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Guru3D.com » News » AMD Awarded $32 Million for 'Extreme Scale' High-Performance Computing Research

AMD Awarded $32 Million for 'Extreme Scale' High-Performance Computing Research

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 11/17/2014 09:16 AM | source: | 2 comment(s)
AMD Awarded $32 Million for 'Extreme Scale' High-Performance Computing Research

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that for the third straight year it was awarded research grants for development of critical technologies needed for extreme-scale computing in conjunction with projects associated with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Extreme-Scale Computing Research and Development Program, known as "FastForward 2." 

The two DOE awards, totaling more than $32 million, will fund research focused on exascale applications for AMD Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) based on the open-standard Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA), as well as future memory systems to power a generation of exascale supercomputers capable of delivering 30-60 times more performance than today's fastest supercomputers.

FastForward 2 is a jointly-funded collaboration between DOE Office of Science and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) focused on initiating partnerships with multiple companies to accelerate the research and development of critical technologies needed to enable exascale computing. Specifically, the FastForward 2 research grants awarded to AMD are for:

  • Node Architecture: AMD will conduct research for an integrated exascale node architecture based on its HSA-enabled APUs. Particular areas of research include power efficiency, reliability, programmability, component and network interface integration, APU microarchitecture, advanced memory architectures and efficient data movement.
  • Memory Technology: AMD will collaborate with the DOE and others to help define a new standard for memory interfaces that meets the needs of future-generation memory devices, including non-volatile memory and processing-in-memory (PIM) architectures.

"We're honored to be selected once again by DOE to aid research efforts for exascale-computing," said Alan Lee, AMD's corporate vice president for Research and Advanced Development. "Our customers have long looked to AMD to develop innovative compute, graphics, and memory technologies and products that solve real-world problems. This research is focused on energy-efficient node architectures and memory systems to improve the capability of the world's fastest supercomputers."

The DOE strategic plan seeks to address the nation's most pressing scientific challenges by advancing simulation-based scientific discovery made possible by the world's highest performing exascale supercomputers. The technologies developed as part of this initiative could positively impact low-power embedded, cloud/datacenter and mid-range high-performance computing applications for diverse fields ranging from medical science to astrophysics and climate modeling. FastForward 2 investments will result in an increase in DOE's ability to leverage commercial developments for future systems.

AMD Opteron compute processors and AMD FirePro graphics processors are used today in many of the world's leading supercomputers.







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thatguy91
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#4960636 Posted on: 11/17/2014 09:36 AM
This is good news for AMD, and also consumers. Much of the stuff they'll research will likely to be scalable.

schmidtbag
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#4960858 Posted on: 11/17/2014 04:29 PM
For a company like AMD, $32 million can accomplish great things and I look forward to what they can do with this. For a company like intel they'd probably be like "thanks, I guess it doesn't hurt to restock on the $100 bill napkins".

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