Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University Deploys AMD EPYC™ Processors with Over 2 Petaflops of Comp...
October 01 2020 - 9:00AM
Today, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) and Okinawa Institute of Science and
Technology Graduate University (OIST) , announced the deployment of
AMD EPYC™ 7702 processors for use in a new, high performance
computing system. The EPYC processor-based supercomputer will
deliver the 2.36 petaflops of computing power OIST plans to use for
scientific research at the University.
The Scientific Computing & Data Analysis Section (SCDA) of
OIST plans to implement the new supercomputer for supporting OIST
computationally intensive research ranging from bioinformatics,
computational neuroscience, and physics. SCDA adopted AMD EPYC
after significant growth, including a 2X increase in users.
“2020 is a milestone year for OIST with new research units
expanding the number of research areas. This growth is driving a
significant increase in our computational needs,” said Eddy
Taillefer, Ph.D., Section Leader, Scientific Computing & Data
Analysis Section. “Under the common resource model for which the
computing system is shared by all OIST users we needed a
significant increase in core-count capacity to both absorb these
demands and cope with the significant growth of OIST. The latest
AMD EPYC processor was the only technology that could match this
core-count need in a cost-performance effective way.”
Key factors of OIST’s selection of the AMD EPYC processors
included superior cost-performance, memory/PCIe® bandwidth, and
high core counts per server. OIST plans to also consider EPYC
processors for other growing computational needs for University
researchers in the future.
“AMD is proud to be working with leading global institutions to
bring scientific research to the forefront through the power of
high performance computing technology,” said Ram Peddibhotla,
corporate vice president, EPYC product management, AMD. “With high
performance capabilities, ease of management and scalability, 2nd
Gen AMD EPYC processors can assist OIST researchers with advancing
technological innovations and supporting their research goals in
bioinformatics, computational neuroscience, and physics.”
AMD EPYC™ 7702
Processor Specifications
MODEL |
CPU CORES |
THREADS |
MAX Boost Freq.
(GHz)1 |
TDP
(W) |
MAX DDR Freq. (1DPC) |
L3 CACHE (MB) |
PCIeGen
4Lanes |
AMD EPYC™ 7702 |
64 |
128 |
Up to 3.35 |
200 |
3200 |
256 |
128 |
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1 Max boost for AMD EPYC processors is the maximum frequency
achievable by any single core on the processor under normal
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