{"id":11218,"date":"2021-08-25T14:41:28","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T18:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=11218"},"modified":"2021-08-27T08:59:07","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T12:59:07","slug":"u-s-close-to-finalizing-deal-for-nvidia-supercomputer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/u-s-close-to-finalizing-deal-for-nvidia-supercomputer\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Close To Finalizing Deal For Nvidia Supercomputer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The United States Department of Energy is close to finalizing an agreement to buy a supercomputer called Polaris, powered by chips from Nvidia Corp and Advanced Micro Devices Inc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Reuters, Polaris will not replace the Intel-based Aurora machine, which is intended for the Argonne National Lab near Chicago, but will serve as a test machine for Argonne to prepare its software for the Intel machine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The latest move by the United States Department of Energy was necessary because of the delay in the Intel-powered Aurora supercomputer, which suffered a blow due to production problems related to Intel&#8217;s Sapphire Rapids server chips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The latest development means that while Intel and its partners have concluded a $500 million deal to supply a computer capable of performing 1 quintillion calculations per second, the first to be able to perform such a task will no longer be Intel&#8217;s Aurora, but a different machine in a different lab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the Polaris computer will be able to perform some exaflop calculations, it will do so at a slower speed and it will not be as powerful as the Intel machine.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-nvidia-amd\/u-s-near-deal-for-nvidia-supercomputer-as-it-waits-for-delayed-intel-machine-sources-idUSKBN2FP1SB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Reuters.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. is close to finalizing an agreement to buy a supercomputer called Polaris, powered by chips from Nvidia Corp and Advanced Micro Devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11218"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11238,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11218\/revisions\/11238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}