AMD Selected by the U.S. Department of Energy to Help Drive Next-Generation Supercomputing Hardware Architecture
June 15 2017 - 4:15PM
AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) today announced that it has been selected by the
Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) to
accelerate critical computing technology research for the
development of the nation’s first exascale supercomputers. The new
three-year PathForward program provides funding for research and
development to drive critical advances of next-generation
supercomputing hardware technologies.
PathForward differs from previous exascale research efforts in
that it puts even greater emphasis on co-design to foster
innovation, encouraging close collaboration between AMD and other
program participants. The PathForward program will address the four
key technical challenges of exascale computing: parallelism, memory
and storage, reliability, and energy consumption. AMD will work on
CPU and GPU microarchitecture, memory systems, component
integration, and high-speed interconnects. AMD’s work for
PathForward will emphasize an open, standards-based approach to
heterogeneous computing to improve the performance,
power-efficiency, and ease of use for exascale systems.
“We are honored to be among the select few companies chosen by
the U.S. Department of Energy to provide necessary research
supporting the development of the advance technologies required for
exascale supercomputers,” said Alan Lee, corporate vice president
for research and advanced development, AMD. “We have been working
on exascale research for five years now, and PathForward will take
our work to a new level, focusing on system-level technology
integration with partners. We are well prepared for this
initiative, as evidenced by our high-performance technologies
development along with long-standing participation in standards
bodies.”
The ECP seeks to address the nation’s most pressing scientific
challenges by advancing simulation-based scientific discoveries
made possible by the world’s highest performing exascale
supercomputers. The technologies developed as part of this
initiative could also positively impact low-power embedded,
cloud/datacenter, and high-performance computing applications for
diverse fields ranging from medical science to astrophysics and
climate modeling.
AMD is committed to innovation and supports the DOE’s goals for
capable exascale supercomputing systems. This new research and
development effort is aligned with the company’s ongoing focus on
high performance computing through x86 CPUs and graphics processors
for deep learning, data analytics, simulations, and other demanding
applications.
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