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They presented it this week at the prestigious International Computer Architecture Symposium (ISCA), held in Arizona, with the goal of creating the most powerful, fastest, most economical, and least power-consuming computers.
Today, the multi-GPU system - a supercomputer consisting of several processors (or CPUs) and graphics accelerators (or GPUs) - is the most advanced NVIDIA DGX-2, which costs $ 400,000, weighs 150Kg and is capable of processing 2,000 trillion operations per second, consuming up to 10 KVatios.
Hence the importance of this new tool, called MGPUSim, which is co-authored by the professor of the Degree in Computer Engineering of the UCAM, José Luis Abellán, and that any researcher can download free of charge (the simulator is open source under license MIT), install, use and even modify MGPUSim, to design and evaluate their new prototypes multi-GPU faster, cheaper and consume less energy.
"In this way, we will be able to meet more effectively the computational demands required by our current society, based on knowledge," says the researcher at the Catholic University of Murcia.
The goal is for them to be faster, cheaper and consume less energy.
Presented at the ISCA, one of the most important events in the world
The simulator was presented this week at the XLVI International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), which is being held in Arizona (USA), one of the most important appointments worldwide in the area of ​​computing computer architecture.
Such is its relevance, that the inauguration of the same is in charge of the winners with the Turing prize (the Nobel of Informatics), which expose the most remarkable researches, discoveries or contributions for which they have been rewarded worldwide in Sciences of the Computing.
Participants
The construction of a simulator of these characteristics implies hundreds of thousands of lines of code and can not be approached by a single person in a reasonable space of time, Abellán points out, and indicates that the collective effort of a group of researchers with high level of knowledge to be able to do it and the advice of a technological company (such as AMD).
"In particular, we have participated researchers from 4 university institutions (Northeastern University, Boston University, UCAM and KAIST (Advanced Institute of Science and Technology of Korea) and the company AMD.The researchers will receive the recognition of the European network of researchers HiPEAC.
Source: UCAM
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