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AMD Announces World’s Fastest HPC Accelerator for Scientific Research¹
ꟷ AMD Instinct™ MI100 accelerators revolutionize high-performance computing (HPC) and AI with industry-leading compute performance ꟷ ꟷ First GPU accelerator
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[{"type":"text","content":"ꟷ AMD Instinct™ MI100 accelerators revolutionize high-performance computing (HPC) and AI with industry-leading compute performance ꟷ\n ꟷ First GPU accelerator with new AMD CDNA architecture engineered for the exascale era ꟷ SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 16, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced the new AMD Instinct™ MI100 accelerator – the world’s fastest HPC GPU and the first x86 server GPU to surpass the 10 teraflops (FP64) performance barrier.1 Supported by new accelerated compute platforms from Dell, Gigabyte, HPE, and Supermicro, the MI100, combined with AMD EPYCTM CPUs and the ROCm™ 4.0 open software platform, is designed to propel new discoveries ahead of the exascale era. Built on the new AMD CDNA architecture, the AMD Instinct MI100 GPU enables a new class of accelerated systems for HPC and AI when paired with 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors. The MI100 offers up to 11.5 TFLOPS of peak FP64 performance for HPC and up to 46.1 TFLOPS peak FP32 Matrix performance for AI and machine learning workloads2. With new AMD Matrix Core technology, the MI100 also delivers a nearly 7x boost in FP16 theoretical peak floating point performance for AI training workloads compared to AMD’s prior generation accelerators.3 “Today AMD takes a major step forward in the journey toward exascale computing as we unveil the AMD Instinct MI100 – the world’s fastest HPC GPU,” said Brad McCredie, corporate vice president, Data Center GPU and Accelerated Processing, AMD. “Squarely targeted toward the workloads that matter in scientific computing, our latest accelerator, when combined with the AMD ROCm open software platform, is designed to provide scientists and researchers a superior foundation for their work in HPC.” Open Software Platform for the Exascale Era The AMD ROCm developer software provides the foundation for exascale computing. As an open source toolset consisting of compilers, programming APIs and libraries, ROCm is used by exascale software developers to create high performance applications. ROCm 4.0 has been optimized to deliver performance at scale for MI100-based systems. ROCm 4.0 has upgraded the compiler to be open source and unified to support both OpenMP® 5.0 and HIP. PyTorch and Tensorflow frameworks, which have been optimized with ROCm 4.0, can now achieve higher performance with MI1007,8. ROCm 4.0 is the latest off...