Even in the time of “card hungry home”, the European Union wants to buy… 20,000 GPUs to simulate the Earth

Although the market is seriously lacking in cards, the EU still wants to buy 20,000 GPUs to simulate the Earth.

Recently, the European Union said it intends to use up to 20,000 GPUs to simulate our entire Earth. And this super project will be called Destination Earth (details here), aka DestinE.

However, unfortunately this will not be a meticulously designed MMO game, but it is just a digital model of the Earth with high accuracy, in order to monitor and simulate the activities of nature and the environment. People.

The goal of this project is to combine multiple versions of Earth, where each model will simulate a different part of the planet. Specifically, the scientists have proposed applications such as weather forecasting and climate change, food and water, circulation and biochemical problems of the ocean. In addition, it also helps to speed up the process of protecting the environment and planning to respond to environmental disasters and disasters.

And for the most accurate simulation, the scientists estimate they need a system four times more powerful than the Cray Piz Daint supercomputer in Zurich. This is a machine equipped with more than 5000 NVIDIA Tesla P100 GPUs (Pascal architecture).

This means that scientists will need a system with about 20,000 graphics chips to be able to handle all the simulation tasks. And you can rest assured that it will be used for a specific purpose, but this is not the most powerful buffalo plowing on the planet.

Supercomputers have also been used to describe collisions in the universe

With such a terrible configuration, it is expected that the power consumption will be somewhere around 20 MW. Not to mention this system will emit a large amount of CO2 into the environment. But anyway, the EU can hardly gather 20,000 GPUs overnight. Well, we gamers can only wish the EU good luck and soon complete the set goals.

Source PC Gamer compiled Gearvn