AMD EPYC™ Processors Accelerate High Performance Computing Capability in Perlmutter Supercomputer
May 27 2021 - 1:30PM
AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today joined the National Energy Research
Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and others in unveiling the new
Perlmutter supercomputer powered by AMD EPYC™ 7003 Series
processors.
The new supercomputer at Berkeley Lab will provide four times
the computational power currently available at NERSC, making it
among the fastest supercomputers in the world for scientific
simulation, data analysis and artificial intelligence (AI). In
development since 2019, the new system takes advantage of the
industry-leading HPC workload performance1 offered by the new 3rd
Gen AMD EPYC processors to facilitate faster and advanced research
in climate, clean energy, semiconductors, microelectronics and
quantum information science.
“AMD is extremely proud to work with our strategic partners to
push the boundaries of HPC in areas including scientific and
environmental research, medical advancements and artificial
intelligence,” said Forrest Norrod, senior vice president and
general manager, Data Center and Embedded Solutions Business Group.
“The new Perlmutter supercomputer from NERSC, will drive the next
wave of critical discoveries that help to solve the world’s biggest
challenges.”
“Our work with key partners like AMD enables us to significantly
increase our computing power and broaden our spectrum of scientific
capabilities,” said NERSC Director Sudip Dosanjh. “Perlmutter will
enable a larger range of applications than previous NERSC systems
and is the first NERSC supercomputer designed from the start to
meet the needs of both simulation and data analysis."
Perlmutter, named in honor of Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist
Saul Perlmutter, is being delivered in two phases. Phase 1 is now
being deployed and features 1,536 nodes, each with one AMD EPYC
7763 processor and four NVIDIA NVlink-connected A100 Tensor Core
GPUs. Phase 1 also includes a 35 PB all-flash Lustre file system
that will provide very high-bandwidth storage. Expected later this
year, phase 2 will add another 3,072 CPU-only nodes, each with two
AMD EPYC 7763 processors and 512 GB of memory per node.
Supporting Resources
- Learn more about AMD EPYC Processors here
- See more about Perlmutter
- Read more about AMD Exascale Computing Technologies
- See demos, videos and more about the AMD EPYC 7003 series
processors
- Follow AMD on Twitter
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1 MLN-086: Based on SPECrate®_fp_base of 4/14/2021, 2x AMD EPYC™
7763 scored 651
http://spec.org/cpu2017/results/res2021q1/cpu2017-20210219-24944.html;
2x Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8380 scored 472
https://spec.org/cpu2017/results/res2021q2/cpu2017-20210330-25515.html.
SPEC®, SPECrate® and SPEC CPU® are registered trademarks of the
Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. See www.spec.org for
more information.
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Aaron Grabein
AMD Communications
(512) 602-8950
aaron.grabein@amd.com
Laura Graves
AMD Investor Relations
(408) 749-5467
laura.graves@amd.com
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