Cray Advanced Supercomputer to Assist Samsung’s Research on Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning
November 14 2017 - 3:01AM
Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (Nasdaq:CRAY) today announced
that Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has purchased a Cray® CS-Storm™
accelerated cluster supercomputer. The Samsung Strategy &
Innovation Center (SSIC) procured the system for use in its
research into Artificial Intelligence (AI) and deep learning
workloads, including systems for connected cars and autonomous
technologies.
SSIC, which innovates within multiple technology categories
including digital health, IoT, data infrastructure and smart
machines, purchased and completed the installation of the
three-cabinet Cray CS-Storm 500NX system with NVIDIA® Tesla® Pascal
P100 SXM2 GPU accelerators. The system will facilitate SSIC’s
research with powerful, accelerator-optimized solutions for running
artificial intelligence and deep learning applications at scale
with very large, complex datasets.
“At Samsung, we believe the rapid growth of data has untold
potential to improve the way we live,” said John Absmeier, vice
president of Smart Machines, Samsung Strategy & Innovation
Center and senior vice president, Autonomous/ADAS Strategic
Business Unit, HARMAN. “But first, we need to understand the
technology – leveraging artificial intelligence and deep learning –
that provides insights into all that data. Cray’s system helps
Samsung do that development, and they even use Samsung’s own solid
state drives in their system, providing fast and secure memory
access. With Cray’s technology, we look forward to the progress and
products our work will unlock.”
“At Cray, we design our supercomputing systems for companies
like Samsung that continually push the boundaries of research,
design, and engineering to develop new products that improve
people’s lives,” said Fred Kohout, Cray’s senior vice president of
products and chief marketing officer. “We are honored that Samsung
has turned to Cray to provide the supercomputing resources it needs
to bring new innovations to market.”
The Cray CS-Storm systems provide customers with powerful,
accelerator-optimized solutions for running machine learning and
deep learning applications at scale. The Cray CS-Storm 500NX system
was delivered to Samsung as a fully integrated cluster
supercomputer, with Samsung leading-edge memory technologies
including NVMe SSDs and 2666Mhz DDR4 RDIMMs, along with the Cray
Programming Environment, and full cluster systems management. The
Cray CS-Storm 500NX configuration scales up to eight NVIDIA Tesla
Pascal P100 SXM2 GPUs using the NVIDIA NVLink™ to reduce latency
and increase bandwidth between GPU-to-GPU communications, enabling
larger models and faster results for AI and deep learning neural
network training.
For more information on the Cray CS-Storm series of
supercomputers please visit the Cray website at www.cray.com.
About Cray Inc.Global supercomputing leader
Cray Inc. (Nasdaq:CRAY) provides innovative systems and solutions
enabling scientists and engineers in industry, academia and
government to meet existing and future simulation and analytics
challenges. Leveraging more than 40 years of experience in
developing and servicing the world’s most advanced supercomputers,
Cray offers a comprehensive portfolio of supercomputers and big
data storage and analytics solutions delivering unrivaled
performance, efficiency and scalability. Cray’s Adaptive
Supercomputing vision is focused on delivering innovative
next-generation products that integrate diverse processing
technologies into a unified architecture, allowing customers to
meet the market’s continued demand for realized performance. Go to
www.cray.com for more information.
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