NVIDIA and partners have been working hard to get the NVIDIA Arm HPC Developer Kit units into the hands of developers and enhance the software stack.
In July of 2021, NVIDIA announced the availability of the NVIDIA Arm HPC Developer Kit for preordering, along with the NVIDIA HPC SDK. Since then NVIDIA and its partners have been working hard to get units into the hands of developers, to increase global availability, and enhance the software stack.
Global Availability
The NVIDIA Arm HPC Developer Kit is based on the GIGABYTE G242-P32 2U server. It includes an Arm CPU, two A100 GPUs, two NVIDIA BlueField-2 data processing units (DPUs), and the NVIDIA HPC SDK suite of tools.
This delivers support for both single and multinode configurations. Units are available to order for global delivery through GIGABYTE.
Users Already Running HPC codes
The first units are already being used at sites, including Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), the University of Leicester, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), and the National Center for High-performance Computing (NCHC) in Taiwan. They have successfully deployed multinode configurations and opened the systems to users to run HPC codes.
Los Alamos National Laboratory
“Los Alamos National Laboratory has a broad set of requirements related to our national security mission spaces. With this as a backdrop, we evaluate, deploy, and integrate many advanced technologies into our ecosystem. The consistent goal of these technologies is to improve our responses to mission requirements.
“As part of our 2023 HPE/NVIDIA system, which will utilize NVIDIA’s Grace Arm-based CPU, Los Alamos has been working with the Arm ecosystem software and hardware. With that in mind, we have already deployed early development test systems where we see good success migrating and developing new codes. One such code, which we are actively codesigning both HW and SW, is an astrophysics code-named Phoebus.” – Steve Poole, Chief Architect at LANL.
University of Leicester
“The University of Leicester, thanks to the contribution of the ExCALIBUR Hardware and Enabling Software Programme and STFC DiRAC HPC facility, has recently completed the deployment of 4x NVIDIA Arm HPC Developer Kit accessible by all UK developers interested in testing, porting, and optimizing strategic UK applications on NVIDIA Ampere Architecture Computing Altra CPU and NVIDIA A100 GPU.
“The UK remains at the forefront of computing thanks to initiatives like ExCALIBUR. The addition of this accelerated Arm-based system opens new opportunities to evaluate the role of accelerators in a fast-growing and diversified Arm HPC ecosystem. We welcome the close partnership of NVIDIA in pushing the ecosystem forward into the next era of accelerated computing.” – Mark Wilkinson, Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics and Director at DiRAC HPC Facility.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
“Here at ORNL, we are looking forward to working with NVIDIA to explore the deployment of a wide array of applications on the NVIDIA Arm HPC developer kit as performance portability continues to gain prominence in HPC.” – Ross Miller, Systems Integration Programmer in the National Center for Computational Sciences at ORNL.
Software Stack Enhancements
NVIDIA continues to make rapid progress on enhancing the HPC SDK and supporting its full stack of ML tools on Arm. Separate from the HPC SDK, NVIDIA is announcing support for two of the most popular deep learning frameworks: PyTorch and TensorFlow.
In addition, the RAPIDS suite of software libraries and the NVIDIA Triton Inference Server will be available on Arm by the end of year.
The NVIDIA Arm HPC Developer Kit is the first step in enabling an Arm HPC ecosystem with GPU acceleration. NVIDIA is committed to full support for Arm for HPC and AI applications.
Learn more
- NVIDIA Arm Resources >>
- ISC Session, A Deep Dive into the Latest HPC Software >>
- GTC On-demand session, Inside the NVIDIA HPC SDK >>