AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced a goal to deliver a 30x increase in energy efficiency for AMD EPYC CPUs and AMD Instinct GPU accelerators used in artificial intelligence (AI) training and high performance computing (HPC) applications by 2025.1 Achieving this will will require AMD to increase the energy efficiency of a compute node at a rate that […]
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Argonne Picks AMD EPYC CPUs for Polaris
August 30, 2021 by
Santa Clara — Aug. 30, 2021 — AMD today announced that the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has chosen AMD EPYC processors to power the Polaris supercomputer (see earlier coverage), which will prepare researchers for the forthcoming exascale HPC system at Argonne called Aurora. Polaris will use 2nd Gen EPYC processors and then upgrade to 3rd Gen […]
Double-precision CPUs vs. Single-precision GPUs; HPL vs. HPL-AI HPC Benchmarks; Traditional vs. AI Supercomputers
July 20, 2021 by
If you’ve wondered why GPUs are faster than CPUs, in part it’s because GPUs are asked to do less – or, to be more precise, to be less precise. Next question: So if GPUs are faster than CPUs, why aren’t GPUs the mainstream, baseline processor used in HPC server clusters? Again, in part it gets […]
Spend Less on HPC/AI Storage (and more on CPU/GPU compute)
July 19, 2021 by
[SPONSORED POST] In this whitepaper courtesy of HPE, you’ll learn about the three approaches that can help you to feed your CPU- and GPU-accelerated compute nodes without I/O bottlenecks while creating efficiencies in Gartner’s Run category. As the market share leader in HPC servers, HPE saw the convergence of classic modeling and simulation with AI methods such as machine learning and deep learning coming and now offers you a new portfolio of parallel HPC/AI storage systems that are purpose engineered to address all of the previously mentioned challenges—in a cost-effective way.
At Virtual ISC 2021: AMD Talks EPYC 7nm CPUs, Instinct GPUs, in HPC
June 24, 2021 by
At virtual ISC 2021, we sat down with Brock Taylor, AMD’s global HPC solutions director, to talk about the HPC community’s response to AMD’s launch last March of its EPYC 7003 Series 7nm CPUs and to its Radeon Instinct GPUs – including the implementation of both in exascale-class supercomputers to be installed at U.S. national […]
Exascale Computing Project: RAJA Portability Suite Enables Performance Portable CPU and GPU HPC Codes
June 2, 2021 by
A growing number of HPC applications must deliver high performance on CPU and GPU hardware platforms. One software tool available now and showing tremendous promise for the exascale era is the open-source RAJA Portability Suite. RAJA is part of the Exascale Computing Project (ECP) NNSA software portfolio and is also supported by the ECP Programming Models and Runtimes area.
Rice Univ. Researchers Claim 15x AI Model Training Speed-up Using CPUs
April 23, 2021 by
Reports are circulating in AI circles that researchers from Rice University claim a breakthrough in AI model training acceleration – without using accelerators. Running AI software on commodity x86 CPUs, the Rice computer science team say neural networks can be trained 15x faster than platforms utilizing GPUs. If valid, the new approach would be a double boon for organizations implementing AI strategies: faster model training using less costly microprocessors.
Los Alamos National Lab 1st to Receive Nvidia ‘Grace’ Arm CPU-based Supercomputer
April 12, 2021 by
April 12, 2021 – Los Alamos National Laboratory will be the first United States customer to receive a supercomputer based on Nvidia’s new “Grace” Arm-based CPU, announced today, with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) as the system provider. Delivery is targeted for early 2023. The Grace CPU is an Arm-based processor built for data-intensive applications requiring […]
Nvidia Jumps into Data Center CPUs, Also Launches DPUs, GPUs and DGX Superpod for HPC and AI
April 12, 2021 by
Nvidia announced a slew of new products today on the first day of its annual GTC conference, including a first-time foray into data center CPU that has pushed Intel stock prices down and Nvidia shares up. Nvidia’s new “Grace” CPU, the company’s first CPU for the data center, is an Arm-based chip that the company […]
Advanced Clustering Technologies Announces ACTblade x3XX HPC Systems Based on 3rd Gen Intel Xeon CPUs
April 6, 2021 by
April 6, 2021 — Advanced Clustering Technologies today announced the ACTblade x3XX family of dense HPC systems, which are based on the new third generation of Intel Xeon Scalable Processors, code named Ice Lake. Ice Lake is a significant advancement over the previous generation, offering more cores, more clock, more memory and faster memory. And the new ACTblades offer […]
