AMD Unleashes World’s Most Powerful Server GPU for HPC

AMD Fire­Pro™ S9150 ser­ver card deli­vers up to 2.53 TFLOPS of peak dou­ble-pre­cis­i­on floa­ting point per­for­mance for inten­se com­pu­te workloads, and 10.8 GFLOPS dou­ble pre­cis­i­on-per-watt, up to 77% more performance/watt than the com­pe­ti­ti­on¹

SUNNYVALE, Calif. Aug. 6,  2014 – AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announ­ced the AMD Fire­Pro™ S9150 ser­ver card – the most powerful ser­ver Gra­phics Pro­ces­sing Unit (GPU) ever built for High Per­for­mance Com­pu­ting1. Based on the AMD Gra­phics Core Next (GCN) archi­tec­tu­re, the first AMD archi­tec­tu­re desi­gned spe­ci­fi­cal­ly with com­pu­te workloads in mind, the AMD Fire­Pro S9150 ser­ver card is the first ser­ver card to sup­port enhan­ced dou­ble pre­cis­i­on and break the 2.0 TFLOPS dou­ble pre­cis­i­on bar­ri­er1,2. With 16GB of GDDR5 memo­ry  – 33 per­cent more than the com­pe­ti­ti­on3 –  and maxi­mum power con­sump­ti­on of 235 watts, AMD Fire­Pro S9150 ser­ver GPUs pro­vi­de super­com­pu­ters with mas­si­ve com­pu­te per­for­mance while maxi­mi­zing available power budgets.

Today’s super­com­pu­ters fea­ture an incre­asing mix of GPUs, CPUs and co-pro­ces­sors to achie­ve gre­at per­for­mance, and many of them are being imple­men­ted in an envi­ron­men­tal­ly respon­si­ble man­ner to help redu­ce power and water con­sump­ti­on,” said David Cum­mings, seni­or direc­tor and gene­ral mana­ger, pro­fes­sio­nal gra­phics, AMD. “Desi­gned for lar­ge sca­le mul­ti-GPU sup­port and unmat­ched com­pu­te per­for­mance, AMD Fire­Pro S9150 ushers in a new era of super­com­pu­ting. Its memo­ry con­fi­gu­ra­ti­on, com­pu­te capa­bi­li­ties and per­for­mance per watt are unmat­ched in its class, and can help take super­com­pu­ters to the next level of per­for­mance and ener­gy efficiency.”

The AMD Fire­Pro S9150 ser­ver card is sup­port­ed by a powerful soft­ware eco­sys­tem, enab­ling deve­lo­pers to bet­ter harness its com­pu­te per­for­mance. In addi­ti­on to AMD sup­port for Open­CL™, inclu­ding sup­port for Open­CL™ 2.0 plan­ned later this year4, AMD today announ­ced a col­la­bo­ra­ti­on with Pathsca­le to sup­port OpenMP 4.0 for AMD Fire­Pro S9150 and sel­ec­ted other AMD Fire­Pro gra­phics cards.

Pathscale’s ENZO Com­pi­ler with OpenMP 4.0 and sup­port for C, C++, and For­tran is used by cus­to­mers in the Oil and Gas, Com­pu­ta­tio­nal Sci­ence, Com­pu­ter Aided Engi­nee­ring, and other HPC seg­ments,” said Chris­to­pher Berg­strom, CTO, Pathsca­le. “Our sup­port for the AMD Fire­Pro S9150 will enable the­se cus­to­mers to bene­fit from the tre­men­dous com­pu­te per­for­mance of AMD’s new ser­ver GPU while lever­aging their exis­ting invest­ment in OpenMP software.”

Having deve­lo­ped a super­com­pu­ter that ran­ked num­ber two on The Green500 list, it takes excep­tio­nal com­pu­te per­for­mance and effi­ci­en­cy to achie­ve that sta­tus — we couldn’t have done it wit­hout AMD Fire­Pro S‑Series ser­ver GPUs,” said Pro­fes­sor Dr. Vol­ker Lin­denstruth, Frank­furt Insti­tu­te for Advan­ced Stu­dies, Goe­the Uni­ver­si­ty, Frank­furt. “We’ve been put­ting the AMD Fire­Pro S9150 through its paces and we’re blown away by the per­for­mance-per-watt. Any super­com­pu­ter that lever­a­ges mas­si­ve com­pu­te power with the AMD Fire­Pro S9150 and makes a run for the top of the Green500 list stands a very good chan­ce of succeeding.”

We’re curr­ent­ly test­ing the AMD Fire­Pro™ S9150 ser­ver card and hands down it’s the fas­test HPC GPU acce­le­ra­tor we’ve ever tes­ted. We’re even more exci­ted by the pro­s­pects of com­bi­ning its raw com­pu­te per­for­mance with Open­CL 2.0 later this year,” said Simon McIn­tosh-Smith, head of the Microelec­tro­nics Rese­arch Group at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Bris­tol. “Our rese­arch bene­fits from an open and royal­ty-free API, and we’re com­mit­ted to Open­CL™ to acce­le­ra­te our com­pu­ta­ti­ons. We applaud AMD’s plan­ned sup­port for Open­CL 2.0. New fea­tures such as Shared Vir­tu­al Memo­ry and Nes­ted Par­al­le­lism will allow us to make even bet­ter use of GPUs to increase per­for­mance and efficiency.”

”Super­mi­cro offers the industry’s widest ran­ge of GPU ser­ver solu­ti­ons opti­mi­zed for HPC and super­com­pu­ting in 1U, 2U, 3U, 4U Super­Ser­ver and 7U Super­Bla­de plat­forms,” said Don Clegg, Vice Pre­si­dent of Mar­ke­ting and Busi­ness Deve­lo­p­ment at Super­mi­cro. “Super­mi­cro Green Com­pu­ting solu­ti­ons, fea­turing AMD’s latest AMD Fire­Pro S9150 and AMD Fire­Pro S9050, enable extre­me com­pu­te den­si­ty with sup­port for up to 6x GPUs per node in 4U dual node, dual pro­ces­sor con­fi­gu­ra­ti­ons, maxi­mi­zing per­for­mance per watt, per dol­lar, per squa­re foot.”

ASUS is plea­sed to fea­ture AMD Fire­Pro S9150 acce­le­ra­tors to enable ser­ver work­sta­tions with dedi­ca­ted and relia­ble func­tion­a­li­ty matched with dou­ble pre­cis­i­on floa­ting point per­for­mance,” said Tom Lin, gene­ral mana­ger, ASUS. “We’re dedi­ca­ted to offe­ring our cus­to­mers solu­ti­ons that deli­ver the most per­for­mance pos­si­ble, and the ener­gy effi­ci­en­cy and per­for­mance-per-watt of the AMD Fire­Pro S9150 are an added bonus our cus­to­mers will great­ly appreciate.”

AMD Fire­Pro S9150 deli­vers excep­tio­nal dou­ble- and sin­gle-pre­cis­i­on floa­ting point per­for­mance. Unli­ke other GPU acce­le­ra­tors, AMD Fire­Pro S9150 fea­tures enhan­ced dou­ble pre­cis­i­on, eli­mi­na­ting the need to buy a more expen­si­ve acce­le­ra­tor to get simi­lar per­for­mance,” said Etay Lee, gene­ral mana­ger at GIGABYTE’s Net­work & Com­mu­ni­ca­ti­ons Divi­si­on. “Tog­e­ther with AMD, our pro­duct deli­vers the right solu­ti­on for the mar­ket to enable power-effi­ci­ent per­for­mance for super­com­pu­ter-class results.”

AMD Fire­Pro S9150 GPU acce­le­ra­tors will be an out­stan­ding addi­ti­on to our pro­duct line, allo­wing us to offer our cus­to­mers solu­ti­ons that deli­ver maxi­mum per­for­mance,” said Albert Mu, vice pre­si­dent of MiT­AC Inter­na­tio­nal Corp.’s TYAN Busi­ness Unit. “During the test­ing and eva­lua­ti­on of the AMD Fire­Pro S9150 with TYAN ser­vers, our team was impres­sed with the sheer hor­se­power. It far excee­ded our expec­ta­ti­ons and our cus­to­mers will be anxious to take advan­ta­ge of that hor­se­power to acce­le­ra­te their com­pu­te-inten­si­ve workloads.”

The AMD Fire­Pro S9150 ser­ver GPU features:

  • 5.07 TFLOPS of peak sin­gle-pre­cis­i­on floa­ting point per­for­mance – up to 18 per­cent more than the competition¹
  • Maxi­mum dou­ble-pre­cis­i­on floa­ting point per­for­mance resul­ting in 2.53 TFLOPS peak dou­ble-pre­cis­i­on com­pu­te per­for­mance – half of its peak sin­gle pre­cis­i­on performance.
  • Indus­try lea­ding memo­ry con­fi­gu­ra­ti­on316GB GDDR5 memo­ry, 512-bit memo­ry inter­face and up to 320 GB/s memo­ry bandwidth
  • 2,816 stream pro­ces­sors (44 GCN com­pu­te units)
  • Error Cor­rec­ting Code Memo­ry sup­port (exter­nal)
  • Rea­dy to sup­port Open­CL™ 2.04
  • 235W maxi­mum power consumption
  • AMD STREAM tech­no­lo­gy5

Addi­tio­nal­ly, AMD intro­du­ced the new AMD Fire­Pro™ S9050 ser­ver GPU with 12GB of ultra-fast GDDR5 memo­ry, ECC Memo­ry sup­port, cut­ting-edge gra­phics and com­pu­te per­for­mance. The new ser­ver GPU deli­vers 3.23 TFLOPS of peak sin­gle pre­cis­i­on, plus 806 GFLOPS of dou­ble pre­cis­i­on floa­ting-point per­for­mance for effort­less pro­ces­sing of chal­len­ging com­pu­te workloads.

The AMD Fire­Pro S9050 ser­ver GPU features:

  • 12GB GDDR5 memo­ry, 384-bit memo­ry inter­face and up to 264 GB/s memo­ry bandwidth
  • 1,792 stream pro­ces­sors (28 GCN com­pu­te units)
  • Open­CL 1.2 support
  • Error Cor­rec­ting Code Memo­ry sup­port (inter­nal and external)
  • 225W maxi­mum power consumption

 

Both of the AMD Fire­Pro S9150 and S9050 ser­ver GPUs fea­ture PCIe? x16 dual slot form fac­tors and pas­si­ve ther­mal solu­ti­ons more com­pa­ti­ble with ser­ver envi­ron­ments. Addi­tio­nal­ly, both cards sup­port AMD STREAM tech­no­lo­gy5 which powers the eco­sys­tem that enables AMD Fire­Pro™ S‑Series ser­ver GPUs to be used for com­pu­te inten­si­ve work­flows lever­aging the mas­si­ve­ly par­al­lel pro­ces­sing power of AMD GPUs, and to acce­le­ra­te many appli­ca­ti­ons bey­ond just graphics.

AMD now offers indus­try lea­ding solu­ti­ons in pro­fes­sio­nal work­sta­tion and ser­ver gra­phics,” added Adri­an Thomp­son, VP of Mar­ke­ting for SAPPHIRE Tech­no­lo­gy, AMD’s Exclu­si­ve Glo­bal Dis­tri­bu­ti­on Part­ner for AMD Fire­Pro pro­fes­sio­nal gra­phics. “With the­se new fami­lies of pro­ducts, SAPPHIRE is ste­adi­ly expan­ding its reach into new mar­kets and appli­ca­ti­ons areas.”

AMD Fire­Pro S9150 and S9050 are expec­ted to be available for purcha­se in Q3 from AMD glo­bal dis­tri­bu­ti­on part­ner SAPPHIRE Tech­no­lo­gy, and com­pa­ti­ble ser­vers and mother­boards for the AMD Fire­Pro S9150 are also available from ser­ver inte­gra­tors ASUS, GIGABYTE, Super­mi­cro and TYAN.

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1 AMD Fire­Pro™ S9150 max power is 235W and deli­vers up to 2.53 TFLOPS peak dou­ble and up to 5.07 peak sin­gle pre­cis­i­on floa­ting point per­for­mance. Nvidia’s hig­hest per­forming ser­ver cards in the mar­ket as of June 2014 are the Tes­la K40, max power of 235W, with up to 1.43 TFLOPS peak dou­ble and up to 4.29 peak sin­gle, and the K10, max power 225W, with up to 4.58 TFLOPS peak sin­gle and 190 GFLOPS peak dou­ble pre­cis­i­on. Visit http://www.nvidia.com/object/tesla-servers.html for Nvi­dia pro­duct specs. FP-97

2 AMD Fire­Pro™ S9150 deli­vers up to 2.53 TFLOPS peak dou­ble pre­cis­i­on floa­ting point per­for­mance, and Nvidia’s hig­hest ser­ver GPU in the mar­ket as of June 2014 is the Tes­la K40 with up to 1.43 TFLOPS peak dou­ble pre­cis­i­on. Visit http://www.nvidia.com/object/tesla-servers.html for Nvi­dia pro­duct specs. FP-95

3 AMD Fire­Pro™ S9150 fea­tures 16GB GDDR5 memo­ry, a 512-bit memo­ry inter­face and up to 320 GB/s memo­ry band­width, and Nvidia’s hig­hest per­for­mance ser­ver GPU in the mar­ket as of June 2014 is the Tes­la K40 with 12GB GDDR5 memo­ry, a 384-bit memo­ry inter­face and up to 288 GB/s memo­ry band­width. Visit http://www.nvidia.com/object/tesla-servers.html for Nvi­dia pro­duct specs. FP-100

4 AMD plans to release Open­CL 2.0 dri­vers for the AMD Fire­Pro™ W9100, W8100 and S9150 cards in Q4 2014; con­for­mance test­ing is plan­ned at that time. Pre­vious gene­ra­ti­on AMD Fire­Pro pro­ducts may not sup­port Open­CL 2.0.

5 AMD STREAM tech­no­lo­gy is a set of fea­tures offe­red with sel­ect AMD Fire­Pro gra­phics cards for the acce­le­ra­ti­on of com­pu­te-inten­si­ve work­flows.  Not all pro­ducts have all fea­tures and full ena­blem­ent of some capa­bi­li­ties may requi­re com­ple­men­ta­ry soft­ware.  Check with your sys­tem manu­fac­tu­rer for spe­ci­fic capa­bi­li­ties and sup­port­ed technologies.