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AMD Plans To Boost AI & HPC Energy Efficiency Up To 30 Times By 2025

AMD revealed today a set goal to bring thirty times more energy efficiency for their EPYC CPUs and Instinct accelerators for AI training and HPC, or High-Performance Computing, programs that are processed by accelerated computational nodes. The expected start date would be no sooner than the year 2025. This includes AMD’s high-processing CPUs, their efficient …

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Intel’s Ponte Vecchio Xe HPC GPU A0 Silicon Power On, Benchmarked And Detailed

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Intel has powered on the Ponte Vecchio A0 silicon and it seems to be working perfectly. This is great news for Intel investors because Ponte Vecchio was the company’s most ambitious moonshot in quite a while and considering it had no prior discrete graphics experience it is very impressive that Masooma Bhaiwala and her team, …

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AMD Aldebaran CDNA 2 GPU For Instinct MI200 HPC Accelerator Visualized

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AMD’s CDNA 2 powered Aldebaran GPU is headed for launch in the Instinct MI200 accelerator later this year. The GPU is going to feature an MCM design and will carry a massive amount of cores and memory. With all that we know about the chip so far, Twitter fellow, Locuza, has come up with a …

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AMD Instinct MI200 ‘Aldebaran’ HPC GPU All Set To Introduce MCM CDNA 2 Architecture

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AMD is gearing up to launch its first MCM GPU, the Instinct MI200 based on the Aldebaran HPC chip. The Instinct MI200 would be featuring the CDNA 2 graphics architecture and offer twice the horsepower thanks to the industry-leading multi-chip-module packaging design. AMD Instinct MI200 ‘Aldebaran’ HPC GPU All Set To Introduce MCM CDNA 2 …

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AMD Instinct MI200 CDNA 2 ‘Aldebaran’ MCM HPC GPU Accelerator Launching Later This Year

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AMD’s CEO has confirmed that the successor to the CDNA architecture-powered Instinct GPU HPC accelerator is on its way for launch later this year. AMD Instinct MI200 With CDNA 2 MCM GPU Architecture Landing Later This Year, Will Power HPC Workloads The confirmation came during JPMorgan’s 49th Annual Global Technology Communications and Media conference. AMD’s …

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Intel’s Raja Koduri Reveals Full Die Shot Of 2-Tile Intel Xe HPC GPU Ready For Power On

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Intel’s Chief Architect Raja Koduri has just revealed the first die shot of Intel’s Xe HPC GPU (informally known as Arctic Sound), specifically the 2-tile variant. It is the first time we are seeing the insides of the package and the actual dies (although the exact picture appears to have been shaded over by Intel) …

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Here Is Intel’s First 7nm GPU Xe HPC Diagram With Correct Annotations

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Intel recently unveiled one of the biggest chips we have ever seen and we instantly reached out to some of our sources for further details. While we had an idea of what to expect due to technical disclosures on Architecture Day we were still blown away by what we learned. You are looking at what …

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Gigabyte Announces The G242-Z11 HPC Server With Dual AMD EPYC Rome CPUs & Four NVIDIA Ampere A100 GPUs

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GIGABYTE, today announced the launch of the GIGABYTE G242-Z11 with PCIe 4.0, which adds to an already extensive line of G242 series servers, designed for AI, deep learning, data analytics, and scientific computing. Gigabyte Announces The G242-Z11 HPC Server – Includes Dual EPYC 7H12 64 Core CPUs & 4 NVIDIA Ampere A100 GPUs The G242-Z11 caters …

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Intel’s Ponte Vecchio Xe HPC GPU Will Not Be Manufactured On TSMC’s 6nm Process

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A day ago we covered a report from DigiTimes stating that Intel had booked 180,000 wafers on their 6nm process and would be using the node for their flagship HPC Ponte Vecchio GPU. Well, as it turns out, DigiTimes got the order right (more on that later) but were completely off the mark about the …

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Raja Koduri Teases Intel’s Next-Gen Xe HP & HPC Graphics Based GPUs

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Intel has just teased its upcoming Xe architecture powered GPUs which come in three distinct packages. The three Xe GPUs were teased by Raja Koduri who gave a visit to the Xe GPU Lab in Folsom, California. Intel Teases Three Massive Xe GPUs In BFP “Big Fabulous Package” Flavors – Coming To A Data Center …

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Gigabyte Unveils Tesla A100 Ampere GPU Powered HPC Systems

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GIGABYTE has announced four NVIDIA Tesla A100 Ampere GPU powered systems in its HPC lineup which include the G492-ZD0, G492-ID0, G262-ZR0, and the G262-IR0. These products are split by not only the processor, offering either a 2nd Gen AMD EPYC or 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors installed into the server’s chassis. Gigabyte Unveils NVIDIA …

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Intel Xe HPC 7nm GPU & 10nm Sapphire Rapids Xeon CPU Powered Aurora Supercomputer Detailed

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The Intel-powered Aurora supercomputer which would house the next-generation Xe HPC ‘Ponte Vecchio’ GPU and Sapphire Rapids Xeon CPU has been further detailed. Launching next year, the Aurora supercomputer will be deployed at the Argonne National Laboratory and will be one of the first exascale machines on the planet. Intel’s Exascale Aurora Supercomputer For 2021 …

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AMD, NVIDIA, And NWSC Project Team Up With The HPC COVID-19 Consortium

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Folding @ Home may have pushed a big wave in the world of COVID-19 research efforts but it looks like the HPC COVID-19 Consortium just gained some big players. AMD and NVIDIA are the most notable here for our readers but I would be remiss to not mention the NWS Project as well for putting …

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European Processor Initiative Readies its Custom HPC Processor

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Source: The Next Platform The European Processor Initiative or (EPI) is Europe’s project to kickstart the development of custom processors that are specifically designed for different usage modes that the European Union might need. EPI is Europe’s project to have custom processors, the first task being the creation of a processor used in high-performance applications …

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