World’s First Exascale Supercomputer Powered by AMD EPYC™ Processors and AMD Instinct™ Accelerators

— Fron­tier super­com­pu­ter, powered by AMD EPYC CPUs and AMD Instinct Acce­le­ra­tors, achie­ves num­ber one spots on Top500, Green500 and HPL-AI per­for­mance lists, an indus­try first —

AMD powers five of the top ten most powerful and eight of the top ten most effi­ci­ent super­com­pu­ters in the world —

SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 30, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Today, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) show­ca­sed its con­tin­ued lea­der­ship in high per­for­mance com­pu­ting (HPC) by powe­ring the fas­test and the most ener­gy effi­ci­ent super­com­pu­ters in the world, accor­ding to the latest Top500 and Green500 lists.

Oak Ridge Natio­nal Laboratory’s (ORNL) Fron­tier sys­tem sub­mit­ted its very first score to the Top500 list of 1.1 exa­flops, making it the world’s fas­test super­com­pu­ter and the first to break the exas­ca­le bar­ri­er. Frontier’s per­for­mance is more than dou­ble the num­ber two sys­tem and grea­ter than the sum of the next seven sys­tems on the latest Top500 list.

In addi­ti­on, the Fron­tier test and deve­lo­p­ment sys­tem (TDS) secu­red the top spot on the Green500 list, deli­ve­ring 62.68 gigaflops/watt power-effi­ci­en­cy from a sin­gle cabi­net of opti­mi­zed 3rd Gen AMD EPYC™ pro­ces­sors and AMD Instinct™ MI250x acce­le­ra­tors. Final­ly, Frontier’s mixed-pre­cis­i­on com­pu­ting per­for­mance clo­cked in at 6.86 exa­flops, as mea­su­red by the High-Per­for­mance Lin­pack-Acce­le­ra­tor Intro­s­pec­tion, or HPL-AI, test. Next steps for Fron­tier include con­tin­ued test­ing and vali­da­ti­on of the sys­tem, which remains on track for final accep­tance and ear­ly sci­ence access later in 2022, and open for full sci­ence at the begin­ning of 2023.

In other AMD EPYC and AMD Instinct MI200 sys­tems, CSC’s LUMI super­com­pu­ter is third on the Top500 list with 152 peta­flops of per­for­mance and third on the Green500 list with 51.63 gigaflops/watt power-effi­ci­en­cy, and the Ada­stra sys­tem at GENCI-CINES is tenth on the Top500 list and fourth on the Green500 list. The­se sys­tems con­ti­nue to high­light the per­for­mance and effi­ci­en­cy capa­bi­li­ties of the AMD Instinct acce­le­ra­tors at a node, cabi­net and sys­tem level.

Addi­tio­nal­ly, the Top500 and Green500 lists show­ca­se the rapidly gro­wing pre­fe­rence for AMD solu­ti­ons across the HPC indus­try. On the Top500 list, AMD powers 94 total sys­tems, an increase of 95% year-over-year, and AMD Instinct MI200 acce­le­ra­tors made their first ent­ry to the Top500 list with seven sys­tems. The per­for­mance num­ber deli­ver­ed by this sin­gle gene­ra­ti­on of AMD Instinct based sys­tems on the Top500 list almost equ­als the com­bi­ned Flops of the rest of the 161 acce­le­ra­ted sys­tem on Top500.

On the Green500 list, AMD EPYC pro­ces­sors and AMD Instinct acce­le­ra­tors now power the four most effi­ci­ent super­com­pu­ters in the world. Bey­ond that, AMD pro­ducts are in eight of the top ten, and 17 of the top 20 most efficient.

We are exci­ted that AMD EPYC pro­ces­sors and AMD Instinct acce­le­ra­tors power the world’s fas­test, most ener­gy effi­ci­ent, and first super­com­pu­ter to break the exas­ca­le bar­ri­er,” said For­rest Nor­rod, seni­or vice pre­si­dent and gene­ral mana­ger, Data Cen­ter Solu­ti­ons Group, AMD. “Inno­va­ti­on and deli­ve­ring more per­for­mance and effi­ci­en­cy for super­com­pu­ters is cri­ti­cal to addres­sing the world’s most com­plex chal­lenges. AMD EPYC pro­ces­sors and AMD Instinct acce­le­ra­tors con­ti­nue to push the enve­lo­pe in high per­for­mance com­pu­ting, pro­vi­ding the per­for­mance nee­ded to advan­ce sci­en­ti­fic discoveries.”

The Fron­tier super­com­pu­ter, powered by AMD and HPE, repres­ents a mas­si­ve step for­ward for both sci­ence and for the HPC indus­try,” said Bron­son Mes­ser, direc­tor of sci­ence, Oak Ridge Lea­der­ship Com­pu­ting Faci­li­ty. “Our col­la­bo­ra­ti­on with AMD has been cri­ti­cal for us to ensu­re that we deploy the world’s lea­ding plat­form for com­pu­ta­tio­nal sci­ence. The Fron­tier super­com­pu­ter taps into the com­bi­ned per­for­mance of enhan­ced AMD CPUs and AMD Instinct acce­le­ra­tors, along with an enhan­ced AMD ROCm™ 5 open soft­ware plat­form, to deli­ver the per­for­mance rese­ar­chers need to car­ry out sci­en­ti­fic rese­arch for the good of all mankind.”

LUMI, one of the EuroHPC world-class super­com­pu­ters and lea­ding plat­forms for arti­fi­ci­al intel­li­gence, is built with lea­der­ship envi­ron­men­tal sus­taina­bi­li­ty and per­for­mance in mind,” said Pek­ka Man­ni­nen, Direc­tor of the LUMI Lea­der­ship Com­pu­ting Faci­li­ty, CSC. “AMD EPYC pro­ces­sors and AMD Instinct acce­le­ra­tors enable us to reach our most ambi­tious sci­en­ti­fic rese­arch goals while at the same time mee­ting and excee­ding the EU’s most strin­gent cli­ma­te tar­gets. We are extre­me­ly proud of our third-place posi­ti­on in the Green500 list, achie­ving 51.63 gigaflops/watt power-efficiency.”

The AMD Powered HPC Eco­sys­tem Con­ti­nues to Grow
AMD is lea­ding the way in HPC by enab­ling part­ners and cus­to­mers to deploy all sizes of clus­ters, across key rese­arch are­as inclu­ding manu­fac­tu­ring, life sci­en­ces, finan­cial ser­vices, cli­ma­te rese­arch and more. For ins­tance, AMD EPYC pro­ces­sors now power Thailand’s Natio­nal Sci­ence and Tech­no­lo­gy Deve­lo­p­ment Agency’s latest super­com­pu­ter, pro­vi­ding the per­for­mance to advan­ce rese­arch in medi­ci­ne, wea­ther fore­cas­ting and more. Addi­tio­nal­ly, The Ohio Super­com­pu­ter Cen­ter recent­ly announ­ced Ascend, a new HPC clus­ter com­pri­sed of Dell Tech­no­lo­gies PowerEdge ser­vers powered by AMD EPYC processors.

The AMD Instinct and ROCm™ eco­sys­tems offer cus­to­mers sup­port for key appli­ca­ti­ons in HPC, AI and machi­ne lear­ning as well as HIP and OpenMP® pro­gramming models, com­pi­ler tool­chain and ana­ly­sis tools for sci­en­ti­fic and indus­tri­al appli­ca­ti­ons. Addi­tio­nal­ly, the AMD Acce­le­ra­tor Cloud pro­vi­des an envi­ron­ment to remo­te­ly access, eva­lua­te and get the most out of AMD Instinct acce­le­ra­tors and ROCm software.

HPC in the Cloud
HPC in the cloud expands access to com­pu­te, unlo­cking key rese­arch appli­ca­ti­ons and busi­ness workloads that lead to bet­ter desi­gned pro­ducts and acce­le­ra­te time to mar­ket. The latest Goog­le Cloud C2D vir­tu­al machi­nes (VMs) with con­fi­den­ti­al com­pu­ting extend the momen­tum of AMD EPYC pro­ces­sors powe­ring high­ly-per­for­mant and effi­ci­ent HPC solu­ti­ons from lea­ding cloud ser­vice pro­vi­ders. Elec­tric super­car inno­va­tor, Rimac, recent­ly deploy­ed Micro­soft Azu­re HBv3 vir­tu­al machi­nes – powered by 3rd Gen AMD EPYC™ pro­ces­sors with AMD 3D V‑Cache™ tech­no­lo­gy – to increase per­for­mance and sca­la­bi­li­ty for its elec­tric super­car simulations.

Visit the AMD booth #E510 at ISC 2022 to learn more about AMD solu­ti­ons for HPC and talk with AMD experts.

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About AMD
For more than 50 years AMD has dri­ven inno­va­ti­on in high-per­for­mance com­pu­ting, gra­phics and visua­liza­ti­on tech­no­lo­gies. Bil­li­ons of peo­p­le, lea­ding For­tu­ne 500 busi­nesses and cut­ting-edge sci­en­ti­fic rese­arch insti­tu­ti­ons around the world rely on AMD tech­no­lo­gy dai­ly to impro­ve how they live, work and play. AMD employees are focu­sed on buil­ding lea­der­ship high-per­for­mance and adap­ti­ve 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, Lin­ke­dIn and Twit­ter pages.

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