SANTA CLARA, Calif., – AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) showcased its ongoing high performance computing (HPC) capabilities at ISC High Performance 2024. For the third year in a row, the Frontier supercomputer housed at Oak Ridge National Lab – powered by AMD EPYC CPUs and AMD Instinct GPUs – remains the fastest supercomputer in the world with a High-Performance Linpack (HPL) […]
Financial Services Company Optiver Selects AMD for Data Center, AI
May 9, 2024 by Leave a Comment
SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 07, 2024 — Today, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announced that Optiver – a market maker trading on 100+ exchanges – is using AMD chips for its new data center infrastructure. Using AMD EPYC processors, AMD Solarflare Ethernet adapters, AMD Virtex FPGAs and AMD Alveo adaptable accelerators, Optiver is addressing technical challenges in capital markets […]
HPC News Bytes 20230918: New AMD CPUs and Intel FPGAs, Arm’s IPO and Strategic Pivot, AI for Science
September 18, 2023 by
A happy mid-September morning to you. Here’s a hop (4:54) through recent HPC news, including: AMD launches EPYC 8004 CPUs for energy- and space-constrained workloads; Intel announces FPGAs going into its Innovation 2023 event; Arm’s successful IPO and strategic pivot; a report on AI for science….
More ‘EPYC’ Options for HPC
April 21, 2022 by
[SPONSORED CONTENT] High performance computing (HPC) often sets trends for the data center. Driving innovation, adding new functionality, and enabling simulations to deliver more accuracy, finer details, and insights. Recently AMD released four new AMD EPYC™ 7003 Series processors with AMD 3D V-Cache™ technology. Socket compatible with existing EPYC 7003 processors, the AMD 3D V-Cache […]
AMD Announces 4.9x HPC and AI Jump from Instinct MI200 Multi-die GPU
November 8, 2021 by
Continuing its long and impressive march back to prominence in data center and HPC-AI chips, AMD this morning announced the new Instinct MI200 GPU series, labeled by the company as “the first exascale-class GPU accelerators.” The product line includes the Instinct MI250X HPC-AI accelerator, built on AMD CDNA 2 architecture and providing up to 4.9X […]
AMD to Showcase New EPYC and Instinct Data Center Chips at Nov. 8 Virtual Event
October 25, 2021 by
AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) will host its Accelerated Data Center premiere on Monday, Nov. 8 at 11 am ET, showcasing the company’s upcoming EPYC CPU processors and Instinct GPU accelerators. While AMD declined comment, it’s assumed the EPYC and Instinct technology to be shown will be processing technology that will drive the U.S.’s first exascale system, […]
‘Ice Lake’ Launch: Intel Impresses with 3rd Gen Xeon Chips
April 6, 2021 by
In its cage-match struggle with AMD for data center (and HPC) CPU market superiority, Intel responded this morning to its rival’s vaunted EPYC 7003 Series CPUs, announced two weeks ago, with its 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable data center chips, code named “Ice Lake.” And the early response from a small sampling of industry analysts […]
AMD Launches 7nm ‘Milan’ EPYC Chips, Ups Price/Performance Ante for HPC, Data Center CPUs
March 15, 2021 by
Striving to continue on its path back to HPC and data center processor market prominence, AMD this morning introduced a new series of EPYC “Milan” CPUs that industry analysts and customers say looks to be a price/performance juggernaut. The EPYC 7003 series (SKUs below), designed by AMD and fabricated using Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.’s 7-nanometer […]
HPC End User Survey: Intel Xeon Still Dominates but AMD EPYC Gaining
September 28, 2020 by
Industry analyst firm Intersect360 has released partial results from an HPC end-user survey identifying the top user-rated processors, servers and cloud vendors. The key finding, according firm CEO Addison Snell: the disconnect between the HPC users, who want integration of Nvidia GPUs with CPUs from Intel or AMD, over against HPC vendors developing their own integrated solutions.
AMD Powers Corona Cluster for HPC Analytics at Livermore
April 12, 2019 by
Lawrence Livermore National Lab has deployed a 170-node HPC cluster from Penguin Computing. Based on AMD EPYC processors and Radeon Instinct GPUs, the new Corona cluster will be used to support the NNSA Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) program in an unclassified site dedicated to partnerships with American industry. “Even as we do more of our computing on GPUs, many of our codes have serial aspects that need really good single core performance. That lines up well with AMD EPYC.”
