Tuesday, May 11th 2021
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AMD EPYC 7003 Processors to Power Singapore's Fastest Supercomputer
AMD announced that AMD EPYC 7003 Series processors will be used to power a new supercomputer for the National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore, the national high-performance computing (HPC) resource center dedicated to supporting science and engineering computing needs.
The system will be based on the HPE Cray EX supercomputer and will use a combination of the EPYC 7763 and EPYC 75F3 processors. The supercomputer is planned to be fully operational by 2022 and is expected to have a peak theoretical performance of 10 petaFLOPS, 8x faster than NSCC's existing pool of HPC resources. Researchers will use the system to advance scientific research across biomedicine, genomics, diseases, climate, and more."AMD EPYC processors are the leading choice for the HPC research that makes an impact on the world, and that's why they have been chosen to power Singapore's most powerful supercomputer," said Ram Peddibhotla, corporate vice president, AMD EPYC product management. "We're excited to work with HPE and the National Supercomputing Centre Singapore to help unlock scientific discoveries across medicine, diseases, climate, engineering and more."
The system will be based on the HPE Cray EX supercomputer and will use a combination of the EPYC 7763 and EPYC 75F3 processors. The supercomputer is planned to be fully operational by 2022 and is expected to have a peak theoretical performance of 10 petaFLOPS, 8x faster than NSCC's existing pool of HPC resources. Researchers will use the system to advance scientific research across biomedicine, genomics, diseases, climate, and more."AMD EPYC processors are the leading choice for the HPC research that makes an impact on the world, and that's why they have been chosen to power Singapore's most powerful supercomputer," said Ram Peddibhotla, corporate vice president, AMD EPYC product management. "We're excited to work with HPE and the National Supercomputing Centre Singapore to help unlock scientific discoveries across medicine, diseases, climate, engineering and more."
8 Comments on AMD EPYC 7003 Processors to Power Singapore's Fastest Supercomputer
Basically: GPUs are good at some tasks, CPUs on others. Anyone building a supercomputer today tries to create a balance, so that your underlying customers benefit (be it weather-prediction, protein folding, virtual-weapons testing, or quantum computer emulation, etc. etc.). For some tasks, the GPU will be the core source of compute power. For others, the CPU is the source.
Linpack-FLOPs is the original FLOPs benchmark. But HPCG-FLOPs is arguably more realistic on a wider variety of workloads... and is a lesser known secondary benchmark. Still, its a good idea to keep the HPCG benchmark in mind... if only to remind ourselves about the huge differences different workloads have.