HPC
Energy Giant Eni Boosts Its HPC Oomph By An Order Of Magnitude
The big oil and gas companies of the world were among the earliest and most enthusiastic users of advanced machinery to do HPC simulation and modeling. …
MI250X
HPC
Early Frontier Supercomputer Tests Show Decent Performance Leaps
It is the nature of capability class supercomputers to try to push the envelope on as many different architectural fronts as possible. …
AI
Stacking Up AMD MI200 Versus Nvidia A100 Compute Engines
The modern GPU compute engine is a microcosm of the high performance computing datacenter at large. …
Compute
The AMD “Aldebaran” GPU That Won Exascale
If you want to know how and why AMD motors have been chosen for so many of the pre-exascale and exascale HPC and AI systems, despite the dominance of Intel in CPUs and the dominance of Nvidia in GPUs, you need look no further for an answer than the new “Aldebaran” Instinct MI200 GPU accelerator from AMD and its Infinity Fabric 3.0 coherent interconnect that is being also added to selected Epyc CPUs. …