ORNL Experimental Computing Laboratory (ExCL)
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Recent news from ExCL
Our Experimental Computing Laboratory (https://excl.ornl.gov) is pleased to announce the availability of the Intel Optane Memory Server (Apache Pass) for software research and development, and benchmarking and evaluation of deep learning and computational science applications. This server is designed with the 1.5 TB of Intel Optane memory (in memory DIMM slots) and 384 GiB of …
Our Experimental Computing Laboratory (https://excl.ornl.gov) is pleased to announce the availability of the AMD Radeon VII GPU for software research and development, and benchmarking and evaluation of deep learning and scientific simulation applications. This AMD GPU is designed with the Vega 20 architecture and it offers 3.4 F64 peak TFLOPs and 16GB HBM2 memory with …
Our Experimental Computing Laboratory (https://excl.ornl.gov) is pleased to announce the availability of the Intel Stratix 10 FPGA for software research and development, benchmarking, and testing. You can learn more at If you are interested in having an account, please apply for an ExCL project/account at https://excl.ornl.gov/accessing-excl/. Please send your questions and comments to excl-help@ornl.gov.
ExCL recently acquired and installed a node of the Summit supercomputer; the system will be available for software development and benchmarking. The system (named Leconte) has two POWER9 CPUs and six NVIDIA Volta GPUs, 512 GB of main memory, NVMe, and an Infiniband network. See https://excl.ornl.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/2019-03-26_ibm-summit-node.pdf Learn more at https://excl.ornl.gov/excl-systems/.
ExCL will be accepting new proposals for second quarter of 2019. The deadline is May 1st, 2019. You can find the details here: