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AMD claims its Frontier is ‘the world’s fastest supercomputer’

May 7, 2019 by Sam Francis

Chipmaker AMD claims its new “Frontier” system will be the fastest supercomputer in the world.

AMD is working with the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and supercomputing specialist Cray on the system.

The three jointly announced what is expected to be “the world’s fastest exascale-class supercomputer”, scheduled to be delivered to ORNL in 2021.

To deliver what is expected to be more than 1.5 exaflops of expected processing performance, the Frontier system is designed to use future generation high-performance computing and artificial intelligence optimized, custom AMD EPYC CPU, and AMD Radeon Instinct GPU processors.

Researchers at ORNL will use the Frontier system’s unprecedented computing power and next-generation AI techniques to simulate, model and advance understanding of the interactions underlying the science of weather, sub-atomic structures, genomics, physics, and other important scientific fields.

Forrest Norrod, senior vice president and general manager, AMD Datacenter and Embedded Systems Group, says: “AMD is proud to partner with Cray and ORNL to deliver what is expected to be the world’s most powerful supercomputer.

“Frontier will feature custom CPU and GPU technology from AMD and represents the latest achievement on a long list of technology innovations AMD has contributed to the Department of Energy exascale programs.”

AMD innovations to be used in the Frontier system include:

  • Future-generation HPC and AI optimized, custom AMD EPYC CPU, and Radeon Instinct GPU processors supported by high bandwidth memory and extensive mixed precision ops for optimum deep learning performance;
  • A custom high-bandwidth, low-latency coherent Infinity Fabric, connecting four AMD Radeon Instinct GPUs to one AMD EPYC CPU per node;
  • An enhanced version of the open source ROCm programming environment, developed with Cray to tap into the combined performance of AMD CPUs and GPUs.

Steve Scott, senior vice president and CTO at Cray, says: “We are excited to work with the team at AMD to deliver the Frontier system to Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

“Cray’s Shasta supercomputers are designed to support leading-edge processor technologies and high-performance storage, all tightly interconnected by Cray’s new Slingshot network.

“The combination of Cray and AMD technology in the Frontier system will dramatically enhance performance at scale for AI, analytics, and simulation, enabling DOE to further push the boundaries of scientific discovery.”

AMD has a proud supercomputing history and a long-standing engagement with DOE, starting with the Jaguar supercomputer in 2005 and Titan supercomputer in 2012.

The Frontier system leverages years of exascale technology investments by DOE.

The contract award includes technology development funding, a center of excellence, several early-delivery systems, the main Frontier system and multi-year systems support.

Jeff Nichols, associate laboratory director for Computing and Computational Sciences, ORNL, says: “Frontier represents the state-of-the art in high-performance computing. Designing and standing up a machine of its scope requires working closely with industry, partnerships which not only enable breakthrough science but also ensure American scientific and economic competitiveness on the global stage.

“We are delighted to work with AMD to integrate the CPU and GPU technologies that enable this extremely capable accelerated node architecture.”

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