AMD Expands High Performance Compute Fund to Aid Researchers Solving the World’s Toughest Challenges
June 01 2022 - 9:00AM
AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced the expansion of its High
Performance Compute (HPC) Fund with the addition of 7 petaflops of
computing power to assist global researchers working to solve the
most demanding challenges facing society today. AMD also announced
that the AMD HPC Fund will now integrate Xilinx Heterogeneous
Accelerated Compute Clusters (HACC) program, providing researchers
with access to AMD EPYC™ processors, AMD Instinct™ accelerators,
Xilinx Alveo™ accelerators and Xilinx Versal™ ACAPs to advance
research in areas including climate change, health care,
transportation, big data and more.
The new contribution brings the total amount of
computing capacity donated by AMD to over 20 petaflops with a
market value of more than $31 million, as of May 2022. The
additional computing resources will build on the AMD COVID-19 HPC
Fund that was established in 2020 to provide research institutions
with computing resources to accelerate medical research on COVID-19
and other diseases.
“We are witnessing a scientific computing
revolution where high-performance computing resources vastly reduce
the time to insights and discovery,” said Mark Papermaster,
executive vice president and chief technology officer, AMD. “By
broadening the AMD HPC Fund beyond COVID-19, we are putting
leading-edge compute power in the hands of those that need it most
- the researchers solving the world’s toughest problems.”
To date, AMD has donated computing systems or
cloud-based computing capacity to more than 28 institutions across
eight countries. Nearly 6,000 researchers have received access to
AMD technologies for their projects, resulting in 55 papers
published so far on key issues like disparities in COVID-19
vaccination rates by race and ethnicity and improvements in the
classification of breast cancer imagery through deep vision
techniques.
“As a leader in high-performance and adaptive
computing, AMD has the unique ability and opportunity to support
institutions that are conducting groundbreaking research for the
benefit of our communities and the planet,” said Susan Moore, AMD
corporate vice president of corporate responsibility and
international government affairs and AMD Foundation president. “The
AMD HPC Fund exemplifies our commitment to our digital impact goal
that 100 million people will benefit from AMD technology and
philanthropy initiatives for STEM education, scientific research
and the workforce of the future by 2025.”
AMD will grant cloud-based access to global
universities and research institutions with support from leading
system partners Supermicro and WEKA.io. Research institutions and
universities can apply for the new round of computing power grants
by submitting their application here.
Supporting Resources
- Learn more about the AMD HPC Fund here
- Watch the video about the AMD HPC Fund here
- Learn more about the Xilinx HACC program here
- Learn more about the AMD Digital Impact goal here
About AMD
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and cutting-edge scientific research institutions around the world
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