Schlagwort: Supercomputer
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 »
AMD EPYC™ Processors Picked by Argonne National Laboratory to Prepare for Exascale Future
- The new Polaris supercomputer will optimize AI, engineering, and scientific projects for forthcoming exascale supercomputer at Argonne National Laboratory -
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 30, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announced that the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory (Argonne) has chosen AMD EPYC™ processors to power a new supercomputer, called Polaris, which will prepare researchers for the forthcoming exascale supercomputer at Argonne called Aurora. Polaris is built by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), will use 2nd Gen EPYC processors and then upgrade to 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors, and will allow scientists and developers to test and optimize software codes and applications to tackle a range of AI, engineering, and scientific projects. (…) Weiterlesen »
Berkeley Lab Deploys Next-Gen Supercomputer, Perlmutter, Bolstering U.S. Scientific Research
New Heterogeneous System Will Support Research in Advanced Computing, AI, Data Science & More
MAY 27, 2021 — The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) today formally unveiled the first phase of its next-generation supercomputer, Perlmutter. The new system, named in honor of the Lab’s Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist Saul Perlmutter, will greatly increase the high performance computing (HPC) capability for a broad spectrum of unclassified scientific research within the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science.
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AMD EPYC™ Processors to Power New System for National Supercomputing Centre Singapore
—Singapore’s most powerful supercomputer to feature AMD EPYC™ 7003 Series processors—
SANTA CLARA, Calif. 05/11/2021
AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announced that AMD EPYC™ 7003 Series processors will be used to power a new supercomputer for the National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore, the national high-performance computing (HPC) resource center dedicated to supporting science and engineering computing needs.
The system will be based on the HPE Cray EX supercomputer and will use a combination of the EPYC 7763 and EPYC 75F3 processors. The supercomputer is planned to be fully operational by 2022 and is expected to have a peak theoretical performance of 10 petaFLOPS, 8x faster than NSCC’s existing pool of HPC resources. Researchers will use the system to advance scientific research across biomedicine, genomics, diseases, climate, and more. (…) Weiterlesen »
Atos’s supercomputer to pave the way for Bulgaria’s leading position in high-tech
This will be the most powerful supercomputer in Eastern Europe and is expected to be operational in July 2021
Paris (France), Prague (Czech Republic), Sofia (Bulgaria) 11 May 2021
Atos today announces that Bulgaria’s new EuroHPC supercomputer, which is based on Atos’ powerful BullSequana XH2000 architecture, is now fully delivered and assembled at Sofia Tech Park in Bulgaria. Atos was selected to build Bulgaria’s petascale supercomputer by the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU), the hosting entity, and the consortium “Petascale Supercomputer Bulgaria” (PetaSC-Bulgaria) whose leading partner is Sofia Tech Park.
This will be the most powerful supercomputer in Eastern Europe and will help to leverage Bulgaria’s high-tech ambitions. Atos’ Czech Republic project teams have already started the configuration tests and the supercomputer is expected to start working operationally in July 2021. (…) Weiterlesen »
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Selected to Build New Supercomputer for the National Supercomputing Centre Singapore to Support Scientific Research
National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore advances R&D across biomedicine, genomics, diseases, climate and more with an 8X faster system powered by the HPE Cray EX supercomputer
April 27, 2021 10:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time
HOUSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced it has been awarded $40M SGD to build a new supercomputer for the National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore, the national high-performance computing (HPC) resource center dedicated to supporting science and engineering computing needs for academic, research and industry communities. The new system, which will be 8X faster compared to NSCC’s existing pool of HPC resources, will expand and augment ongoing research efforts by enabling tools such as artificial intelligence (AI) and deep machine learning to optimize modeling, simulation and even software simulation for quantum computing. NSCC will use the system to unlock scientific discoveries across medicine, diseases, climate, engineering and more. (…) Weiterlesen »
Fujitsu and RIKEN Complete Joint Development of Japan’s Fugaku, the World’s Fastest Supercomputer
Beginning of shared use offers researchers globally access to top-class computing resources RIKEN, The Research Organization for Information Science and Technology, Fujitsu Limited Tokyo, March 09, 2021 RIKEN, the Research Organization for Information Science and Technology (RIST), and Fujitsu today announced the completion and beginning of shared use of supercomputer Fugaku, which has been jointly (…) Weiterlesen »
Schwedischer Supercomputer “Dardel” mit 13,5 Petaflops und AMD CPUs und GPUs
Bereits Ende letzter Woche hat HPE in einer Pressemitteilung angekündigt, dass man für die Königliche Technische Hochschule in Stockholm einen Supercomputer mit dem Namen “Dardel” bauen wird, der sowohl auf AMD Epyc Prozessoren, als auch AMD Radeon Instinct Grafikkarten der nächsten Generation setzen wird. Dardel soll eine Peakperformance von 13,5 Petaflops erreichen, was aktuell einen Platz unter den ersten 50 in der TOP500-Liste der Supercomputer garantieren würde. Der Supercomputer wird allerdings in zwei Phasen ausgebaut und soll dann im Januar 2022 seine volle Ausbaustufe erreichen. (…) Weiterlesen »
Sweden’s KTH Royal Institute of Technology selects Hewlett Packard Enterprise to build new supercomputer to advance academic and industrial research
Sweden’s largest technical university advances R&D across life sciences, automotive, transportation and energy industries with next-generation system, powered by the HPE Cray EX supercomputer
San Jose, Calif. – February 26, 2021 – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced that it is building a new supercomputer for KTH Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, one of Sweden’s largest technical universities dedicated to science and engineering research. The new supercomputer, which is funded by Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC), will enable a significant level of computational performance, powered by the HPE Cray EX supercomputer, to improve modeling and simulation from complex data to make breakthroughs in academia and for a range of industrial areas, including drug design, renewable energy, and advanced automotive and fleet vehicles. (…) Weiterlesen »
Neue AMD-Supercomputer in den Niederlanden und an der Universität von Durham
In dieser Woche gibt es wieder zwei neue Supercomputer auf Basis von AMD-Prozessoren zu vermelden. Zum einem soll in den Niederlanden der neue nationale Supercomputer von Lenovo bis Mitte des Jahres installiert werden und zum anderen wird die im Norden von England gelegene Universität von Durham den Supercomputer COSMA 8 ebenfalls bis Ende 2021 deutlich ausbauen. Beide setzen dabei hauptsächlich auf AMD Epyc 7H12 Prozessoren der zweiten Generation Epyc (“Rome”), allerdings sollen im noch namenlosen niederländischen System wohl auch Epyc Prozessoren der dritten Generation (“Milan”) zum Einsatz kommen. (…) Weiterlesen »
Lenovo to Power SURF Dutch National Supercomputer
AMSTERDAM, Feb. 8, 2021 — Lenovo Data Center Group (DCG) announced it will deliver high-performance computer (HPC) infrastructure for SURF, the ICT cooperative for education and research in the Netherlands. The €20 million project, which begins in early 2021, will result in the creation of the largest and most powerful supercomputer in the country.
Supporting scientists from over 100 education and research institutions throughout the Netherlands, the supercomputer will power highly complex calculations in life-enhancing work across all fields of science including meteorology, astrophysics, medical and social sciences, and materials and earth sciences, such as climate change research.
Explaining the significance of this collaboration, and the benefits to be passed on to research projects, Walter Lioen, Research Services Manager at SURF, said: “The need of researchers for computing power, data storage and processing is growing exponentially. In the design of the new supercomputer, the usability for scientific research was paramount. SURF has chosen Lenovo because of its quality, performance and future flexibility, as well as its considerations for sustainability.” (…) Weiterlesen »
TOP500 Expands Exaflops Capacity Amidst Low Turnover
FRANKFURT, Germany; BERKELEY, Calif.; and KNOXVILLE, Tenn.—The 56th edition of the TOP500 saw the Japanese Fugaku supercomputer solidify its number one status in a list that reflects a flattening performance growth curve. Although two new systems managed to make it into the top 10, the full list recorded the smallest number of new entries since the project began in 1993.
The entry level to the list moved up to 1.32 petaflops on the High Performance Linpack (HPL) benchmark, a small increase from 1.23 petaflops recorded in the June 2020 rankings. In a similar vein, the aggregate performance of all 500 systems grew from 2.22 exaflops in June to just 2.43 exaflops on the latest list. Likewise, average concurrency per system barely increased at all, growing from 145,363 cores six months ago to 145,465 cores in the current list. (…) Weiterlesen »
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University Deploys AMD EPYC™ Processors with Over 2 Petaflops of Computing Power Dedicated to Scientific Research
AMD EPYC™ Processors provide superior cost-performance and high core density —
TOKYO, Oct. 01, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Today, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) and Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) , announced the deployment of AMD EPYC™ 7702 processors for use in a new, high performance computing system. The EPYC processor-based supercomputer will deliver the 2.36 petaflops of computing power OIST plans to use for scientific research at the University. (…) 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 »
GIGABYTE Technology, Northern Data AG and AMD Join Forces to Drive HPC Mega-Project
Taipei, Taiwan, September 9th 2020 – GIGABYTE Technology, (TWSE: 2376), an industry leader in high-performance servers and workstations, today is announcing a partnership with Northern Data AG (XETRA: NB2, ISIN: DE000A0SMU87) to create a HPC mega-project with computing power of around 3.1 exaflops.
GIGABYTE will supply GPU-based server systems equipped with proven AMD EPYC™ processors and AMD Radeon Instinct™ accelerators from technology partner AMD, a leading provider of high performance computing and graphics technologies, to Northern Data.
Northern Data develops a distributed computing cluster based on the hardware at locations in Norway, Sweden and Canada, which in its final stage of deployment will provide FP32 computing power of around 3.1 exaflops (3.1 million teraflops and 274.54 petaflops FP64). The world’s fastest supercomputer, the Japanese “Fukagu” (Fujitsu), has a calculation power of 1.07 exaflops FP32 and 415.3 petaflops FP64, whereas the second fastest, the US supercomputer “Summit” (IBM) has a calculation power of 0.414 exaflops FP32 and 148.0 petaflops FP64. (…) Weiterlesen »