News AMD Now Powers 101 of the Top 500 Supercomputers, a 38 Percent Increase

[Admin]

AMD now powers 101 of the supercomputers on the Top 500 list, a 38 YoY growth rate.

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[bit_user]

It's obvious that AMD hasn't had as much success with its Instinct lineup of accelerators as it has had on the CPU side of the house, but its move to chiplet-based Instinct MI200 GPUs could help it employ the same techniques it did with EPYC to begin to gain more traction.

Those don't really count as chiplet-based, IMO. They act like 2 distinct GPUs and basically just happen to share a package.

I think Intel actually won the race to build the first chiplet-based datacenter GPU, and they did it in quite an extreme fashion. Their Datacenter Max series GPUs has up to 39 compute tiles + 8 HBM stacks. We've never seen anything remotely like it.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-fires-up-xeon-max-cpus-gpus-to-rival-amd-nvidia

I'm not saying it's necessarily better, but it's hard not to respect their audacity and the accomplishment of getting such a complex product out the door (eventually).

 

[rluker5]

I don't know if the Frontier should count as an exascale supercomputer if it isn't really functional: World's Fastest Supercomputer Can't Run a Day Without Failure | Tom's Hardware (tomshardware.com)
But Epyc is the best cpu package right now for total CPU ops.

 

[prtskg]

I don't know if the Frontier should count as an exascale supercomputer if it isn't really functional: World's Fastest Supercomputer Can't Run a Day Without Failure | Tom's Hardware (tomshardware.com)
But Epyc is the best cpu package right now for total CPU ops.

It isn't functional 24*7 at 100% is expected as it has millions of parts. At such scale some hardware and software problems are normal every day. Things like these keep us engineers in employment.🙂

 

[bit_user]

I don't know if the Frontier should count as an exascale supercomputer if it isn't really functional: World's Fastest Supercomputer Can't Run a Day Without Failure | Tom's Hardware (tomshardware.com)

The quote:

“We are working through issues in hardware and making sure that we understand (what they are),”​

Suggests to me that many of the issues are probably solvable.

 

[bit_user]

I got rid of windows a long time ago. And not impressed with the lifespan of Intel either. My AMD rig from 15 years ago, still runs well, when I boot it up on new Linux distros.

I've never had an Intel CPU fail on me. Nor AMD, but I've run a lot more Intel CPUs than AMD.

I've also never had an Intel SSD fail, though I've stayed away from the cheap stuff.

 

[Wisecracker]

. . . . "but its move to multi-chip Instinct MI200 GPUs could help it employ the same techniques it did with EPYC to begin to gain more traction.

Notably, AMD's MI250X accelerators power the world's fastest supercomputer, Frontier, and also rank high on the Green 500, which is the list that comprises the 500 most efficient supercomputers in the world. AMD's CPUs also now power seven of the top ten most efficient systems, nearly doubling the four systems the company powered on the June list.

Intel's CPUs still dominate the list with a higher total number of systems than AMD. Still, AMD's penetration into the upper ranks, and its share of the new systems, highlights that its CPUs have a performance advantage, giving it a clear pathway for expansion over the next several years."

Good for AMD
Most efficient . . . as compared to a 100000 Gigga-Watt coal plant ??
( . . . just kidding ___ they do suck-down some power, though . . . )

 

[bit_user]

Intel have far more failures and higher failure rates ever since they increased their thermals to radiator levels. But because they are upgraded like phones, most people never meet end of life. I have Intels and AMDs from 10+ years ago, as collectors Items that I fire up from time to time. Intels fail over time, more often than AMD from my experience. My oldes AMD is a K6 and it still works with older operating systems and my AMD athlon 64 X2 is running with Modern Linux, My MMX intel chip failed long ago along with the Prescott and the Dual core Pentiums.

You can't comment on short life of products as you upgrade too quickly, too often.

I don't upgrade quickly or often. I ran a Pentium 4 from 2005 to 2013. Since then, I had Sandybridge. I picked up another sandybridge in about 2015. My fileserver is AMD Phenom II. I have another box that's a haswell, and then I have a Skylake laptop.

At my job, we have lots of Intel desktop & server machines. Exclusively Intel. Thousands of Intel servers & desktop machines in the field, and I never hear of CPU failures. Maybe they happen, but it's rare enough that I've never heard about it.

 

[Gam3r01]

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