Systems from Leading Providers Now Available,
Including a Turnkey Path to PetaFLOPS Performance for AI and Deep
Learning Applications
At SC17, AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) and its ecosystem partners announce
immediate availability of a suite of new, high performance systems
powered by AMD EPYC™ CPUs and AMD Radeon Instinct™ GPUs to
accelerate innovation in supercomputing. AMD combines this broad
portfolio with software, featuring the new ROCm 1.7 open platform
with updated development tools and libraries, enabling complete AMD
EPYC-based PetaFLOPS systems.
By comprehensively supporting both heterogeneous supercomputing
systems and memory-bound, CPU driven, high performance platforms
with EPYC, AMD uniquely addresses the needs of multiple workloads
with up to a 3X advantage in performance per dollar for the EPYC
7601 vs the Intel Xeon Platinum 8180M1. Target workloads for AMD
solutions include machine learning, weather modeling, computational
fluid dynamics, simulation and crash analysis in aviation and
automotive manufacturing, oil and gas exploration, and more.
“The industry’s leading system providers are here at SC17 with a
full breadth of AMD-based solutions that deliver outstanding
compute capability across HPC workloads,” said Forrest Norrod,
senior vice president and general manager of enterprise, embedded
and semicustom products, AMD. “The power of the AMD portfolio is
further underscored by investments we made in our open platform
approach. Only AMD offers high performance CPU and GPU products,
along with a completely open source software development
environment with ROCm.”
All AMD PetaFLOPS Supercomputing
PlatformA highlight for AMD at SC17 is the
Inventec P47 system that combines the performance of a single EPYC™
7000 series CPU with four Radeon Instinct MI25 GPUs, each
delivering up to 12.3 TFLOPS of single precision performance in a
highly scalable platform. For large to hyperscale deployments, AMAX
has developed the [SMART]Rack P47, an all-inclusive
high-performance rackscale appliance featuring 20x P47 platforms to
provide up to a PetaFLOPS of single precision compute performance
and more than 10 terabytes of DDR4 memory per rack. The [SMART]Rack
P47 also features HPC-optimized [SMART]DC DCiM software to remotely
monitor, manage and orchestrate GPU-based deployments where
real-time temperature, power and system health are particularly
crucial to help ensure uninterrupted operation, as well as AMD’s
ROCm software platform for the ultimate ease of implementation for
deep learning, inference and training workloads.
“As a high-performance technology provider enabling enterprises
to close the gap between scale up performance, compute density and
cost, AMAX sees the P47 as a game changer,” said Julia Shih, VP of
Business Development, AMAX. “Starting from a single P47 platform,
we can scale upwards to supercomputing-class performance by
leveraging AMD EPYC, AMD Radeon Instinct, and the ROCm software
platform to support Deep Learning, rendering, and a host of other
workloads. The [SMART]Rack P47 is the first turnkey
PetaFLOPS-in-a-Rack solution geared towards technical performance
and business acceleration, married with ease of use. We are excited
to announce that we are now taking pre-orders for both the P47
server and the fully-integrated [SMART]Rack P47, with delivery
estimated in Q1 of 2018.”
ROCm Open Software PlatformAMD EPYC and AMD
Radeon Instinct performance is fully supported by the new ROCm 1.7
release. Expanding on the most versatile open source software
platform for heterogeneous computing systems, ROCm 1.7 delivers
math libraries and software development support using modern
programming languages to unlock the power of GPU acceleration and
other accelerators like FPGAs. The ROCm 1.7 release includes
multi-GPU support for the latest Radeon™ GPU hardware, as well as
support for TensorFlow and Caffe in the MIOpen libraries.
The foundation for heterogeneous computing strategies is in
place through the new AMD technology solution set formed from EPYC,
Radeon Instinct, and ROCm 1.7. The availability of the P47 platform
and the release of ROCm 1.7 are milestones that demonstrate how
optimization and innovation are thriving at the hardware level.
Learn more about how AMD is building high-performance solutions for
open supercomputing applications at the SC17 show in Denver, Nov.
13 – 17. AMD will demonstrate applications and answer questions in
the AMD booth #825.
AMD Ecosystem Support @ SC17
ASUS“As one of the first companies to introduce
AMD EPYC-based servers, ASUS understands the need for platforms
that can scale to meet the performance and power requirements of
data-intensive HPC and virtualization applications,” said Robert
Chin, head of ASUS Server business unit. “Server performance and
efficiency is critical to any datacenter, however it is especially
important when managing the most demanding tasks inherent in deep
learning applications. Our EPYC-based ASUS RS720A-E9 and RS700A-E9
servers on the market today meet this challenge for a dramatically
improved experience.”
BOXX“For two decades, BOXX has developed
innovative workstations, rendering systems, and servers for
engineering, architecture, VFX, motion media, and other
industries,” said Shoaib Mohammad, BOXX Vice President of Marketing
and Business Development. “Now we’re applying that same expertise
to advanced, multi-GPU compute solutions for deep learning. With
AMD EPYC server processors, we can significantly boost performance,
power and memory to drive advancements in data mining, natural
language processing, image recognition, and security.”
EchoStreams“EchoStreams supports solution
providers and integrators of all sizes by delivering the latest
server and storage technologies via OEM/ODM platforms purposely
designed for different usage models in different markets that
require data-intensive management,” said Gene Lee, President,
EchoStreams. “With the addition of the high-performance EPYC
processors from AMD to our storage portfolio, today we can offer
customers an even more powerful solution capable of taking on the
complex challenges in the continuously evolving areas of artificial
intelligence and deep learning.”
GIGABYTE Technology“GIGABYTE Technology is a
key go-to-market partner for delivering EPYC processor-based server
platforms, offering customers a mature ecosystem,
industry-transforming hardware design and serious compute, memory,
I/O and power for complex HPC computations,” said Daniel Hou, vice
president, Research & Development, GIGABYTE Technology.
“Supercomputing requires significant compute density at the server
level to drive a diverse range of applications, and with our
R-series and G-series EPYC processor-based rackmount servers
available today, GIGABYTE is ready for the next frontier.”
HPE“HPE is a foundational partner to AMD on its
journey with EPYC,” said Justin Hotard, Vice President and General
Manager, Volume Global Business Unit, HPE. “As the world leader in
supercomputers and high performance computing, we are committed to
delivering solutions to customers with highly complicated
workloads, and AMD delivers the power, density and scalability to
help break barriers.”
Penguin Computing“Penguin Computing is a
longstanding leader in open, Linux-based HPC solutions, and we have
delivered hundreds of HPC clusters to customers in a variety of
vertical markets spanning life sciences, government, manufacturing,
financial services and more,” said Philip Pokorny, Chief Technology
Officer, Penguin Computing. “The high-performance EPYC processors
from AMD, powering our new Altus line of 1U and 2U server
platforms, provide the scalability, memory and high core count that
are key to driving advanced HPC and machine learning workloads, and
enable us to tackle new challenges in supercomputing.”
Supermicro“Our high-density compute solutions
optimized for the new EPYC processors offer more cores, more memory
channels, and more PCI-E expansion lanes than any previous AMD
platforms. These enhanced features enable maximum
performance-per-watt, scalability and reliability, all of which are
vital in solving today’s biggest challenges in science,
engineering, simulation, modeling and data analytics,” said Don
Clegg, VP of Marketing at Supermicro. “Supermicro’s broad portfolio
of EPYC-based A+ Servers, available today in 1U, 2U, 4U and tower
form factors, conquer these challenges, helping our enterprise
customers to stay ahead in the extremely competitive HPC market
while lowering overall TCO.”
TYAN“The AMD EPYC processor inside our TYAN
servers enables us to double down on performance, delivering the
power of a dual-socket platform in a single-socket form factor to
maximize value and support an array of high-performance
applications,” said Danny Hsu, Vice President of MiTAC Computing
Technology Corporation's TYAN Business Unit. “Designing products
that can handle complex and often difficult workloads in HPC
environments requires scalability, efficiency and an exceptionally
high-performance infrastructure, which are all qualities we see in
the EPYC portfolio, and why we are partnering with AMD to address
the major computing challenges of today and tomorrow.”
Availability
The following companies are now offering AMD EPYC products or
AMD EPYC-based systems:
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visualization technologies ― the building blocks for gaming,
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1 Based on SPECfp®_rate2006 scores published on
www.spec.org as of October 25, 2017. 2 x EPYC 7601 CPU
($4,200 per processor at AMD 1ku pricing) in Sugon A620-G30, Ubuntu
17.04, x86 Open64 v4.5.2.1 Compiler Suite, 512 GB PC4-2666V-R
memory running at 2400 1 x 1TB SATA 7200RPM has a peak score of
1850 (base score 1670); versus 2P Xeon Platinum 8180M ($13,011 per
processor per ark.intel.com)-based Cisco UCS C240 M5 system with
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2, ICC 17.0.3.191, 384GB
PC4-2666V-R memory, 1x240GB SATA SSD score of 1830 (base score
1800). SPEC and SPECfp are registered trademarks of the Standard
Performance Evaluation Corporation. See www.spec.org for more
information. NAP-49
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