Compute
AMD Cranks The Rome Clocks, Keeping The Heat On Intel
One size definitely does not fit all workloads and one budget when it comes to server processors. …
Epyc
Compute
The Metronomic Cadence Of Chippery From AMD
Companies invest in platforms over a decade or more, and that is why architectures persist longer than we might think given technological differences and economic forces. …
Compute
AMD Is Determined To Get Its Rightful Datacenter Share
There is an equally virtuous and vicious cycle that propels all computing: Innovation requires competition to propel it, and competition requires innovation to meet it; repeat or fade. …
HPC
Lawrence Livermore To Surpass 2 Exaflops With AMD Compute
As the steward of the nuclear weapon arsenal for the United States government, it is probably not an overstatement to say that Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, one of the main supercomputer and scientific research facilities operated by the Department of Energy, is keenly interested in bang for the buck. …
HPC
Weathering Heights: Of Resolutions And Ensembles
In the past year or so, watching supercomputer maker Cray, which is now part of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, has been a bit like playing a country and western song backwards on the record player. …
Compute
AMD Takes A Bigger Bite Out Of The Datacenter
It is hard to take on either Intel or Nvidia in their respectively dominant CPU and GPU markets, and credit is due to AMD for taking on both companies at the same time to try to carve itself a larger slice of the datacenter pie. …
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. …