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Today the TOP500, a rank of the fastest supercomputers in the world, was published yesterday at the International Supercomputing Conference, (ISC2022). Key findings from this vendor agnostic industry effort include:
1. The first ever exascale supercomputer, Frontier, topped the list (able to compute 1018 FP64 double-precision floating-point operations per second). It has more than double the computing performance of the previous top supercomputer in the world, Fugaku. Frontier uses AMD EPYC CPUs and AMD’s Instinct MI250X GPGPUs. The system is designed by HPE Cray and is installed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory of the US Department of Energy.
2. Out of the top 10 supercomputers, 5 were powered by AMD EPYC CPUs, a significant shift in the industry which has been dominated by Intel and IBM CPUs.
3. Out of the 152 systems commissioned since 2021, Intel CPUs were used for 53% with AMD claiming 46%, another example of the shift in the industry’s CPU preference. Looking at the systems for academic & research use cases, AMD commanded a 73% share. The majority of Intel systems are deployed for commercial or industrial use (typically less than 10 PFlops).
4. AMD also dominated the Green500 list of most power efficient supercomputers. 4 out of the top 5 greenest systems were powered by AMD processors.
The deployment of the first exascale supercomputer is a big step for the high-performance computing industry. The race to add more exascale systems to the list is on with Intel’s upcoming generation of Sapphire Rapids CPUs and Ponte Vecchio GPUs powering at least one – Aurora.
The strides AMD has made in the supercomputing space are very notable, especially because it’s been out of the game for nearly a decade (the Titan supercomputer powered by Opteron CPUs became operational in 2012). Importantly, AMD dominated the league table for both most performance and efficiency ones, two critical aspects of high-performance computing.
Omdia’s Cloud and Data Center Research Practice publishes quarterly market trackers, analyses, and reports on the topic of data center computing. A new report and forecast focused, specifically on the topic of high-performance computing will be published in the third quarter of 2022.
Today the TOP500, a rank of the fastest supercomputers in the world, was published yesterday at the International Supercomputing Conference, (ISC2022). Key findings from this vendor agnostic industry effort include:
1. The first ever exascale supercomputer, Frontier, topped the list (able to compute 1018 FP64 double-precision floating-point operations per second). It has more than double the computing performance of the previous top supercomputer in the world, Fugaku. Frontier uses AMD EPYC CPUs and AMD’s Instinct MI250X GPGPUs. The system is designed by HPE Cray and is installed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory of the US Department of Energy.
2. Out of the top 10 supercomputers, 5 were powered by AMD EPYC CPUs, a significant shift in the industry which has been dominated by Intel and IBM CPUs.
3. Out of the 152 systems commissioned since 2021, Intel CPUs were used for 53% with AMD claiming 46%, another example of the shift in the industry’s CPU preference. Looking at the systems for academic & research use cases, AMD commanded a 73% share. The majority of Intel systems are deployed for commercial or industrial use (typically less than 10 PFlops).
4. AMD also dominated the Green500 list of most power efficient supercomputers. 4 out of the top 5 greenest systems were powered by AMD processors.
The deployment of the first exascale supercomputer is a big step for the high-performance computing industry. The race to add more exascale systems to the list is on with Intel’s upcoming generation of Sapphire Rapids CPUs and Ponte Vecchio GPUs powering at least one – Aurora.
The strides AMD has made in the supercomputing space are very notable, especially because it’s been out of the game for nearly a decade (the Titan supercomputer powered by Opteron CPUs became operational in 2012). Importantly, AMD dominated the league table for both most performance and efficiency ones, two critical aspects of high-performance computing.
Omdia’s Cloud and Data Center Research Practice publishes quarterly market trackers, analyses, and reports on the topic of data center computing. A new report and forecast focused, specifically on the topic of high-performance computing will be published in the third quarter of 2022.
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