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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