HPC
“El Capitan” Supercomputer Blazes The Trail for Converged CPU-GPU Compute
Every couple of years, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory gets to install the world’s fastest supercomputer. …
El Capitan
HPC
The Stepping Stones In America To Exascale And Beyond
To a certain extent, all of the major HPC centers in the world live in the future. …
Compute
AMD’s Long And Winding Road To The Hybrid CPU-GPU Instinct MI300A
Back in 2012, when AMD was in the process of backing out of the datacenter CPU business and did not really have its datacenter GPU act together at all, the US Department of Energy exhibited the enlightened self-interest that is a strong foundation of both economics and politics and took a chance and invested in AMD to do research in memory technologies and hybrid CPU-GPU computing at exascale. …
AI
Lining Up The “El Capitan” Supercomputer Against The AI Upstarts
The question is no longer whether or not the “El Capitan” supercomputer that has been in the process of being installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for the past week – with photographic evidence to prove it – will be the most powerful system in the world. …
Compute
The Third Time Charm Of AMD’s Instinct GPU
The great thing about the Cambrian explosion in compute that has been forced by the end of Dennard scaling of clock frequencies and Moore’s Law lowering in the cost of transistors is not only that we are getting an increasing diversity of highly tuned compute engines and broadening SKU stacks across those engines, but also that we are getting many different interpretations of the CPU, GPU, DPU, and FPGA themes. …
HPC
Talking Novel Architectures And El Capitan With Lawrence Livermore
The HPC gurus of the world may have started moving into the hyperscalers and cloud builders in recent years, but they don’t tend to work for vendors and they tend to stay in one place and lean in. …
AI
AI Hype Will Drive Datacenter GPU Prices Sky High
UPDATED Like many HPC and AI system builders, we are impatient to see what the “Antares” Instinct MI300A hybrid CPU-GPU system on chip from AMD might look like in terms of performance and price. …
Compute
AMD Teases Details On Future MI300 Hybrid Compute Engines
We were under the distinct impression that AMD was not going to talk much about its datacenter compute engines at the Consumer Electronics Show, having just launched its “Genoa” Epyc 9004 server CPUs in November with much fanfare. …
HPC
Lawrence Livermore’s “El Capitan” To Take AMD’s Instinct APU Mainstream
In March 2020, when Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory announced the exascale “El Capitan” supercomputer contract had been awarded to system builder Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which was also kicking in its “Rosetta” Slingshot 11 interconnect and which was tapping future CPU and GPU compute engines from AMD, the HPC center was very clear that it would be using off-the-shelf, commodity parts from AMD, not custom compute engines. …
HPC
A Status Check on Global Exascale Ambitions
As we head toward the annual Supercomputing Conference season we wanted to take a moment for a level-set on exascale. …