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U.S. Government Awards AMD Contract to Research Interconnect Architectures for High-Performance Computing

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$3.1 Mil­li­on Public-Pri­va­te Part­ner­ship to Acce­le­ra­te R&D of Cri­ti­cal Tech­no­lo­gies Nee­ded for Extre­me-Sca­le Computing

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Nov. 18, 2013 — AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announ­ced that it was sel­ec­ted for an award of $3.1 mil­li­on for a rese­arch pro­ject asso­cia­ted with the U.S. Depart­ment of Ener­gy (DOE) Extre­me-Sca­le Com­pu­ting Rese­arch and Deve­lo­p­ment Pro­gram, known as “Design­For­ward.” The DOE award is an expan­si­on of work star­ted as part of ano­ther two-year award AMD recei­ved in 2012 cal­led “Fast­For­ward.” The Fast­For­ward award aims to acce­le­ra­te the rese­arch and deve­lo­p­ment of pro­ces­sor and memo­ry tech­no­lo­gies nee­ded to sup­port extre­me-sca­le com­pu­ting. The Design­For­ward award sup­ports the rese­arch of the inter­con­nect archi­tec­tures and tech­no­lo­gies nee­ded to sup­port the data trans­fer capa­bi­li­ties in extre­me-sca­le com­pu­ting environments.

Design­For­ward is a joint­ly fun­ded col­la­bo­ra­ti­on bet­ween the DOE Office of Sci­ence and the U.S. Natio­nal Nuclear Secu­ri­ty Admi­nis­tra­ti­on (NNSA) to acce­le­ra­te the rese­arch and deve­lo­p­ment of cri­ti­cal tech­no­lo­gies nee­ded for extre­me-sca­le com­pu­ting, on the path toward Exas­ca­le com­pu­ting.  Exas­ca­le super­com­pu­ters are expec­ted to be capa­ble of per­forming com­pu­ta­ti­on hundreds of times fas­ter than today’s fas­test com­pu­ters, with only slight­ly hig­her power uti­liza­ti­on. Exas­ca­le super­com­pu­ters are desi­gned to break through the cur­rent limi­ta­ti­ons of today’s super­com­pu­ters by dra­ma­ti­cal­ly redu­cing the length of run time requi­red to per­form cal­cu­la­ti­ons and impro­ving the capa­bi­li­ty to per­form detail­ed simu­la­ti­ons, mode­ling, and ana­ly­ses of com­plex systems.

In order to achie­ve this dra­ma­tic increase in com­pu­ting capa­bi­li­ty while main­tai­ning low power con­sump­ti­on, leaps in rese­arch and deve­lo­p­ment need to be advan­ced in all aspects of computing.

“This award will enable AMD to con­ti­nue important rese­arch to help rea­li­ze the enorm­ous poten­ti­al of extre­me-sca­le com­pu­ting,” said Alan Lee, AMD cor­po­ra­te vice pre­si­dent of Rese­arch and Advan­ced Deve­lo­p­ment. “We belie­ve that our exper­ti­se in pro­ces­sors, memo­ry, and inter­con­nect tech­no­lo­gy can help fur­ther this ground­brea­king rese­arch in lar­ge-sca­le sys­tems.  Also, as foun­ding mem­bers of the Hete­ro­ge­neous Sys­tem Archi­tec­tu­re Foun­da­ti­on, we are offe­ring a mecha­nism to share our insights to bene­fit the indus­try-wide advance­ment of stan­dard, open systems.”

Lee over­sees AMD Rese­arch, a team that per­forms lea­ding-edge rese­arch and works with govern­ment orga­niza­ti­ons, uni­ver­si­ties and com­mer­cial enti­ties to col­la­bo­ra­te on next-gene­ra­ti­on tech­no­lo­gies.  For the DOE, its rese­arch is focu­sed on deve­lo­ping more effi­ci­ent and sca­lable sys­tems for extre­me-sca­le com­pu­ting, with the goal of mini­mi­zing power consumption.

The DOE’s stra­te­gic plan seeks to address the nation’s most pres­sing sci­en­ti­fic chal­lenges by advan­cing simu­la­ti­on-based sci­en­ti­fic dis­co­very made pos­si­ble by the world’s hig­hest per­forming Exas­ca­le com­pu­ters. Among its prio­ri­ties are: advan­cing medi­cal rese­arch, alter­na­ti­ve ener­gy and ener­gy sto­rage mate­ri­als, indus­tri­al design and more pre­cise models for cli­ma­te and wea­ther change.

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