HPC
Eni Chooses Utility Pricing For New HPC4+ Supercomputer
Here are two things you don’t see every day in the realm of scientific and technical high performance computing. …
Rome
Compute
The Battle For Enterprise Compute Begins In The Cloud
If the hyperscalers are a crystal ball in which we see the far-off future of compute, storage, and networking writ large and ahead of the mainstream, then the public cloud builders are a mirror in which we see the more immediate needs and desires of enterprises. …
Compute
Lenovo Goes Double Barrel With AMD “Rome” Epycs
Kamran Amini was an executive at IBM in the mid-2000s when the company first put AMD’s then-relatively new Opteron processors into some of its System x servers. …
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. …
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 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. …
Compute
A Deep Dive Into AMD’s Rome Epyc Architecture
In any chip design, the devil – and the angel – is always in the details. …
Compute
AMD Doubles Down – And Up – With Rome Epyc Server Chips
It has been a long time coming: The day when AMD can put a processor up against any Xeon that Intel can deliver and absolutely compete on technology, price, predictability of availability, and consistency of roadmap looking ahead. …
Compute
Rome Is The Fulcrum Of AMD’s Datacenter Pivot
The good news about having a diverse product line, as chip maker AMD increasingly does, is that the company operates like a multi-cylinder engine and that not all of the lines need to be firing full bore for the business to accelerate down its roadmap. …
HPC
AMD Garners Academic Credentials With New Supercomputer Wins
AMD’s second-generation Epyc processor, code-named “Rome,” has yet to be released into the wild, but it is already racking up some impressive wins in academic supercomputing. …