AMD is on the roll, announcing more supercomputing wins for their 2nd Gen EPYC processors, including four supercomputers in the top 50 list, and ten in the top 500!
2nd Gen AMD EPYC : A Quick Primer
The 2nd Gen AMD EPYC family of server processors are based on the AMD Zen 2 microarchitecture and fabricated on the latest 7 nm process technology.
According to AMD, they offer up to 90% better integer performance and up to 79% better floating-point performance, than the competing Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 processor. For more details :
- 2nd Gen EPYC – Everything You Need To Know Summarised!
- AMD EPYC 7002 Series Price + Specifications Compared!
Here is a quick 7.5 minute summary of the 2nd Gen EPYC product presentations by Dr. Lisa Su, Mark Papermaster and Forrest Norrod!
AMD EPYC : Four Supercomputers In Top 50, Ten In Top 500!
Thanks to the greatly improved performance of their 2nd Gen EPYC processors, they now power four supercomputers in the top 50 list :
| Top 50 Rank | Supercomputer | Processor |
| 7 | Selene NVIDIA DGX A100 SuperPOD |
AMD EPYC 7742 |
| 30 | Belenos Atos BullSequana XH2000 |
AMD EPYC 7H12 |
| 34 | Joilot-Curie Atos BullSequana XH2000 |
AMD EPYC 7H12 |
| 48 | Mahti Atos BullSequana XH2000 |
AMD EPYC 7H12 |
On top of those four supercomputers, there are another six other supercomputers in the Top 500 ranking, powered by AMD EPYC.
In addition to powering supercomputers, AMD EPYC 7742 processors will soon power Gigabyte servers selected by CERN to handle data from their Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
3rd Gen AMD EPYC Supercomputers
AMD also announced that two universities will deploy Dell EMC PowerEdge servers powered by the upcoming 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors.
Indiana University
Indiana University will deploy Jetstream 2 – an eight-petaflop distributed cloud computing system, powered by the upcoming 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors.
Jetstream 2 will be used by researchers in a variety of fields like AI, social sciences and COVID-19 research.
Purdue University
Purdue University will deploy Anvil – a supercomputer powered by the upcoming 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors, for use in a wide range of computational and data-intensive research.
AMD EPYC will also power Purdue University’s community cluster “Bell”, scheduled for deployment in the fall.
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