AMD Epyc will be in the Perlmutter supercomputer

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

It looks like the Department of Energy NERSC-9 system will use AMD Epyc:

https://www.hpcwire.com/2018/10/30/cray-unveils-shasta-lands-nersc-9-contract/

In tandem with Cray’s Shasta disclosures, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is announcing that NERSC, the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, has chosen a Cray Shasta supercomputer for its NERSC-9 system, slated for delivery in late 2020. Named “Perlmutter” (after Nobel Prize winning astrophysicist Saul Perlmutter), the system will feature AMD Epyc processors and Nvidia GPUs offering a combined peak performance of ~100 petaflops and a sustained application performance equivalent to about 3X that of the Cray Cori (NERSC-8) supercomputer. The new contract, which includes a Cray Clusterstor storage system, is worth a reported $146 million, one of the largest in Cray’s history. (We’ll be reporting additional details of the NERSC-9 system soon.)

Another vote of confidence came from Dr. Sudip Dosanjh, director of the NERSC Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where a Shasta system with a mix of AMD Epyc CPUs and Nvidia GPUs will be supporting a diverse set of HPC workloads.

It’s been a few years and a few technology generations since we’ve seen AMD+Nvidia together in a leadership-class system, but Cray notes that there was no technical challenge or special work required to use AMD CPUs with Nvidia GPUs. “Both are designed well to work with other components, and Cray’s programming environment is well suited for targeting them,” a company spokesperson told us.

It looks like the system will have similar peak performance to the Chinese Tianhe 2A supercomputer which is at number 4 on the TOP500 list:

https://www.top500.org/lists/2018/06/

 

[Glanza]

AMD right now:

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

It looks like AMD might be winning the next US supercomputer contract too:

https://mobile.twitter.com/witeken/status/1057429817367379968

I have been tipped that AMD might have gotten an exascale design win (coral 2).

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/...-supercomputer-featuring-crays-shasta-system/

"The next big procurement after the NERSC-9 system is currently ongoing," Scott said. "It's CORAL 2, and they are planning on placing exascale systems in the 2021-22 timeframe at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. That procurement is ongoing so people have submitted bids and they have not yet announced winners for that system yet."

 

[doodah]

It seems that we discover a new layer of Intel been caught with their pants down every few months. Complete dominance to headless chickens.

 

[Pleiades]

Ahhh AMD & nVidia, best buddies after all

 

[LePhuronn]

It would make me chuckle if by the end of 2020 when delivery of this beast is due AMD also have a massive compute card and Nvidia gets binned off this project.