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    How AMD Wants to Provide ‘Supercomputing for All’

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    Chris Preimesberger
    Published November 14, 2017
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      AMD would like to democratize supercomputing IT for use in all enterprise systems. Of course, something like that wouldn’t do it any harm business-wise.

      If one looks around at the huge systems installed at places such as CERN, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory and Sandia Labs, you would easily deduce this as a preposterous statement.

      However, something like this could, in fact, happen sooner than one might think. IT evolves faster all the time. For example, the smartphone in your pocket right now carries way more computing power than desktop PCs did only 20 years ago. Who’s to say your typical data center won’t become a supercomputing center in 20 years?

      At the SC17 supercomputing conference in Denver Nov. 13, AMD and some of its ecosystem partners announced the availability of a suite of new, high-performance systems powered by AMD EPYC CPUs (central processing units) and AMD Radeon Instinct GPUs (graphics processing units) to accelerate the use of supercomputing in smaller data centers.

      AMD combines this portfolio with new software, including the new ROCm 1.7 open platform with updated development tools and libraries, enabling complete AMD EPYC-based PetaFLOPS systems.

      Supports Various Environments

      By supporting both heterogeneous supercomputing systems and memory-bound, CPU-driven, high-performance platforms with EPYC, AMD claims it can address the needs of multiple workloads with up to a 3X advantage in performance per dollar for the EPYC 7601 versus Intel’s Xeon Platinum 8180M. These, of course, are estimates from AMD.

      Target workloads for these solutions include machine learning, weather modeling, computational fluid dynamics, simulation and crash analysis in aviation and automotive manufacturing, oil and gas exploration and others.

      It’s true that a lot more enterprises are now running workloads involving machine learning and analytics for retail projections, research and other types of business uses across clouds and multiple data centers. They may not be doing fluid dynamics or weather modeling, but the fact is that workloads are getting heavier and more complicated, so it follows that it won’t be long before supercomputing-type systems may be sought for them.

      AMD’s showoff system at SC17 is the Inventec P47 (named after a U.S. World War II fighter, by the way) that combines the performance of a single EPYC 7000 series CPU with four Radeon Instinct MI25 GPUs, each delivering up to 12.3 TFLOPS of single precision performance in a highly scalable platform. That’s a lot of horsepower, much like the fast and heavy flying P-47 had back in 1944.

      For large to hyperscale deployments, AMAX has developed the [SMART]Rack P47, an all-inclusive high-performance rackscale appliance featuring 20x P47 platforms to provide up to a PetaFLOPS of single precision compute performance and more than 10 terabytes of DDR4 memory per rack.

      The [SMART]Rack P47 also features HPC-optimized [SMART]DC DCiM software to remotely monitor, manage and orchestrate GPU-based deployments where real-time temperature, power and system health are particularly crucial to help ensure uninterrupted operation, as well as AMD’s ROCm software platform for the ultimate ease of implementation for deep learning, inference and training workloads.

      AMD said it is now taking pre-orders for both the P47 server and the fully-integrated [SMART]Rack P47, with delivery estimated in Q1 of 2018. Pricing is available on a consulting basis.

      ROCm Open Software Platform

      AMD EPYC and AMD Radeon Instinct performance is fully supported by the new ROCm 1.7 release. Expanding on the most versatile open source software platform for heterogeneous computing systems, ROCm 1.7 delivers math libraries and software development support using modern programming languages to unlock the power of GPU acceleration and other accelerators, such as FPGAs (field-programmable gate arrays).

      The ROCm 1.7 release includes multi-GPU support for the latest Radeon™ GPU hardware, as well as support for TensorFlow and Caffe in the MIOpen libraries.

      The foundation for heterogeneous computing strategies is in place through the new AMD technology solution set formed from EPYC, Radeon Instinct, and ROCm 1.7.

      AMD is demonstrating applications on these systems in booth #825 through Nov. 17 at SC17 in Denver.

      Chris Preimesberger
      Chris Preimesberger
      https://www.eweek.com/author/cpreimesberger/
      Chris J. Preimesberger is Editor Emeritus of eWEEK. In his 16 years and more than 5,000 articles at eWEEK, he distinguished himself in reporting and analysis of the business use of new-gen IT in a variety of sectors, including cloud computing, data center systems, storage, edge systems, security and others. In February 2017 and September 2018, Chris was named among the 250 most influential business journalists in the world (https://richtopia.com/inspirational-people/top-250-business-journalists/) by Richtopia, a UK research firm that used analytics to compile the ranking. He has won several national and regional awards for his work, including a 2011 Folio Award for a profile (https://www.eweek.com/cloud/marc-benioff-trend-seer-and-business-socialist/) of Salesforce founder/CEO Marc Benioff--the only time he has entered the competition. Previously, Chris was a founding editor of both IT Manager's Journal and DevX.com and was managing editor of Software Development magazine. He has been a stringer for the Associated Press since 1983 and resides in Silicon Valley.
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