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AMD-powered Frontier supercomputer is now the world's fastest
The Frontier supercomputer, which is powered by AMD EPYC CPUs, has been named the world's most powerful supercomputer.
The supercomputer is housed in the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, USA. Frontier's performance, which is rated at 1,102 exaflops, is more than double that of the previous record holder, Fugaku. It is the first machine to officially break the exascale barrier with such performance. In a press release, Forrest Norrod, senior vice president and general manager of AMD's Data Center Solutions Group, stated:
“We are excited that AMD EPYC processors and AMD Instinct accelerators will power the fastest, most energy-efficient supercomputer and the world's first supercomputer to break the exascale barrier.
Innovating and bringing more performance and efficiency to supercomputers is essential to tackle the world's most complex challenges. AMD EPYC processors and AMD Instinct accelerators continue to advance high-performance computing, delivering the performance needed to advance scientific discovery."
The supercomputer is not only the fastest, but also the most energy efficient, with 62.68 gigaflops/watt of energy efficiency in a single chassis of 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors with AMD Instinct MI250x accelerators. HPE Slingshot-11 interconnect technology powers the network, which is specifically designed to speed high-performance computing (HPC) workloads. Frontier's next move is to continue testing the system through the end of 2022. The supercomputer will be available to a limited group of researchers until the end of the year before being public in 2023.
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#6022055 Posted on: 06/01/2022 02:58 PM
Computers like this tend to be a bit harder to appreciate, because they're typically just a matter of how much money you can keep throwing at the problem, and, whether the power grid can keep up. It is, however, impressive to be more than double the speed of #2. I'm guessing a lot of this is because of being x86, whereas Fugaku was ARM.
Fun fact - Frontier appears to have about 600K CPU cores, whereas Fugaku has a whopping 7.6 million.
Coming in your mobile phone and /or period equivalent in 40 to 100 years :p
Computers like this tend to be a bit harder to appreciate, because they're typically just a matter of how much money you can keep throwing at the problem, and, whether the power grid can keep up. It is, however, impressive to be more than double the speed of #2. I'm guessing a lot of this is because of being x86, whereas Fugaku was ARM.
Fun fact - Frontier appears to have about 600K CPU cores, whereas Fugaku has a whopping 7.6 million.
Coming in your mobile phone and /or period equivalent in 40 to 100 years :p
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#6022096 Posted on: 06/01/2022 05:35 PM
i was just watching a classic Star Trek the other day and realized my cellphone is more powerful than a tricorder or a supercomputer at the time.
Coming in your mobile phone and /or period equivalent in 40 to 100 years :p
i was just watching a classic Star Trek the other day and realized my cellphone is more powerful than a tricorder or a supercomputer at the time.
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#6022112 Posted on: 06/01/2022 06:24 PM
i was just watching a classic Star Trek the other day and realized my cellphone is more powerful than a tricorder or a supercomputer at the time.
Out mobile phones are faster than any supper computer from the 80's witch is rather insane to think about it. That said I do not think processing power progressing as fast as it was from 80's all the way to 2000 and a bit farther .... But if quantum CPUs or grafin chips etc have a breakthrough... We are in for a huge jump ! That said a breakthrough might never come and things slow to a crawl ...we will see :p
i was just watching a classic Star Trek the other day and realized my cellphone is more powerful than a tricorder or a supercomputer at the time.
Out mobile phones are faster than any supper computer from the 80's witch is rather insane to think about it. That said I do not think processing power progressing as fast as it was from 80's all the way to 2000 and a bit farther .... But if quantum CPUs or grafin chips etc have a breakthrough... We are in for a huge jump ! That said a breakthrough might never come and things slow to a crawl ...we will see :p
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#6022301 Posted on: 06/02/2022 01:44 PM
@tunejunky
vs tech around in the real world, sure.
compared to tech in the series? no
@tunejunky
vs tech around in the real world, sure.
compared to tech in the series? no
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Computers like this tend to be a bit harder to appreciate, because they're typically just a matter of how much money you can keep throwing at the problem, and, whether the power grid can keep up. It is, however, impressive to be more than double the speed of #2. I'm guessing a lot of this is because of being x86, whereas Fugaku was ARM.
Fun fact - Frontier appears to have about 600K CPU cores, whereas Fugaku has a whopping 7.6 million.