AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced multiple new high-performance
computing wins for AMD EPYC processors, including that the seventh
fastest supercomputer in the world and four of the 50
highest-performance systems on the bi-annual TOP500 list are now
powered by AMD. Momentum for AMD EPYC™ processors in advanced
science and health research continues to grow with new
installations at Indiana University, Purdue University and CERN as
well as high-performance computing (HPC) cloud instances from
Amazon Web Services, Google, and Oracle Cloud.
“The leading HPC institutions are increasingly leveraging the
power of 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors to enable cutting-edge
research that addresses the world’s greatest challenges,” said
Forrest Norrod, senior vice president and general manager, data
center and embedded systems group, AMD. “Our AMD EPYC CPUs, Radeon
Instinct accelerators and open software programming environment are
helping to advance the industry towards exascale-class computing,
and we are proud to strengthen the global HPC ecosystem through our
support of the top supercomputing clusters and cloud computing
environments.”
From powering the upcoming world’s fastest exascale
supercomputers, Frontier and El Capitan, to supporting workloads in
the cloud, and driving new advancements in health research, the
high core count and extensive memory bandwidth of AMD EPYC
processors are helping meet the growing demand from HPC providers
for improved performance, scalability, efficiency, and total cost
of ownership.
AMD Continues Expanding Share of TOP500
Supercomputers
Four AMD EPYC powered supercomputers are now among the 50
highest-performance systems in the world and there are now ten AMD
EPYC-powered supercomputers on the TOP500:
- Selene (No.7) an AMD EPYC 7742-based system in a DGX A100
SuperPOD platform from Nvidia,
- Belenos (No.30), one of the two BullSequana XH2000
supercomputers at Météo-France, the French national meteorological
service powered by 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors,
- Joliot-Curie (No.34), moved up the list based on a new
submission for the BullSequana XH2000 system using 2nd Gen AMD
EPYC™ processors at GENCI, the French national high-performance
computing organization,
- Mahti (No. 48), a 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processor powered
BullSequana XH2000 supercomputer at Finland’s Center for Science
Information Technology,
“Atos is proud to provide to its customers with cutting edge
technology, integrating 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors as soon as
released, and demonstrating increased performance on HPC
applications in production environments,” said Agnès Boudot, group
senior vice president, Head of HPC and Quantum at Atos.
AMD Powered Supercomputing Systems Drive Research of the
FutureTwo universities announced new research
supercomputing systems powered by AMD EPYC processors in Dell EMC
PowerEdge servers.
Indiana University will deploy Jetstream 2, an eight-petaflop
distributed cloud computing system powered by upcoming 3rd Gen AMD
EPYC processors. This system will be used by researchers in a
variety of fields such as AI, social sciences, and COVID-19
research. AMD EPYC processors already power Big Red 200 at the
Indiana University
campus. “Jetstream
2 bundles computation, software and access to storage for
individuals and teams of researchers across an array of areas of
research,” said David Hancock, Director in Research Technologies,
affiliated with the Pervasive Technology Institute at Indiana
University. “With the next generation AMD EPYC processor, Jetstream
2 will provide 8 petaflops of cloud computing power, giving more
access to high-end technologies to enable deep learning and
artificial intelligence techniques.”
Purdue University will deploy Anvil, a supercomputer powered by
next generation AMD EPYC processors, which will provide advanced
computing capabilities to support a wide range of computational and
data-intensive research. AMD EPYC will also power Purdue’s latest
community cluster “Bell”, scheduled for deployment early this
fall.
In addition, CERN, the largest particle physics laboratory in
the world, recently selected 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors in
Gigabyte servers to harness the massive amounts of data from their
latest Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment to rapidly detect
subatomic particles known as beauty quarks. A new case study
details how combining the increased bandwidth of PCIe® 4.0, DDR4
memory speed, and the 64 core AMD EPYC™ 7742 processor allows
researchers to collect the raw data streams generated by 40
terabytes of collision data occurring every second in the LHC.
High Performance Computing in the Cloud with AMD
EPYCAs the HPC industry evolves to support new workload
demands, cloud providers continue to adopt 2nd Gen AMD EPYC
processors to provide leadership performance and flexible
solutions. With recent cloud wins among technology partners like
Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud, AMD is helping
industry leaders push the boundaries in the new era of HPC and
cloud computing.
AMD and Microsoft Azure have continued to build upon their cloud
partnership with the recently announced HBv2-Series VMs for
high-performance computing workloads. The 2nd Gen AMD EPYC
processors provide Microsoft Azure customers with impressive core
scaling, access to massive memory bandwidth and are the first x86
server processors that support PCIe® 4.0, enabling some of the best
high-performance computing experiences in the industry. Together,
AMD and Microsoft Azure will support real-world HPC workloads, such
as CFD, explicit finite element analysis, seismic processing,
reservoir modeling, rendering, and weather simulation.
AMD Updates ROCm™ For Heterogenous Software
SupportCommunity support continues to grow for AMD Radeon
Open eCosystem (ROCm™), AMD’s open source foundation for
heterogenous compute. Major development milestones in the latest
update include:
- The HIP-Clang compiler is now up-streamed and reviewed by the
LLVM™ community, providing a better open source experience for the
developer,
- A new rocprofiler start/stop API to enable/disable GPU kernel
HSA dispatch callbacks, increasing developer productivity and
shortening the profiling run times,
- AMD RCCL compatibility with NVIDIA Communications Collective
Library (NCCL) v2.6.4m,
- MIOpen provides an optional pre-compiled kernel package to
reduce startup latency,
- A new CPU Affinity API is introduced for aiding applications to
select the appropriate memory node for a given accelerator (GPU)
and a given CPU,
- The new Radeon Performance Primitives library is a
comprehensive high-performance computer vision library for AMD (CPU
and GPU) with the HIP and OpenCL backend.
Join AMD CTO and executive vice president, Mark Papermaster, for
a webinar on July 15th to discuss the full range of AMD solutions
and upcoming innovations in HPC. Click the link for the time most
convenient for you to register: 9 AM EDT, 12 PM EDT or 9 PM
EDT.
Supporting Resources
- Tour the HLRS “Hawk” supercomputing system
- Learn more about the AMD 2nd Gen EPYCTM Processor
- Learn more about AMD Radeon Instinct™ Accelerators
- Become a fan of AMD on Facebook
- Follow AMD on Twitter
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2020.
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