AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announ­ced mul­ti­ple new high-per­for­mance com­pu­ting wins for AMD EPYC pro­ces­sors, inclu­ding that the seventh fas­test super­com­pu­ter in the world and four of the 50 hig­hest-per­for­mance sys­tems on the bi-annu­al TOP500 list are now powered by AMD. Momen­tum for AMD EPYC™ pro­ces­sors in advan­ced sci­ence and health rese­arch con­ti­nues to grow with new instal­la­ti­ons at India­na Uni­ver­si­ty, Pur­due Uni­ver­si­ty and CERN as well as high-per­for­mance com­pu­ting (HPC) cloud ins­tances from Ama­zon Web Ser­vices, Goog­le, and Ora­cle Cloud.

“The lea­ding HPC insti­tu­ti­ons are incre­asing­ly lever­aging the power of 2^nd Gen AMD EPYC pro­ces­sors to enable cut­ting-edge rese­arch that addres­ses the world’s grea­test chal­lenges,” said For­rest Nor­rod, seni­or vice pre­si­dent and gene­ral mana­ger, data cen­ter and embedded sys­tems group, AMD. “Our AMD EPYC CPUs, Rade­on Instinct acce­le­ra­tors and open soft­ware pro­gramming envi­ron­ment are hel­ping to advan­ce the indus­try towards exas­ca­le-class com­pu­ting, and we are proud to streng­then the glo­bal HPC eco­sys­tem through our sup­port of the top super­com­pu­ting clus­ters and cloud com­pu­ting environments.”

From powe­ring the upco­ming world’s fas­test exas­ca­le super­com­pu­ters, Fron­tier and El Capi­tan, to sup­port­ing workloads in the cloud, and dri­ving new advance­ments in health rese­arch, the high core count and exten­si­ve memo­ry band­width of AMD EPYC pro­ces­sors are hel­ping meet the gro­wing demand from HPC pro­vi­ders for impro­ved per­for­mance, sca­la­bi­li­ty, effi­ci­en­cy, and total cost of ownership.

AMD Continues Expanding Share of TOP500 Supercomputers

Four AMD EPYC powered super­com­pu­ters  are now among the 50 hig­hest-per­for­mance sys­tems in the world and the­re are now ten AMD EPYC-powered super­com­pu­ters on the TOP500:

• Sele­ne (No.7) an AMD EPYC 7742-based sys­tem in a DGX A100 Super­POD plat­form from Nvidia,
• Bel­e­nos (No.30), one of the two Bull­Se­qua­na XH2000 super­com­pu­ters at Météo-France,  the French natio­nal meteo­ro­lo­gi­cal ser­vice powered by 2^nd Gen AMD EPYC processors,
• Joli­ot-Curie (No.34), moved up the list based on a new sub­mis­si­on for the Bull­Se­qua­na XH2000 sys­tem using 2^nd Gen AMD EPYC™ pro­ces­sors at GENCI, the French natio­nal high-per­for­mance com­pu­ting organization,
• Mahti (No. 48), a  2^nd Gen AMD EPYC pro­ces­sor powered Bull­Se­qua­na XH2000 super­com­pu­ter at Finland’s Cen­ter for Sci­ence Infor­ma­ti­on Technology,

“Atos is proud to pro­vi­de to its cus­to­mers with cut­ting edge tech­no­lo­gy, inte­gra­ting 2nd Gen AMD EPYC pro­ces­sors as soon as released, and demons­t­ra­ting increased per­for­mance on HPC appli­ca­ti­ons in pro­duc­tion envi­ron­ments,” said Agnès Bou­dot, group seni­or vice pre­si­dent, Head of HPC and Quan­tum at Atos.

AMD Powered Supercomputing Systems Drive Research of the Future  

Two uni­ver­si­ties announ­ced new rese­arch super­com­pu­ting sys­tems powered by AMD EPYC pro­ces­sors in Dell EMC PowerEdge servers.

India­na Uni­ver­si­ty will deploy Jet­stream 2, an eight-peta­flop dis­tri­bu­ted cloud com­pu­ting sys­tem powered by upco­ming 3^rd Gen AMD EPYC pro­ces­sors. This sys­tem will be used by rese­ar­chers in a varie­ty of fields such as AI, social sci­en­ces, and COVID-19 rese­arch. AMD EPYC pro­ces­sors alre­a­dy power Big Red 200 at the India­na Uni­ver­si­ty campus.

“Jet­stream 2 bund­les com­pu­ta­ti­on, soft­ware and access to sto­rage for indi­vi­du­als and teams of rese­ar­chers across an array of are­as of rese­arch,” said David Han­cock, Direc­tor in Rese­arch Tech­no­lo­gies, affi­lia­ted with the Per­va­si­ve Tech­no­lo­gy Insti­tu­te at India­na Uni­ver­si­ty. “With the next gene­ra­ti­on AMD EPYC pro­ces­sor, Jet­stream 2 will pro­vi­de 8 peta­flops of cloud com­pu­ting power, giving more access to high-end tech­no­lo­gies to enable deep lear­ning and arti­fi­ci­al intel­li­gence techniques.”

Pur­due Uni­ver­si­ty will deploy Anvil, a super­com­pu­ter powered by next gene­ra­ti­on AMD EPYC pro­ces­sors, which will pro­vi­de advan­ced com­pu­ting capa­bi­li­ties to sup­port a wide ran­ge of com­pu­ta­tio­nal and data-inten­si­ve rese­arch. AMD EPYC will also power Purdue’s latest com­mu­ni­ty clus­ter “Bell”, sche­du­led for deploy­ment ear­ly this fall. 

In addi­ti­on, CERN, the lar­gest par­tic­le phy­sics labo­ra­to­ry in the world, recent­ly sel­ec­ted 2^nd Gen AMD EPYC pro­ces­sors in Giga­byte ser­vers to harness the mas­si­ve amounts of data from their latest Lar­ge Hadron Col­l­i­der (LHC) expe­ri­ment to rapidly detect sub­ato­mic par­tic­les known as beau­ty quarks. A new case stu­dy details how com­bi­ning the increased band­width of PCIe® 4.0, DDR4 memo­ry speed, and the 64 core AMD EPYC™ 7742 pro­ces­sor allows rese­ar­chers to coll­ect the raw data streams gene­ra­ted by 40 tera­bytes of col­li­si­on data occur­ring every second in the LHC.

High Performance Computing in the Cloud with AMD EPYC

As the HPC indus­try evol­ves to sup­port new workload demands, cloud pro­vi­ders con­ti­nue to adopt 2^nd Gen AMD EPYC pro­ces­sors to pro­vi­de lea­der­ship per­for­mance and fle­xi­ble solu­ti­ons. With recent cloud wins among tech­no­lo­gy part­ners like Ama­zon Web Ser­vices, Goog­le Cloud and Ora­cle Cloud, AMD is hel­ping indus­try lea­ders push the boun­da­ries in the new era of HPC and cloud computing.

AMD and Micro­soft Azu­re have con­tin­ued to build upon their cloud part­ner­ship with the recent­ly announ­ced HBv2-Series VMs for high-per­for­mance com­pu­ting workloads. The 2^nd Gen AMD EPYC pro­ces­sors pro­vi­de Micro­soft Azu­re cus­to­mers with impres­si­ve core sca­ling, access to mas­si­ve memo­ry band­width and are the first x86 ser­ver pro­ces­sors that sup­port PCIe® 4.0, enab­ling some of the best high-per­for­mance com­pu­ting expe­ri­en­ces in the indus­try. Tog­e­ther, AMD and Micro­soft Azu­re will sup­port real-world HPC workloads, such as CFD, expli­cit fini­te ele­ment ana­ly­sis, seis­mic pro­ces­sing, reser­voir mode­ling, ren­de­ring, and wea­ther simulation. 

AMD Updates ROCm™ For Heterogenous Software Support

Com­mu­ni­ty sup­port con­ti­nues to grow for AMD Rade­on Open eCo­sys­tem (ROCm™), AMD’s open source foun­da­ti­on for hete­ro­ge­nous com­pu­te. Major deve­lo­p­ment mile­sto­nes in the latest update include:

• The HIP-Clang com­pi­ler is now up-strea­med and review­ed by the LLVM™ com­mu­ni­ty, pro­vi­ding a bet­ter open source expe­ri­ence for the developer,
• A new roc­pro­fi­ler start/stop API to enable/disable GPU ker­nel HSA dis­patch call­backs, incre­asing deve­lo­per pro­duc­ti­vi­ty and shor­tening the pro­fil­ing run times,
• AMD RCCL com­pa­ti­bi­li­ty with NVIDIA Com­mu­ni­ca­ti­ons Coll­ec­ti­ve Libra­ry (NCCL) v2.6.4m,
• MIO­pen pro­vi­des an optio­nal pre-com­pi­led ker­nel packa­ge to redu­ce start­up latency,
• A new CPU Affi­ni­ty API is intro­du­ced for aiding appli­ca­ti­ons to sel­ect the appro­pria­te memo­ry node for a given acce­le­ra­tor (GPU) and a given CPU,
• The new Rade­on Per­for­mance Pri­mi­ti­ves libra­ry is a com­pre­hen­si­ve high-per­for­mance com­pu­ter visi­on libra­ry for AMD (CPU and GPU) with the HIP and Open­CL backend.

Join AMD CTO and exe­cu­ti­ve vice pre­si­dent, Mark Paper­mas­ter, for a web­i­nar on July 15^th to dis­cuss the full ran­ge of AMD solu­ti­ons and upco­ming inno­va­tions in HPC. Click the link for the time most con­ve­ni­ent for you to regis­ter: 9 AM EDT, 12 PM EDT or 9 PM EDT.

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For 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 logo, EPYC, Rade­on Instinct, ROCm, and com­bi­na­ti­ons the­reof are trade­marks of Advan­ced Micro Devices, Inc. Ama­zon Web Ser­vices (AWS) is a trade­mark of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affi­lia­tes in the United Sta­tes and/or other count­ries, Goog­le Cloud Plat­form is a trade­mark of Goog­le LLC., LLVM is a trade­mark of LLVM Foun­da­ti­on, Open­CL is a trade­mark of Apple Inc. used by per­mis­si­on by Khro­nos Group, Inc., Ora­cle is a regis­tered mark of Ora­cle and/or its affi­lia­tes. PCIe is a regis­tered trade­mark of PCI-SIG Cor­po­ra­ti­on. Other pro­duct names used in this publi­ca­ti­on are for iden­ti­fi­ca­ti­on pur­po­ses only and may be trade­marks of their respec­ti­ve com­pa­nies. Links to third par­ty sites are pro­vi­ded for con­ve­ni­ence and unless expli­cit­ly sta­ted, AMD is not respon­si­ble for the con­tents of such lin­ked sites and no endor­se­ment is implied.

This press release con­ta­ins for­ward-loo­king state­ments con­cer­ning Advan­ced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) inclu­ding fea­tures, func­tion­a­li­ty, avai­la­bi­li­ty, timing, deploy­ment and expec­ta­ti­ons of 2^nd  Gen AMD EPYC™ CPU powered super­com­pu­ter sys­tems, which are made pur­su­ant to the Safe Har­bor pro­vi­si­ons of the Pri­va­te Secu­ri­ties Liti­ga­ti­on Reform Act of 1995. For­ward-loo­king state­ments are com­mon­ly iden­ti­fied by words such as “would,” “intends,” “belie­ves,” “expects,” “may,” “will,” “should,” “seeks,” “intends,” “plans,” “pro for­ma,” “esti­ma­tes,” “anti­ci­pa­tes,” or the nega­ti­ve of the­se words and phra­ses, other varia­ti­ons of the­se words and phra­ses or com­pa­ra­ble ter­mi­no­lo­gy. Inves­tors are cau­tio­ned that the for­ward-loo­king state­ments in this docu­ment are based on cur­rent beliefs, assump­ti­ons and expec­ta­ti­ons, speak only as of the date of this docu­ment and invol­ve risks and uncer­tain­ties that could cau­se actu­al results to dif­fer mate­ri­al­ly from cur­rent expec­ta­ti­ons. Such state­ments are sub­ject to cer­tain known and unknown risks and uncer­tain­ties, many of which are dif­fi­cult to pre­dict and gene­ral­ly bey­ond AMD’s con­trol, that could cau­se actu­al results and other future events to dif­fer mate­ri­al­ly from tho­se expres­sed in, or impli­ed or pro­jec­ted by, the for­ward-loo­king infor­ma­ti­on and state­ments. Mate­ri­al fac­tors that could cau­se actu­al results to dif­fer mate­ri­al­ly from cur­rent expec­ta­ti­ons include, wit­hout limi­ta­ti­on, the fol­lo­wing: Intel Corporation’s domi­nan­ce of the micro­pro­ces­sor mar­ket and its aggres­si­ve busi­ness prac­ti­ces may limit AMD’s abili­ty to com­pe­te effec­tively; AMD reli­es on third par­ties to manu­fac­tu­re its pro­ducts, and if they are unable to do so on a time­ly basis in suf­fi­ci­ent quan­ti­ties and using com­pe­ti­ti­ve tech­no­lo­gies, AMD’s busi­ness could be mate­ri­al­ly adver­se­ly affec­ted; fail­ure to achie­ve expec­ted manu­fac­tu­ring yields for AMD’s pro­ducts could nega­tively impact its finan­cial results; the suc­cess of AMD’s busi­ness is depen­dent upon its abili­ty to intro­du­ce pro­ducts on a time­ly basis with fea­tures and per­for­mance levels that pro­vi­de value to its cus­to­mers while sup­port­ing and coin­ci­ding with signi­fi­cant indus­try tran­si­ti­ons; if AMD can­not gene­ra­te suf­fi­ci­ent reve­nue and ope­ra­ting cash flow or obtain exter­nal finan­cing, it may face a cash short­fall and be unable to make all of its plan­ned invest­ments in rese­arch and deve­lo­p­ment or other stra­te­gic invest­ments; the loss of a signi­fi­cant cus­to­mer may have a mate­ri­al adver­se effect on AMD; AMD’s receipt of reve­nue from its semi-cus­tom SoC pro­ducts is depen­dent upon its tech­no­lo­gy being desi­gned into third-par­ty pro­ducts and the suc­cess of tho­se pro­ducts; glo­bal eco­no­mic and mar­ket uncer­tain­ty may adver­se­ly impact AMD’s busi­ness and ope­ra­ting results; the ongo­ing novel coro­na­vi­rus (COVID-19) pan­de­mic could mate­ri­al­ly adver­se­ly affect AMD’s busi­ness, finan­cial con­di­ti­on and results of ope­ra­ti­ons; AMD’s world­wi­de ope­ra­ti­ons are sub­ject to poli­ti­cal, legal and eco­no­mic risks and natu­ral dis­as­ters which could have a mate­ri­al adver­se effect on AMD; govern­ment actions and regu­la­ti­ons such as export admi­nis­tra­ti­on regu­la­ti­ons, tariffs and trade pro­tec­tion mea­su­res, may limit AMD’s abili­ty to export its pro­ducts to cer­tain cus­to­mers; AMD pro­ducts may be sub­ject to secu­ri­ty vul­nerabi­li­ties that could have a mate­ri­al adver­se effect on AMD; IT outa­ges, data loss, data brea­ches and cyber-attacks could com­pro­mi­se AMD’s intellec­tu­al pro­per­ty or other sen­si­ti­ve infor­ma­ti­on, be cos­t­ly to reme­dia­te and cau­se signi­fi­cant dama­ge to its busi­ness, repu­ta­ti­on and ope­ra­ti­ons; uncer­tain­ties invol­ving the orde­ring and ship­ment of AMD’s pro­ducts could mate­ri­al­ly adver­se­ly affect it; AMD’s ope­ra­ting results are sub­ject to quar­ter­ly and sea­so­nal sales pat­terns; the agree­ments gover­ning AMD’s notes and the Secu­red Revol­ving Faci­li­ty impo­se rest­ric­tions on AMD that may adver­se­ly affect its abili­ty to ope­ra­te its busi­ness; the mar­kets in which AMD’s pro­ducts are sold are high­ly com­pe­ti­ti­ve; the con­ver­si­on of the 2.125% Con­ver­ti­ble Seni­or Notes due 2026 may dilute the owner­ship inte­rest of its exis­ting stock­hol­ders, or may other­wi­se depress the pri­ce of its com­mon stock; the demand for AMD’s pro­ducts depends in part on the mar­ket con­di­ti­ons in the indus­tries into which they are sold. Fluc­tua­tions in demand for AMD’s pro­ducts or a mar­ket decli­ne in any of the­se indus­tries could have a mate­ri­al adver­se effect on its results of ope­ra­ti­ons; AMD’s abili­ty to design and intro­du­ce new pro­ducts in a time­ly man­ner is depen­dent upon third-par­ty intellec­tu­al pro­per­ty; AMD depends on third-par­ty com­pa­nies for the design, manu­fac­tu­re and sup­p­ly of mother­boards, soft­ware, memo­ry and other com­pu­ter plat­form com­pon­ents to sup­port its busi­ness; if AMD loses Micro­soft Corporation’s sup­port for its pro­ducts or other soft­ware ven­dors do not design and deve­lop soft­ware to run on AMD’s pro­ducts, its abili­ty to sell its pro­ducts could be mate­ri­al­ly adver­se­ly affec­ted; and AMD’s reli­ance on third-par­ty dis­tri­bu­tors and AIB part­ners sub­jects it to cer­tain risks.  Inves­tors are urged to review in detail the risks and uncer­tain­ties in AMD’s Secu­ri­ties and Exch­an­ge Com­mis­si­on filings, inclu­ding but not limi­t­ed to AMD’s Quar­ter­ly Report on Form 10‑Q for the quar­ter ended March 28, 2020.