AMD Showcases HPC growth at SC21
As part of SC21, AMD is showcasing its momentum in the high performance computing industry, with the growing adoption of AMD EPYC processors and AMD Instinct accelerators.
Major milestones and top highlights include:
- Top500 list Highlights:
- AMD powers 73 systems in the November 2021 list, a more than 3x YoY growth
- AMD powers four of the top 10 systems, 2x more than any other CPU vendor
- AMD powers the fastest system in EMEA
- After launching eight months ago, 3rd Gen EPYC makes up 17 of the 73 EPYC powered supercomputers.
- Some of the latest HPC systems taking advantage of AMD products include:
- “Frontier” supercomputer – powered by optimized 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors and AMD Instinct MI250x accelerators at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
- “Adastra” HPE supercomputer – featuring two partitions powered by AMD. The first partition is based on next-generation AMD EPYC processors codenamed “Genoa” and the second is based on optimized 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors and AMD Instinct MI250x accelerators.
- “Polaris” testbed supercomputer – enabling scientists and developers at Argonne National Laboratory to tackle a range of AI, engineering and scientific projects
- At the Accelerated Data Center Premiere virtual event last week, AMD announced some of its latest innovations, including:
- Launch of the world’s fastest accelerator for HPC and AI , the AMD Instinct MI200 series accelerator built on AMD CDNA 2 architecture.
- Unveiling of the 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processor with AMD 3D V-Cache, the first server CPU using high-performance 3D die stacking, which offers enhanced performance for the technical computing workloads prevalent in HPC.
AMD Processors Accelerating Performance of Top Supercomputers Worldwide
