At this year’s International Supercomputing 2021 digital event, AMD
(NASDAQ: AMD) is showcasing momentum for its AMD EPYC™ processors
and AMD Instinct™ accelerators across the High Performance
Computing (HPC) industry. The company also outlined updates to the
ROCm™ open software platform and introduced the AMD Instinct™
Education and Research (AIER) initiative. The latest Top500 list
showcased the continued growth of AMD EPYC processors for HPC
systems. AMD EPYC processors power nearly 5x more systems compared
to the June 2020 list, and more than double the number of systems
compared to November 2020. As well, AMD EPYC processors power half
of the 58 new entries on the June 2021 list.
“High performance computing is critical to addressing the
world's biggest and most important challenges,” said Forrest
Norrod, senior vice president and general manager, data center and
embedded systems group, AMD. “With our AMD EPYC processor family
and Instinct accelerators, AMD continues to be the partner of
choice for HPC. We are committed to enabling the performance and
capabilities needed to advance scientific discoveries, break the
exascale barrier, and continue driving innovation.”
AMD HPC Momentum Continues With the recent
launch of the AMD EPYC 7003 Series processor, which provides
industry leading performance for HPC workloadsi, AMD is continuing
to enable its partners and customers to deploy all sizes of
clusters, across key research areas including manufacturing, life
sciences, financial services, climate research and more.
A 2020 Intersect360 perception study of HPC users’ impressions
of CPUs showed that AMD EPYC processors had a 78 percent favorable
impression amongst respondents, growing from 36 percent in 2016ii.
In a 2021 study from Intersect360 asking HPC institutions about AMD
EPYC penetration within their sites, 23 percent of respondents said
they have broad usage of AMD EPYC processors, and an additional 47
percent said they are testing or using AMD EPYC processors at some
leveliii.
Recent systems utilizing AMD HPC solutions include:
- Bulgaria’s EuroHPC Atos BullSequana XH2000 supercomputer,
powered by AMD EPYC processors for scientific development in
bioinformatics, pharmacy, artificial intelligence, meteorology and
more.
- The University of Cambridge’s Cambridge Service for Data Driven
Discovery (CSD3) system, with Dell EMC PowerEdge XE8545 servers
powered by 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors.
- Durham University’s COSMA8 supercomputer with Dell EMC
PowerEdge C6525 servers powered by 2nd and 3rd Gen AMD EPYC
processors.
- Microsoft Azure supercomputers for UK Met Office using 3rd Gen
AMD EPYC processors and next generation AMD EPYC processors in an
HPE Cray EX supercomputer, delivering an expected 60 petaflops of
advanced supercomputing capabilities for weather and climate
research.
- National Center for Atmospheric Research’s supercomputer,
powered by 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors and the HPE Cray EX
supercomputer, supporting the nation’s advanced research and
understanding of geosciences.
- The Perlmutter supercomputer from the National Energy Research
Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) and Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory features nodes that include 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors
in an HPE Cray EX supercomputer that provides four times the
computational power currently available at NERSC.
- The Singapore National Supercomputing Centre
supercomputer, built by HPE, powered by 3rd Gen
AMD EPYC processors and expected to have a peak theoretical
performance of 10 petaflops.
Updates to AMD ROCm™ Software Support AMD is
introducing its new AMD Instinct Education and Research (AIER)
initiative, designed to help scientists, researchers and academics
accelerate the performance of their code on AMD Instinct
Accelerators. The AIER initiative, based on member requirements,
offers remote access to AMD Instinct technologies, the AMD ROCm
Learning Center, and ROCm software and support as well as access to
technical guidance on AMD software and hardware solutions. In
addition to regional Solution Partners, AIER Global Solution
Partners include Dell Technologies, Gigabyte, Hewlett Packard
Enterprise, and Supermicro.
The ROCm open software platform continues to gain industry
support and momentum with a growing list of applications,
third-party libraries, and frameworks supporting AMD accelerators.
The HPC community has embraced HIP as a heterogenous programming
model, that developers use to write or adapt their codes to for
acceleration on AMD’s GPUs including Gromacs, TensorFlow, and
GridTools.
Additionally, PyTorch for ROCm is now available as an
installable Python package and includes full capability for
mixed-precision and large-scale training using AMD’s MIOpen and
RCCL (communications) libraries. This innovation provides a new
option for data scientists, researchers, students, and others in
the community to get started with accelerated PyTorch using AMD
GPUs. Most recently, CuPy, an open-source array library with
Python, has expanded its traditional GPU support with the
introduction of version 9.0 that now offers support for the ROCm
stack for GPU-accelerated computing.
Commitment to Advancing Research Last year, AMD
announced its HPC Fund for COVID-19 research, which included a
donation of systems powered by AMD EPYC processors and AMD Instinct
accelerators to provide researchers with petaflop-scale compute
power to fight the pandemic. With over 12 petaflops of capacity
awarded to-date, AMD has since delivered HPC capabilities to 23
institutions across seven countries including Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT), New York University (NYU), Rice
University, University of Texas at Austin and University of
Toronto.
“From COVID-19 research to analyzing genome architectures, AMD
CPU and GPU processors help the Center for Theoretical Biological
Physics to run some codes from 1,000 to 10,000 times faster than
before,” said Peter Rossky, the Harry C and Olga K. Wiess Professor
of Natural Sciences. “The ability to run parallel simulations on
this game-changing equipment enables the full analysis of one
chromosome in as little as 20 minutes – research that used to take
up to a month to complete. These accomplishments come just months
after adding the high-performance computing capabilities from AMD,
and we expect adoption across our researcher community to grow
exponentially.”
Visit the AMD virtual booth at ISC 21 to learn more about AMD
solutions for HPC and talk with AMD experts.
Supporting Resources
- See demos, videos and more about the AMD EPYC 7003 series
processors
- Read more about AMD Exascale Computing Technologies and AMD HPC
Solutions
- Find out more about the AIER initiative in the brochure
- Discover more on the AMD ROCm open software platform
- Follow AMD and AMD Server on Twitter
About AMDFor more than 50 years AMD has driven
innovation in high-performance computing, graphics and
visualization technologies ― the building blocks for gaming,
immersive platforms and the datacenter. Hundreds of millions of
consumers, leading Fortune 500 businesses and cutting-edge
scientific research facilities around the world rely on AMD
technology daily to improve how they live, work and play. AMD
employees around the world are focused on building great products
that push the boundaries of what is possible. For more information
about how AMD is enabling today and inspiring tomorrow, visit the
AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) website, blog, Facebook and Twitter pages.
AMD, the AMD Arrow logo EPYC, AMD Instinct and ROCm are
trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Other names are for
informational purposes only and may be trademarks of their
respective owners.
i MLN-086A: SPECrate®2017_fp_base comparison based on best
performing systems published at www.spec.org as of 04/28/2021.
Configurations: 2x AMD EPYC 7763 (651 SPECrate®2017_fp_base,
http://spec.org/cpu2017/results/res2021q1/cpu2017-20210219-24944.html)
versus 2x Intel Xeon Platinum 8368Q (477 SPECrate®2017_fp_base,
http://spec.org/cpu2017/results/res2021q2/cpu2017-20210330-25511.html)
for ~36.5% more performance. SPEC®, SPEC CPU®, and SPECrate® are
registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation
Corporation. See www.spec.org for more information.ii Intersect360
Research data from multiple studies. 2016: Special study:
“Processing Elements for HPC”; question, “Overall, how favorable is
your forward-looking impression of each of the following, with
respect to your HPC workloads? (1 = Completely unfavorable; 5 =
completely favorable)”; scores are combined percentage 4 and 5 for
AMD Opteron versus Intel Xeon. 2020: “Vendor Satisfaction and
Loyalty in HPC”; question, “What is your impression of each of the
following vendors' future prospects for HPC?” (five-point scale);
scores are combined top-two responses (Very Impressed; Impressed)
for AMD EPYC CPUs versus Intel Xeon CPUs.iii Intersect360 Research
HPC Technology Survey, 2021.
Contact:
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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