AMD EPYC™ Processors Picked by Argonne National Laboratory to Prepare for Exascale Future
August 30 2021 - 8:00AM
AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announced that the U.S. Department of Energy’s
(DOE) Argonne National Laboratory (Argonne) has chosen AMD EPYC™
processors to power a new supercomputer, called Polaris, which will
prepare researchers for the forthcoming exascale supercomputer at
Argonne called Aurora. Polaris is built by Hewlett Packard
Enterprise (HPE), will use 2nd Gen EPYC processors and then upgrade
to 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors, and will allow scientists and
developers to test and optimize software codes and applications to
tackle a range of AI, engineering, and scientific projects.
“AMD EPYC server processors continue to be the leading choice
for modern HPC research, delivering the performance and
capabilities needed to help solve the complex problems that
pre-exascale and exascale computing will address,” said Forrest
Norrod, senior vice president and general manager, Datacenter and
Embedded Solutions Business Group, AMD. “We are extremely proud to
support Argonne National Laboratory and their critical research
into areas including low carbon technologies, medical research,
astronomy, solar power and more as we draw closer to the exascale
era.”
Polaris will use the AMD EPYC 7532 and EPYC 7543 processors, and
NVIDIA® A100 Tensor Core GPUs, to deliver approximately 44
petaflops of peak double precision performance, which is 4x faster
than Argonne’s current supercomputers.
Initially, Polaris will be used by research teams participating
in initiatives such as the DOE’s Exascale Computing Project and the
ALCF’s Early Science Program. User communities within the DOE’s
Exascale Computing Project will also use Polaris for optimizing
engineering tasks for Argonne’s forthcoming exascale supercomputer,
which includes scaling of combined CPU and GPU-enabled systems and
the integration of workflows combining modeling, simulation, AI and
other data-intensive components.
Polaris is scheduled to be delivered and installed in August
2021 and will go into use starting early 2022. The broader HPC
community will access the system in spring of 2022 to prepare
workloads for the next generation of DOE’s HPC resources.
Supporting Resources
- See demos, videos and more about the AMD EPYC 7003 series
processors
- Learn more about AMD High Performance Computing
- Read the HPE press release here
- Follow AMD on Twitter
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AMD Communications
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