US DOE supercomputers wins for AMD, Intel, nothing new for nvidia.

[pas008]

1 hour ago, leadeater said:

Because DoE is making a big push in to Open Source systems and software and AMD is more conducive to that.

 

On the technology front AMD has the lead there too, higher CPU rack density and PCIe lanes per CPU. Then also AMD is a major player in the up coming accelerator card interconnect standards like CCIX where Intel has basically no part in those (Nvidia too), pursuing their own.

 

Cray is the perfect partner because they are very experienced in interconnect technologies so you have pretty much the all star team to pull of something good using all new technology with high chance of success. Without someone like Cray AMD would not be in the preferred candidate position, even with the better technology.

nice point

this could actually push a lot forward for amd

[porina]

9 hours ago, leadeater said:

I find it rather interesting there has been a contract commitment for a GPU we know so little about. That's some rather strong confidence in a product that as far as I know is at early generation engineering samples at best, though I admit I know next to nothing about Xe other than it's going to be a thing.

Another little piece of info...

https://www.anandtech.com/show/14311/intel-process-technology-update-10nm-server-products-in-1h-2020-accelerated-7nm-in-2021

 

 

 

[Stefan Payne]

On 5/7/2019 at 10:15 PM, Jack_of_all_Trades said:

Does AMD have a new architecture or are they building the supercomputer on gcn ? Sounds more like a supernova than a supercomputer if thats the case. 

It actually might be a custom NAVI Version with HBM that is made exclusively for them.

If they pay enough, AMD would do whatever they want, if they have the technology.

 

Its said to be built in 2021, so they still have a whole year to make the chip they want.

Intel Xe is also not yet available either.

What is really interesting is that its an AMD System with AMD GPU -> IF, CCIX or so??

And the Intel/Intel System. Intel also announced a proprietary Interconnect they will use (forgot the name)...

 

 

That shows the main Problem, that nVidia doesn't have X86 CPUs or access to x86 CPus.

 

[Results45]

On 5/7/2019 at 6:30 AM, GabeThePCHelper said:

But can it run minesweeper? Or Minecraft?

 

Argonne Nat. Laboratory replies, "Definitely. Crysis and beyond!"

 

9 hours ago, mr moose said:

Lisa Su is a formidable player in the whole selling game,  she worked very hard to secure both Xbox and PS hardware contracts, I have no doubt she offered very compelling hardware specs and probably the ability to customize the hardware during the design process.  It also would surprise me if the icing on the cake was a few dollars saved too.

A good podcast on how AMD went from survival to being a real threat to Intel & Nvidia:

 

 

Enjoy! 

[Results45]

Found an old LTT vid from 2 years ago...........

It's a fascinating sneak peak into how AMD and Intel are building EXAFLOP supercomputers! 

[r2724r16]

3 minutes ago, Results45 said:

Found an old LTT vid from 2 years ago...........

It's a fascinating sneak peak into how AMD and Intel are building EXAFLOP supercomputers! 

Why are you replying to a 5 month old thread?

[Results45]

Cuz I don't know where else to post some things (minor updates/thoughts like that). IDK is it worth starting a new thread about it? cuz as long as it's relevant and not older than a year I don't see why not.