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 »