AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced a second round of
high-performance technology contributions to assist in the global
fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. AMD is now contributing
high-end computing systems or access to Penguin-On-Demand (POD)
cloud-based clusters powered by 2nd Gen AMD EPYC™ and AMD
Radeon Instinct™ processors to 21 institutions and research
facilities conducting COVID-19 research. With 12 petaflops of total
supercomputing capacity now awarded, the combined compute capacity
donated through the AMD COVID-19 HPC Fund would rank among the
fastest supercomputers in the world according to the most recent
Top500 list.
“AMD is proud to be working with leading global research
institutions to bring the power of high performance computing
technology to the fight against the coronavirus pandemic,” said
Mark Papermaster, executive vice president and chief technology
officer, AMD. “These donations of AMD EPYC and Radeon Instinct
processors will help researchers not only deepen their
understanding of COVID-19, but also help improve our ability to
respond to future potential threats to global health.”
The AMD COVID-19 HPC fund was established to provide
research institutions with computing resources to accelerate
medical research on COVID-19 and other diseases. In addition to the
donations of $15 million of high-performance computing systems, AMD
has contributed technology and technical resources to nearly double
the peak system of the “Corona” system at Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory which is being used to provide additional
computing power for molecular modeling in support of COVID-19
research.The second round of AMD-donated compute capacity is
expected to be operational starting in Q4 of this year and will be
used for a number of pandemic-related workloads including genomics,
vaccine development, transmission science, and modeling. Research
projects range from evolutionary modeling of the virus, to
understanding the virus spike protein activation that occurs prior
to first interaction between the coronavirus and human cell, and
large scale fluid dynamics simulations of COVID-19 droplets as they
travel through the air. To maximize the impact of the research, AMD
is also initiating a working group for COVID-19 HPC Fund recipients
and AMD engineers to jointly discuss research areas and findings as
well as hardware and software optimizations that can accelerate
their collective work.
To date, the AMD COVID-19 HPC fund has donated computing systems
or cloud-based computing capacity to: Cambridge University,
Carnegie Mellon, GENCI / French National High-Performance Computing
Agency, Harvard Children’s Hospital, High Performance Computing
Center (HLRS) / the University of Stuttgart, MIT, NYU, CSIR Fourth
Paradigm Institute in India, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ),
Rice, Stanford School of Medicine, Texas State University, The
University of British Columbia, The University of Texas at Austin,
UCLA, University of Arkansas, University of Toronto, University of
Trento, University of Vermont, Virginia Commonwealth University,
and Washington University.
AMD COVID-19 HPC Fund Recipient Support
Stanford School of Medicine
“We are very grateful to receive AMD’s donation of high
performance servers. The diverse evolution of COVID-19 epidemics in
various parts of the world raises numerous, time-critical,
location-specific, policy-relevant questions,” said Dr. Jeremy
Goldhaber-Fiebert, associate professor of Medicine and core faculty
member of Stanford Health Policy. “Computational power like that
provided by AMD allows our team to attempt to answer such question
more quickly, more deeply, and for more places.”
UCLA
"UCLA is grateful for the generous gift from AMD, which will
make an important impact on our research at UCLA,” said Todd
Yeates, professor of biochemistry and director of the UCLA-DOE
Institute for Genomics and Proteomics. “We have numerous research
groups working on diverse aspects of the COVID19 problem, from
epidemiology to molecular studies aimed at developing therapeutics
and vaccines. Many of those studies are limited by computing needs.
This new influx of power will be an opportunity for UCLA and AMD to
work together in exploiting their processor technologies in new
areas of computational research."
UT Austin
“AMD CPUs and GPUs will allow our researchers to expand the
scope of their COVID-19 work while also helping them accelerate
their timeliness significantly,” said UT’s Interim Vice President
for Research Alison R. Preston. “This includes everything from
identifying viral spike protein mutations that could help improve
vaccines to using machine learning technology to study COVID
disease severity in patients of all ages, from newborns to the
elderly.”
University of Toronto
"This new partnership is critical in helping the University of
Toronto accelerate research on COVID-19 and develop innovations
that will mitigate the impact of the pandemic on communities," said
Alex Mihailidis, associate vice-President of International
Partnerships. “The donation of cutting-edge computing resources
will allow the University of Toronto and our affiliated hospitals
expand our current infrastructure and launch SciNet4Health, a
platform that can securely process big data sets of private health
information to advance the discovery of therapies, vaccines and
disease mutations. This donation brings us one step closer to the
healthcare of the future.”
AMD Ecosystem Partners
AMD continues to work with well-known HPC and AI solutions firm
Penguin Computing®, a division of SMART Global Holdings, Inc.
(NASDAQ: SGH), to define, build, and deliver on-premises systems
and Penguin Computing’s POD clusters, powered by AMD. Penguin
Computing’s POD support is collocated in data center space donated
by DataBank. Contributions from Gigabyte™, Nvidia Networking, and
others are also supporting the AMD HPC Fund.
“Penguin Computing is proud to announce that the first petaflop
of compute capacity in our datacenter is now online and available
for researchers to begin advancing the science of pandemic research
to help find new ways to fight COVID-19. We look forward to
continuing to support AMD and the latest round of universities and
labs to participate in this global effort with Penguin Computing’s
applications and technology expertise,” said Sid Mair, President,
Penguin Computing Inc.
Gigabyte is supplying its G291-Z20 compute nodes for the Penguin
Computing clusters, built around a single, 48-core AMD EPYC 7642
processor paired with eight Radeon Instinct™ MI50 GPU accelerators.
The system R182-Z91 management nodes, also from Gigabyte, each
utilize two 16-core, AMD EPYC 7302 processors.
Supporting Resources
- Donation to MIT, NYU and Rice release
- Video from AMD President and CEO, Lisa Su
- AMD response to COVID-19
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