Comments on: A Look at a 2023 Top500 Aurora Supercomputer Node with Intel Ponte Vecchio https://www.servethehome.com/2023-top500-aurora-supercomputer-intel-ponte-vecchio-sapphire-rapids-hpe/ Server and Workstation Reviews Fri, 03 Jun 2022 08:12:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.3 By: Ayes Rollings https://www.servethehome.com/2023-top500-aurora-supercomputer-intel-ponte-vecchio-sapphire-rapids-hpe/#comment-484761 Fri, 03 Jun 2022 08:12:12 +0000 https://www.servethehome.com/?p=61385#comment-484761 @jpecar – do not worry. If it springs a leak once a year in each rack, Intel will have a shiny marketing name for something to deal with that. The something will be stupidly pricy, consume twice to thrice as much power as reasonable and will be about five years late in delivery.

This is Aurora, after all, and the Pork Barrel would expect nothing less.

Aurora should have been given to AMD. That company at least can deliver the goods on time.

]]> By: jpecar https://www.servethehome.com/2023-top500-aurora-supercomputer-intel-ponte-vecchio-sapphire-rapids-hpe/#comment-484705 Thu, 02 Jun 2022 06:09:37 +0000 https://www.servethehome.com/?p=61385#comment-484705 Hi Patrick,

It was nice to finally meet you in person at ISC.

What is your opinion on all these liquid piping and all the joints within the nodes? Do you have any industry numbers on how reliable they are? Looking at the sheer number of them, it feels like there will be at least one leak per year per rack, even if they’re 99.999% reliable.
This industry badly needs someone like Sandy Munro (check his Munro Live yt) to get it in shape on engineering side of cooling things. DLC as is looks horrible. In fact there was only one example at the ISC exhibition floor that I considered well done, a sequana intel three-node tray with proper heat pipes, no hoses and no joints. That’s how things should be done.

Can you help push the industry a bit in this direction? Thanks.

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