Do supercomputers use GPUs?

Some do. Supercomputers that completely rely on regular CPUs are the easiest to use, since you have to code for only one processor type, and your network is symmetric. However, there are and have been many supercomputers with GPUs or other co-pro... read more

Some do. Supercomputers that completely rely on regular CPUs are the easiest to use, since you have to code for only one processor type, and your network is symmetric. However, there are and have been many supercomputers with GPUs or other co-processors. read more

Supercomputers normally make use of customized compute units (called blades) which usually house multiple nodes (CPUs, GPUs). In the case of the Cray XK6, the most powerful blade in the world, each blade contains four nodes, and each node houses a 16-core AMD Opteron CPU and Nvidia Tesla GPU, and 16 or 32GB of RAM. read more