIA's GPU graphics card acceleration.
The Olivia supercomputer is composed of 504 AMD Turin EPYC processors and 304 NVIDIA Grace Hopper, as well as a 5.3PB capacity storage system.The final performance was 13.2PFLOPS, ranking 134th among the TOP500 supercomputers.
Although this ranking is not high, it is strong enough for Norway, which has increased the country's supercomputing performance by 16 times in one fell swoop.
The main provider of computing power is Grace Hopper, which is composed of 72-core ARM CPU core Grace and H100 GPU, and 144GB HBM video memory. Therefore, it is not only the most powerful supercomputer in Norway, but also one of the most energy-efficient supercomputers. It consumes 30% less power than the previous generation supercomputer.
Although power consumption is low, supercomputer liquid cooling systems still generate a large amount of waste heat. Therefore, in order to utilize this waste heat,Sigma2 cooperates with local salmon farms to use the hot water generated by these heat dissipations to provide hot water for salmon farming.Now AI and fish can have both.
