Selene (supercomputer)

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Selene is a supercomputer developed by Nvidia, capable of achieving 63.460 petaflops, ranking as the fifth fastest supercomputer in the world, when it entered the list (now sixth).[1][2][3][4] Selene is based on the Nvidia DGX system consisting of AMD CPUs, Nvidia A100 GPUs, and Mellanox HDDR networking.[5][3]

Selene utilizing 1080 AMD Epyc CPUs and 4320 A100 GPUs is used to train BERT, the natural language processor, in less than 16 seconds, which usually takes most smaller systems about 20 minutes to execute. IEEE Spectrum reported that as per December 2021 among all the commercially available supercomputing systems Selene topped all the results of MLPerf benchmark,[6] which is the benchmark developed by the consortium of artificial intelligence developers from academia, research labs, and industry aiming to unbiasedly evaluate the training and inference performance for hardware, software, and services used for AI.[7]

Selene is deployed by the Argonne National Laboratory to research different ways to end the coronavirus. It has been used to tackle problems around the concepts of protein docking and quantum chemistry, which are vital to developing an understanding of the coronavirus and a potential cure for it.[8][9]

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  1. ^ "Top500: Fugaku Keeps Crown, Nvidia's Selene Climbs to #5". HPCwire. 2020-11-16. Retrieved 2021-06-17.
  2. ^ Kobie, Nicole. "NVIDIA and the battle for the future of AI chips". Wired. ISSN 1357-0978. Retrieved 2021-06-17.
  3. ^ a b Strategy, Moor Insights and. "NVIDIA Provides More Details On Selene Supercomputer". Forbes. Retrieved 2021-06-17.
  4. ^ Freund, Karl. "NVIDIA Continues To Evolve, From Chips To Software To AI Data Centers". Forbes. Retrieved 2021-06-17.
  5. ^ "Nvidia Nabs #7 Spot on Top500 with Selene, Launches A100 PCIe Cards". HPCwire. 2020-06-22. Retrieved 2021-09-28.
  6. ^ "NVIDIA: MLPerf AI Benchmarks". NVIDIA. Retrieved 2021-12-13.
  7. ^ "Is AI Training Outstripping Moore's Law?". IEEE Spectrum. 2021-12-02. Retrieved 2021-12-13.
  8. ^ "Nvidia Built Its Selene Supercomputer for Coronavirus Research in Just Three Weeks (Silicon Angle)". Informatics Institute. 2020-08-17. Retrieved 2021-12-13.
  9. ^ "Nvidia built its Selene supercomputer for coronavirus research in just 3 weeks". SiliconANGLE. 2020-08-14. Retrieved 2021-12-13.

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