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AMD Processors Accelerating Performance of Top Supercomputers Worldwide
Growing preference for EPYC™ processors resulted in the number of AMD-powered supercomputers growing 3.5x year-over-year
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 16, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — 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. (…) Weiterlesen »
Still waiting for Exascale: Japan’s Fugaku outperforms all competition once again
FRANKFURT, Germany; BERKELEY, Calif.; and KNOXVILLE, Tenn.— The 58th annual edition of the TOP500 saw little change in the Top10. The Microsoft Azure system called Voyager-EUS2 was the only machine to shake up the top spots, claiming No. 10. Based on an AMD EPYC processor with 48 cores and 2.45GHz working together with an NVIDIA A100 GPU and 80 GB of memory, Voyager-EUS2 also utilizes a Mellanox HDR Infiniband for data transfer.
While there were no other changes to the positions of the systems in the Top10, Perlmutter at NERSC improved its performance to 70.9 Pflop/s. Housed at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Perlmutter’s increased performance couldn’t move it from its previously held No. 5 spot.
Fugaku continues to hold the No. 1 position that it first earned in June 2020. Its HPL benchmark score is 442 Pflop/s, which exceeded the performance of Summit at No. 2 by 3x. Installed at the Riken Center for Computational Science (R‑CCS) in Kobe, Japan, it was co-developed by Riken and Fujitsu and is based on Fujitsu’s custom ARM A64FX processor. Fugaku also uses Fujitsu’s Tofu D interconnect to transfer data between nodes.
In single or further-reduced precision, which are often used in machine learning and A.I. application, Fugaku has a peak performance above 1,000 PFlop/s (1 Exaflop/s). As a result, Fugaku is often introduced as the first “Exascale” supercomputer. (…) Weiterlesen »
Xilinx Launches Alveo U55C, Its Most Powerful Accelerator Card Ever, Purpose-Built for HPC and Big Data Workloads
Breakthrough HPC clustering solution and simplified programmability enable massive scale-out of cutting-edge compute across existing customer infrastructure and network
ST. LOUIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–SC21 – Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX), the leader in adaptive computing, today at the SC21 supercomputing conference introduced the Alveo™ U55C data center accelerator card and a new standards-based, API-driven clustering solution for deploying FPGAs at massive scale. The Alveo U55C accelerator brings superior performance-per-watt to high performance computing (HPC) and database workloads and easily scales through the Xilinx® HPC clustering solution.
Purpose-built for HPC and big data workloads, the new Alveo U55C card is the company’s most powerful Alveo accelerator card ever, offering the highest compute density and HBM capacity in the Alveo accelerator portfolio. Together with the new Xilinx RoCE v2-based clustering solution, a broad spectrum of customers with large-scale compute workloads can now implement powerful FPGA-based HPC clustering using their existing data center infrastructure and network. (…) Weiterlesen »
Samsung Develops Industry’s First LPDDR5X DRAM
Samsung’s LPDDR5X DRAM will provide over 1.3x faster processing speeds and consumer nearly 20% less power than the previous LPDDR5 solution
The LPDDR5X solution will broaden the use of high-performance, low-power memory beyond smartphones to AI and edge applications
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced memory technology, today announced that it has developed the industry’s first 14-nanometer (nm) based 16-gigabit (Gb) Low Power Double Data Rate 5X (LPDDR5X) DRAM, designed to drive further growth throughout the high-speed data service applications including 5G, artificial intelligence (AI) and the metaverse.
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Avnet Collaborates with Digital Realty to Develop “Try and Buy” High Performance, Cloud-Based Universal Video Streaming Solutions
Solutions enable companies to be their own video broadcasters and application providers to enhance their product offering
PHOENIX–Leading global technology solutions provider Avnet (Nasdaq: AVT) is teaming up with Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR), the largest global provider of cloud- and carrier-neutral data center, colocation and interconnection solutions, to equip companies and application providers to develop, launch, scale and/or enhance their video broadcast product offerings. Jointly developed specifically for high performance, cloud-based and secure universal video streaming, the solutions from Digital Realty and Avnet will be one-touch (transaction), cost-effective “try and buy” options. The team’s first available solution utilizes a 3rd Gen AMD EPYC-based server integrated with a Xilinx U30 FPGA* accelerator card delivering exceptional performance and flexibility.
A recent study by Deloitte (2021) notes that the average American home has four digital video service subscriptions and the same study found that 39% of Baby Boomers and 29% of Generation X rank on demand video as their preferred entertainment activity. The joint Avnet and Digital Realty video streaming solutions enable support for a wide base of video streaming applications such as: video-based eCommerce, social media-based applications, video collaboration, telemedicine, live sports and events, auctions, gambling and sports betting. (…) Weiterlesen »
CXL™ Consortium & Gen‑Z Consortium Sign Letter of Intent to Advance Interconnect Technology
November 10, 2021 — High performance computing continues to evolve—meeting the ever-increasing demand for high efficiency, low-latency, rapid and seamless processing. The Gen‑Z Consortium was founded in 2016 to create a next-generation fabric capable of bridging existing solutions while enabling new, unbounded innovation in an open, non-proprietary standards body.
In 2019, the CXL™ Consortium launched to deliver Compute Express Link™ (CXL™), an industry-supported cache-coherent interconnect designed for processors, memory expansion, and accelerators. The CXL Consortium and the Gen‑Z Consortium established a joint memorandum of understanding (MOU) providing an opportunity for collaboration to define bridging between the protocols. This took the form of a joint working group that encouraged creativity and innovation between the two organizations toward the betterment of the industry as a whole.
Looking to the future, the CXL Consortium and Gen‑Z Consortium have identified synergies between the two consortia that resulted in the signing of a Letter of Intent which, if passed and agreed upon by all parties, would transfer the Gen‑Z Specifications and all Gen‑Z assets to the CXL Consortium. (…) Weiterlesen »
IBM Cloud Selects 3rd Gen AMD EPYC™ Processors for New Bare Metal Offering for Compute-Intensive Workloads
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — 11/10/2021- AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announced today that IBM Cloud has chosen 3rd Gen AMD EPYC™ processors to expand its bare metal service offerings designed to power customers’ demanding workloads and solutions. The new servers, featuring 128 cores, up to 4TB of memory and 10 NVMe drives per server, give users full access to high-end, dual-socket performance with AMD EPYC 7763 processors; a first for IBM Cloud in a dual-socket platform.
“Our customers have a high demand for computing processing power and the new 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors provide the high levels of performance and scalability we were looking for,” said Suresh Gopalakrishnan, vice president, IBM Cloud. “Our collaboration with AMD has helped us deliver our highest core counts and bandwidth ever available for IBM Cloud customers, to offer top market performance for today and tomorrow’s demanding workloads.” (…) Weiterlesen »
AMD Unveils Workload-Tailored Innovations and Products at The Accelerated Data Center Premiere
— AMD launches AMD Instinct™ MI200 series accelerators, previews 3rd Gen AMD EPYC™ processors with AMD 3D V‑Cache, and provides new details on expanded set of next-generation EPYC™ processors powered by “Zen 4” and “Zen 4c” CPU cores—
— Meta chooses EPYC™ CPUs for its data center —
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 08, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) held the virtual Accelerated Data Center Premiere, launching the new AMD Instinct™ MI200 series accelerators, the world’s fastest accelerator for high performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) workloadsi, and provided a preview of the innovative 3rd Gen AMD EPYC™ processors with AMD 3D V‑Cache. AMD also revealed new information about its next generation “Zen 4” processor core and announced the new “Zen 4c” processor core, both of which will power future AMD server processors and are designed to extend the company’s leadership products for the data center.
“We are in a high-performance computing megacycle that is driving demand for more compute to power the services and devices that impact every aspect of our daily lives,” said Dr. Lisa Su, president and CEO, AMD. “We are building significant momentum in the data center with our leadership product portfolio, including Meta’s adoption of AMD EPYC to power their infrastructure and the buildout of Frontier, the first U.S. exascale supercomputer which will be powered by EPYC and AMD Instinct processors. In addition, today we announced a breadth of new products that build on that momentum in next-generation EPYC processors with new innovations in design, leadership, 3D packaging technology, and 5 nm high-performance manufacturing to further extend our leadership for cloud, enterprise and HPC customers.” (…) Weiterlesen »
New AMD Instinct™ MI200 Series Accelerators Bring Leadership HPC and AI Performance to Power Exascale Systems and More
November 08, 2021 12:00pm EST
- With new AMD CDNA™ 2 architecture, AMD Instinct MI200 series accelerators deliver ground-breaking 4.9x advantage in HPC performance1 compared to competing data center accelerators, expediting science and discovery -
- MI200 series accelerators are first multi-die GPU, first to support 128GB of HBM2e memory, and deliver a substantial boost for applications critical to the foundation of science -
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 08, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced the new AMD Instinct™ MI200 series accelerators, the first exascale-class GPU accelerators. AMD Instinct MI200 series accelerators includes the world’s fastest high performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) accelerator,1 the AMD Instinct™ MI250X. (…) Weiterlesen »
AMD Radeon™ PRO V620 GPU Delivers Powerful, Multi-Purpose Data Center Visual Performance for Today’s Demanding Cloud Workloads
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 04, 2021 — AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announced the AMD Radeon PRO™ V620 GPU, built with the latest AMD RDNA™ 2 architecture which delivers high-performance GPU acceleration for today’s demanding cloud workloads including immersive AAA game experiences, intensive 3D workloads and modern office productivity applications at scale in the cloud.
With its innovative GPU-partitioning capabilities, multi-stream hardware accelerated encoders and 32GB GDDR6 memory, the AMD Radeon PRO V620 offers dedicated GPU resources that scale to multiple graphics users, helping ensure cost-effective graphics acceleration for a range of workloads1. Built using the same GPU architecture that powers the latest generation game consoles and PC game experiences, the AMD Radeon PRO V620 GPU is also designed to develop and deliver immersive AAA game experiences.
“AMD is bringing high-performance AAA gaming experience to the cloud with the introduction of the AMD Radeon PRO V620,” said Jeff Connell, corporate vice president, Visual and Cloud Gaming, AMD. “We’re seeing adoption of gaming in the cloud from customers around the world, taking advantage of the latest virtualization features delivering efficient and low latency content streaming to multiple simultaneous users. AMD Radeon PRO V620 is yet another proof point of AMD’s excellence in gaming – from the PC to the console and now to the cloud.” (…) Weiterlesen »
AMD EPYC™ Processors Expand Performance and Security Innovation Across Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines Portfolio
—Microsoft Azure introduces new Dasv5 and Easv5 VMs based on 3rd Gen AMD EPYC™ processors, and new confidential VMs based on AMD SEV-SNP technology —
SANTA CLARA, Calif. 11/04/2021 — Today, AMD announced its continued momentum and collaboration with Microsoft Azure, who is offering the 3rd Gen AMD EPYC™ processor in the latest generation of Dasv5 and Easv5 Azure Virtual Machines (VMs). Azure is also introducing new confidential VMs, DCasv5 and ECasv5, which use the latest advanced security features available in 3rd Gen EPYC processors, including Secure Encrypted Virtualization-Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP).
The new Azure confidential VMs, DCasv5 and ECasv5, the first EPYC processor-based confidential VMs at Azure and the first confidential VMs to use SEV-SNP, will enable customers to have the data in their security focused applications encrypted in use, in transit and at rest. The updated Dasv5 VMs, optimized for general purpose workloads, and the Easv5 VMs, optimized for memory-based workloads, deliver better price-performance for most general purpose and memory intensive workloads compared to prior EPYC processor-based Microsoft Azure VMs.
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G.SKILL Showcases DDR5-7000 CL40 Extreme Speed Memory
(2 November 2021) – G.SKILL International Enterprise Co., Ltd., the world’s leading manufacturer of extreme performance memory and gaming peripherals, is thrilled to announce the achievement of DDR5-7000 CL40-40–40-76 32GB (2x16GB) extreme speed, passing the Memtest stability test. 7000MT/s memory speed is an exciting milestone, as it was only seen under liquid nitrogen sub-zero temperature cooling not long ago in overclocking records. Accomplished with high-performance Samsung DDR5 components, this extreme speed memory is truly worthy of the G.SKILL flagship Trident Z5 family classification. (…) Weiterlesen »
BIOSTAR ANNOUNCES NEW AMD RADEON™ RX 6600 GRAPHICS CARD
BOOST YOUR GAMING EXPERIENCE TO THE NEXT LEVEL
November 2nd, 2021, Taipei, Taiwan - BIOSTAR, a leading manufacturer of motherboards, graphics cards and storage devices, today announced the new BIOSTAR AMD Radeon™ RX 6600 graphics card. (…) Weiterlesen »
Micron Delivers High-Performance GDDR6 Memory for AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series Graphics Cards
Collaboration leverages innovation in Ultra-Bandwidth Solutions to enable high frame rates and enhanced 4K resolution gaming
BOISE, Idaho, Nov. 01, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU), today announced that its high-performance 16Gb/16Gbps GDDR6 memory solution is now available with AMD Radeon™ RX 6000 Series graphics cards built on the AMD RDNA™ 2 gaming architecture. Using Micron’s advanced 1z process technology, this latest version of GDDR6 enables up to 512GB/s system performance for demanding applications like gaming and graphics. Today’s announcement continues Micron’s rich history of innovation and collaboration with industry leaders to deliver breakthrough performance that enables the most advanced gaming solutions.
As graphics and gaming applications become more demanding, so do the requirements for high bandwidth memory and system performance. Modern gamers expect high-resolution, immersive experiences, and GDDR6 delivers with its support of fast frame rates. The result is excellent performance and speed that minimize lag time and provide gamers with lifelike effects.
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AMD Promotes Server SoC Architect Kevin Lepak to Corporate Fellow
Lepak recognized at highest technical level for outstanding contributions to AMD processor design
SANTA CLARA, Calif. 10/28/2021 AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced the appointment of Senior Fellow and Server SoC (system on chip) Architect Kevin Lepak to AMD Corporate Fellow, in recognition of his critical role in the design of next-generation AMD EPYC™ processors. Lepak achieved an excellent record of overseeing the execution and delivery of leadership data center processors for AMD, including 2nd and 3rd Gen AMD EPYC™ CPUs and next generation AMD Instinct™ accelerators. As AMD Corporate Fellow, Lepak expands on his leadership in chip design to play a larger role in evolving AMD’s processor and systems vision. (…) Weiterlesen »