Compute
Cache Is King
The gap between the performance of processors, broadly defined, and the performance of DRAM main memory, also broadly defined, has been an issue for at least three decades when the gap really started to open up. …
AMD
HPC
HPC In 2020: Acquisitions And Mergers As The New Normal
After a decade of vendor consolidation that saw some of the world’s biggest IT firms acquire first-class HPC providers such as SGI, Cray, and Sun Microsystems, as well as smaller players like Penguin Computing, WhamCloud, Appro, and Isilon, it is natural to wonder who is next. …
HPC
HPC In 2020: Compute Engine Diversity Gets Real
The choice of processors available for high performance computing has been on growing for a number of years. …
HPC
The Supercomputing Efficiency Curve Bends In The Right Direction
Things get a little wonky at exascale and hyperscale. Things that don’t matter quite as much at enterprise scale, such as the cost or the performance per watt or the performance per dollar per watt for a system or a cluster, end up dominating the buying decisions. …
Compute
Talking System Architecture With AMD CTO Mark Papermaster
It is funny to think that in a certain light, AMD has Big Blue to thank for its resurgence in the datacenter. …
HPC
Doing The Math On Future Exascale Supercomputers
We are not shy of playing guessing games here at The Next Platform, as you all well know. …
Compute
AMD’s Datacenter Business Breaks Through $1 Billion Run Rate
At some point, when the Epyc server CPU and Radeon Instinct GPU accelerator businesses are more substantial, AMD will probably be a lot less opaque about how its datacenter business is doing. …
HPC
AMD CPUs Will Power UK’s Next-Generation ARCHER2 Supercomputer
AMD has picked up yet another big supercomputer win with the selection of its second-generation Epyc processors, aka Rome, as the compute engine for the ARCHER2 system to be installed at the University of Edinburgh next year. …
Compute
AMD Rome Epyc Processor Shatters Numeric Benchmarks
Good news is continuing to gather around AMD’s second-generation “Rome” Epyc processors. …
Compute
AMD Revs Up HPC Variant As Rome Chips Ramp
AMD is definitely on a roll in the United States for pre-exascale and future exascale systems, having won the deals at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab with the “Perlmutter” system, at Oak Ridge National laboratory with the “Frontier” system, and as the presumed front runner at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory with the “El Capitan” system. …