Schlagwort: COVID-19
AMD Expands High Performance Compute Fund to Aid Researchers Solving the World’s Toughest Challenges
AMD Combines HPC Fund with Xilinx Heterogeneous Accelerated Compute Cluster (HACC) Program and Adds Seven Petaflops of Supercomputer Capacity to Power Groundbreaking Research
SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 01, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced the expansion of its High Performance Compute (HPC) Fund with the addition of 7 petaflops of computing power to assist global researchers working to solve the most demanding challenges facing society today. AMD also announced that the AMD HPC Fund will now integrate Xilinx Heterogeneous Accelerated Compute Clusters (HACC) program, providing researchers with access to AMD EPYC™ processors, AMD Instinct™ accelerators, Xilinx Alveo™ accelerators and Xilinx Versal™ ACAPs to advance research in areas including climate change, health care, transportation, big data and more.
The new contribution brings the total amount of computing capacity donated by AMD to over 20 petaflops with a market value of more than $31 million, as of May 2022. The additional computing resources will build on the AMD COVID-19 HPC Fund that was established in 2020 to provide research institutions with computing resources to accelerate medical research on COVID-19 and other diseases.
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HLRS RECEIVES DONATION TO SUPPORT COVID-RELATED RESEARCH AND URGENT COMPUTING
19 April 2021-Computing hardware manufacturer AMD has donated 10 server systems to the High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) that will be dedicated for research related to the SARS-CoV‑2 pandemic. The new resources, which were delivered this week, will also expand HLRS’s capacity to address future urgent computing needs.
The donation comes as part of the AMD COVID-19 High Performance Computing Fund, which was established in April 2020 to provide research institutions around the world with computing resources to accelerate medical research on COVID-19 and other diseases. HLRS is among the first European HPC centers to receive a donation under phase two of this program.
The new AMD nodes will be integrated into HLRS’s Vulcan cluster. Each of the donated servers contains one AMD EPYC™ processor and eight AMD Instinct™ accelerators, which are optimized for applications involving machine learning, deep learning, and artificial intelligence. The server systems, built by Penguin Computing, will offer 530 TFlops of 64-bit floating-point performance.
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Distributed Computing statt Mining: P3D rechnet weiter gegen SARS-CoV‑2 (COVID-19)
Da es beim Distributed Computing seit Jahren auch vermehrt um die Erforschung von Krankheiten geht und aktuell auch Grundlagenforschung zu SARS-CoV‑2 (COVID-19) betrieben wird, sehen wir beim Distributed Computing (Verteiltes Rechnen) Team von Planet 3DNow! dieses wesentlich sinnvoller, als zum Beispiel das Mining. Denn neben hohem Energieverbrauch dient dieses im Zuge des aktuellen Cryptowährungsbooms nur zur persönlichen Bereicherung und schafft für alle PC-Nutzer momentan gravierende Einschränkungen bei der Verfügbarkeit und den Preisen für Hardware. Nach der SiDock@Home-Challenge im Februar findet zusätzlich aktuell bei TN-Grid eine weitere Challenge statt. TN-Grid wird von Universität Trient gehostet und erhielt unter anderem auch Unterstützung von AMDs COVID-19 HPC Programm. (…) Weiterlesen »
Distributed Computing: P3D rechnet für Erforschung von SARS-CoV‑2 (COVID-19)
Nicht immer wird bei Distributed Computing nach Signalen von Außerirdischen gesucht wie beim mittlerweile eingestellten Projekt SETI@home, sondern vermehrt auch bei der Erforschung von Krankheiten geholfen. Im Rahmen einer kleinen Challenge, die bis zum 10.02. läuft, beteiligt sich das Team von Planet 3DNow! gerade am Projekt SiDock@home, welches das Virus SARS-CoV‑2 untersucht und so bei der Entwicklung von Medikamenten gegen COVID-19 beitragen will. (…) Weiterlesen »
AMD COVID-19 HPC Fund Adds 18 Institutions and Five Petaflops of Supercomputer Processing Power to Assist Researchers Fighting COVID-19 Pandemic
High performance AMD EPYC CPUs and Radeon Instinct GPUs to power COVID-19 focused research at Stanford School of Medicine, The University of Texas at Austin, UCLA, University of Toronto and other institutions across the U.S., Europe, and India
SANTA CLARA, Calif.
09/14/2020
AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced a second round of high-performance technology contributions to assist in the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. AMD is now contributing high-end computing systems or access to Penguin-On-Demand (POD) cloud-based clusters powered by 2nd Gen AMD EPYC™ and AMD Radeon Instinct™ processors to 21 institutions and research facilities conducting COVID-19 research. With 12 petaflops of total supercomputing capacity now awarded, the combined compute capacity donated through the AMD COVID-19 HPC Fund would rank among the fastest supercomputers in the world according to the most recent Top500 list. (…) Weiterlesen »