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SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 22, 2020 AMD announced multiple new high-performance computing wins for AMD EPYC processors, including that the seventh fastest supercomputer in the world and four of the 50 highest-performance systems on the bi-annual TOP500 list are now powered by AMD. Momentum for AMD EPYC processors in advanced science and health research continues to grow with new installations at Indiana University, Purdue University and CERN as well as high-performance computing (HPC) cloud instances from Amazon Web Services, Google, and Oracle Cloud.

The leading HPC institutions are increasingly leveraging the power of 2ndGen AMD EPYC processors to enable cutting-edge research that addresses the worlds greatest challenges, said Forrest Norrod, senior vice president and general manager, data center and embedded systems group, AMD. Our AMD EPYC CPUs, Radeon Instinct accelerators and open software programming environment are helping to advance the industry towards exascale-class computing, and we are proud to strengthen the global HPC ecosystem through our support of the top supercomputing clusters and cloud computing environments.

From powering the upcoming worlds fastest exascale supercomputers,FrontierandEl Capitan, to supporting workloads in the cloud, and driving new advancements in health research, the high core count and extensive memory bandwidth of AMD EPYC processors are helping meet the growing demand from HPC providers for improved performance, scalability, efficiency, and total cost of ownership.

AMD Continues Expanding Share of TOP500 Supercomputers

Four AMD EPYC powered supercomputers are now among the 50 highest-performance systems in the world and there are now ten AMD EPYC-powered supercomputers on theTOP500:

Atos is proud to provide to its customers with cutting edge technology, integrating 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors as soon as released, and demonstrating increased performance on HPC applications in production environments, said Agns Boudot, group senior vice president, Head of HPC and Quantum at Atos.

AMD Powered Supercomputing Systems Drive Research of the Future

Two universities announced new research supercomputing systems powered by AMD EPYC processors in Dell EMC PowerEdge servers.

Indiana Universitywill deploy Jetstream 2, an eight-petaflop distributed cloud computing system powered by upcoming 3rdGen AMD EPYC processors. This system will be used by researchers in a variety of fields such as AI, social sciences, and COVID-19 research. AMD EPYC processors already powerBig Red 200at the Indiana University campus.

Jetstream 2 bundles computation, software and access to storage for individuals and teams of researchers across an array of areas of research, said David Hancock, Director in Research Technologies, affiliated with the Pervasive Technology Institute at Indiana University. With the next generation AMD EPYC processor, Jetstream 2 will provide 8 petaflops of cloud computing power, giving more access to high-end technologies to enable deep learning and artificial intelligence techniques.

Purdue Universitywill deploy Anvil, a supercomputer powered by next generation AMD EPYC processors, which will provide advanced computing capabilities to support a wide range of computational and data-intensive research. AMD EPYC will also power Purdues latest community cluster Bell, scheduled for deployment early this fall.

In addition, CERN, the largest particle physics laboratory in the world, recently selected 2ndGen AMD EPYC processors in Gigabyte servers to harness the massive amounts of data from their latest Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment to rapidly detect subatomic particles known as beauty quarks. A newcase study details how combining the increased bandwidth of PCIe 4.0, DDR4 memory speed, and the 64 core AMD EPYC 7742 processor allows researchers to collect the raw data streams generated by 40 terabytes of collision data occurring every second in the LHC.

High Performance Computing in the Cloud with AMD EPYC

As the HPC industry evolves to support new workload demands, cloud providers continue to adopt 2ndGen AMD EPYC processors to provide leadership performance and flexible solutions. With recent cloud wins among technology partners likeAmazon Web Services,Google CloudandOracle Cloud, AMD is helping industry leaders push the boundaries in the new era of HPC and cloud computing.

AMD and Microsoft Azure have continued to build upon their cloud partnership with the recentlyannouncedHBv2-Series VMs for high-performance computing workloads. The 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors provide Microsoft Azure customers with impressive core scaling, access to massive memory bandwidth and are the first x86 server processors that support PCIe 4.0, enabling some of the best high-performance computing experiences in the industry. Together, AMD and Microsoft Azure will support real-world HPC workloads, such as CFD, explicit finite element analysis, seismic processing, reservoir modeling, rendering, and weather simulation.

AMD Updates ROCm For Heterogenous Software Support

Community support continues to grow for AMD Radeon Open eCosystem (ROCm), AMDs open source foundation for heterogenous compute. Major development milestones in the latest update include:

Join AMD CTO and executive vice president, Mark Papermaster, for a webinar on July 15thto discuss the full range of AMD solutions and upcoming innovations in HPC. Click the link for the time most convenient for you to register:9 AMEDT,12 PMEDT or9 PMEDT.

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