AMD charges back into the HPC fray with new systems
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AMD charges back into the HPC fray with new systems
AMD claims its new EPYC 7601 processor has a three-fold performance advantage over Intel’s best server processors.
After years of watching its presence shrink on the Top 500
supercomputer list, AMD is battling back with a new set of EPYC-based
server processors and specially-tuned GPUs for high-performance
computing (HPC) in a complete server system.
The company and its
partners announced new servers with the EPYC 7601 processor, which it
claims is three times more performance-efficient than Intel’s best Xeon
server processors, the Xeon Platinum 8180M1, as measured by SPECfp[i]
benchmark. The news came at the Supercomputing ’17 show taking place in Denver.
Target
workloads for AMD solutions include machine learning, weather modeling,
computational fluid dynamics, simulation and crash analysis in aviation
and automotive manufacturing, and oil and gas exploration, according to
the company.
OEMs offering AMD's EPYC systems
The company
has an impressive lineup of OEMs and system integrators offering EPYC
systems: Asus, BOXX, Gigabyte, HPE, Inventec, Penguin, Silicon
Mechanics, Supermicro, Synnex, and Tyan. Notably absent: Dell EMC and
Lenovo. However, Dell did make a positive statement of support for EPYC
when it was launched, so Dell may be working on something and it just
wasn’t ready to announce yet.
Also announced was ROCm
1.7., the latest version of the open-source GPU HPC development
platform. It now includes multi-GPU support for the latest Radeon GPU
hardware, as well as support for TensorFlow and Caffe in the MIOpen
libraries.
AMD partners are showing off or announcing systems at
SC17. ASUS, Gigabyte Technology, Penguin Computing, Supermicro and TYAN
all announced servers based on EPYC, while Inventec showed off its P47
system, which it launched in August. The P47 combines an EPYC CPU with
four Radeon Instinct MI25 GPUs, each delivering up to 12.3 TFLOPS of
single precision performance.
AMD AMAX [SMART]Rack P47 appliance
AMAX showed off the [SMART]Rack P47, an appliance featuring
20 P47 racks to provide up to a PetaFLOP of single precision compute
performance and more than 10 terabytes of DDR4 memory per rack. It
should be noted that a lot of HPC loads are double precision, which is
much slower than single precision.
The [SMART]Rack P47 also
features HPC-optimized [SMART]DC DCiM software for remotely monitoring,
managing, and orchestrating GPUs, especially in situations where
temperature, power and system health are particularly important to
operation.
AMD
has done a good job building support for EPYC. Now, it’s up to the
partners to sell it. As I said in a prior blog post, it takes a while
for these things to make their way into the market — at least a year.
That’s especially true with HPC, since it takes so long to qualify them.
But so far, so good.
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