During this year’s Supercomputing Conference 2021 (SC21), AMD
(NASDAQ: AMD) is showcasing its expanded presence and growing
preference in the high performance computing (HPC) industry with
the exceptional innovation and adoption of AMD data center
processors and accelerators. Customers across the industry continue
to expand their use of AMD EPYC™ processors and AMD Instinct™
accelerators to power cutting-edge research needed to address some
of the world’s biggest challenges in climate, life sciences,
medicine, and more.
Growing preference for AMD is showcased in the latest Top500
list. AMD now powers 73 supercomputers, compared to 21 in the
November 2020 list, a more than 3x year-over-year increase.
Additionally, AMD powers four out of the top ten most powerful
supercomputers in the world, as well as the most powerful
supercomputer in EMEA. Finally, AMD EPYC 7003 series processors,
which launched eight months ago, are utilized by 17 of the 75 AMD
powered supercomputers in the list, demonstrating the rapid
adoption of the latest generation of EPYC processors.
“The demands of supercomputing users have increased
exponentially as the world seeks to accelerate research, reducing
the time to discovery of valuable information,” said Forrest
Norrod, senior vice president and general manager, Data Center and
Embedded Solutions Business Group, AMD. “With AMD EPYC CPUs and
Instinct accelerators, we continue to evolve our product offering
to push the boundaries of data center technologies enabling faster
research, better outcomes and more impact on the world.”
AMD has also been recognized in the annual HPCwire Readers’ and
Editors’ Choice Awards at SC21. The company won ten awards
including Best Sustainability Innovation in HPC, Best HPC Server
Product and the Outstanding Leadership in HPC award presented to
President and CEO Dr. Lisa Su.
Expanding Customer BaseAMD is engaged broadly
across the HPC industry to deliver the performance and efficiency
of AMD EPYC and AMD Instinct products, along with the ROCm™ open
ecosystem, to speed research. Through high-profile installations
like the ongoing deployment of Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s
“Frontier” supercomputer, AMD is bringing the compute technologies
and performance needed to support developments in current and
future research across the world. Highlights of “Frontier” and
other new HPC systems in the industry include:
- “Adastra,” an HPE supercomputer that
will have two partitions powered by AMD CPUs and accelerators, was
recently announced by GENCI, the French national agency for HPC,
and CINES, the National Computing Center for Higher Education. The
first partition is based on next-generation AMD EPYC processors
code named “Genoa” and the second partition is based on 3rd Gen AMD
EPYC processors and AMD Instinct MI250x accelerators.
- Argonne National Laboratory’s “Polaris” testbed supercomputer,
powered by AMD EPYC 7003 series processors, enabling scientists and
developers to tackle a range of artificial intelligence (AI),
engineering and scientific projects.
- A new supercomputer built by HPE
using AMD EPYC CPUs to advance weather forecasting and climate
research for the National Center of Meteorology in the United Arab
Emirates. HPE also updated Eni’s supercomputer to accelerate the
discovery of energy sources using AMD EPYC processors.
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s
“Frontier” exascale computer – which is powered by optimized 3rd
Gen AMD EPYC processors and AMD Instinct MI250x accelerators.
- The Texas Advanced Computing Center
at The University of Texas at Austin launched Lonestar6, a Dell
Technologies supercomputer powered by AMD EPYC 7003 series
processors.
- University of Vermont’s Advanced
Computing Core, powered by AMD EPYC processors and AMD Instinct
accelerators, driving research into COVID-19 and solutions to
future potential threats to global health.
- Washington University’s advanced
clustering technologies, powered by AMD EPYC processors, studying
COVID-19 and home to the Folding@home project.
A Year of Breakthrough Products and Research
This year AMD launched its AMD EPYC 7003 series processor, the
world’s highest-performing server processor.1 Since then, there has
been overwhelming adoption from partners across the industry who
are driving discoveries in biomedicine, predicting natural
disasters, clean energy, semiconductors, microelectronics and
more.
Expanding on the features of the EPYC 7003 series processor, AMD
recently previewed the 3rd Gen EPYC processor with AMD 3D V-cache.
By utilizing innovative packaging technology, which layers the L3
cache in EPYC 7003 series processors, AMD 3D V-Cache technology
offers enhanced performance for the technical computing workloads
prevalent in HPC. Microsoft Azure HPC virtual machines featuring
3rd Gen EPYC with AMD 3D V-Cache are currently available in Private
Preview and will be available globally soon.
AMD also unveiled the world’s fastest HPC and AI accelerator2,
AMD Instinct MI250X. Designed with the AMD CDNA™ 2 architecture,
the AMD Instinct MI200 series accelerators deliver up to 4.9x the
peak FP64 performance versus competitive data center accelerators,
which is critical for HPC applications like weather modeling2. The
AMD Instinct MI200 series accelerators are also the first to have
over 100GB high-bandwidth memory capacity, delivering up to 3.2
terabytes per second, the industry’s best aggregate bandwidth3.
Supporting Resources
- Find more AMD HPC & AI information and customer
testimonials on the AMD HPC and AI Solutions Hub.
- Learn more about AMD EPYC Processors and AMD Instinct
Accelerators
- Read more about AMD Exascale Computing Technologies and AMD HPC
Solutions
- Follow AMD on Twitter
- Connect with AMD on LinkedIn
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, AMD CDNA, EPYC, AMD Instinct
and combinations thereof are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices,
Inc. Other names are for informational purposes only and may be
trademarks of their respective owners.
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1 MLN-016: Results as of 01/28/2021 using
SPECrate®2017_int_base. The AMD EPYC 7763 a measured estimated
score of 798 is higher than the current highest 2P server with an
AMD EPYC 7H12 and a score of 717,
https://spec.org/cpu2017/results/res2020q2/cpu2017-20200525-22554.pdf.
OEM published score(s) for 3rd Gen EPYC may vary. SPEC®, SPECrate®
and SPEC CPU® are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance
Evaluation Corporation. See www.spec.org for more
information.2 MI200-01: World’s fastest data center GPU is the AMD
Instinct™ MI250X. Calculations conducted by AMD Performance Labs as
of Sep 15, 2021, for the AMD Instinct™ MI250X (128GB HBM2e OAM
module) accelerator at 1,700 MHz peak boost engine clock resulted
in 95.7 TFLOPS peak theoretical double precision (FP64 Matrix),
47.9 TFLOPS peak theoretical double precision (FP64), 95.7 TFLOPS
peak theoretical single precision matrix (FP32 Matrix), 47.9 TFLOPS
peak theoretical single precision (FP32), 383.0 TFLOPS peak
theoretical half precision (FP16), and 383.0 TFLOPS peak
theoretical Bfloat16 format precision (BF16) floating-point
performance. Calculations conducted by AMD Performance Labs as of
Sep 18, 2020 for the AMD Instinct™ MI100 (32GB HBM2 PCIe® card)
accelerator at 1,502 MHz peak boost engine clock resulted in 11.54
TFLOPS peak theoretical double precision (FP64), 46.1 TFLOPS peak
theoretical single precision matrix (FP32), 23.1 TFLOPS peak
theoretical single precision (FP32), 184.6 TFLOPS peak theoretical
half precision (FP16) floating-point performance. Published results
on the NVidia Ampere A100 (80GB) GPU accelerator, boost engine
clock of 1410 MHz, resulted in 19.5 TFLOPS peak double precision
tensor cores (FP64 Tensor Core), 9.7 TFLOPS peak double precision
(FP64). 19.5 TFLOPS peak single precision (FP32), 78 TFLOPS peak
half precision (FP16), 312 TFLOPS peak half precision (FP16 Tensor
Flow), 39 TFLOPS peak Bfloat 16 (BF16), 312 TFLOPS peak Bfloat16
format precision (BF16 Tensor Flow), theoretical floating-point
performance. The TF32 data format is not IEEE compliant and not
included in this comparison.
https://www.nvidia.com/content/dam/en-zz/Solutions/Data-Center/nvidia-ampere-architecture-whitepaper.pdf,
page 15, Table 1. 3 MI200-07: Calculations conducted by AMD
Performance Labs as of Sep 21, 2021, for the AMD Instinct™ MI250X
and MI250 (128GB HBM2e) OAM accelerators designed with AMD CDNA™ 2
6nm FinFet process technology at 1,600 MHz peak memory clock
resulted in 128GB HBM2e memory capacity and 3.2768 TFLOPS peak
theoretical memory bandwidth performance. MI250/MI250X memory bus
interface is 4,096 bits times 2 die and memory data rate is 3.20
Gbps for total memory bandwidth of 3.2768 TB/s ((3.20 Gbps*(4,096
bits*2))/8).The highest published results on the NVidia Ampere A100
(80GB) SXM GPU accelerator resulted in 80GB HBM2e memory capacity
and 2.039 TB/s GPU memory bandwidth performance.
https://www.nvidia.com/content/dam/en-zz/Solutions/Data-Center/a100/pdf/nvidia-a100-datasheet-us-nvidia-1758950-r4-web.pdf
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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