{"id":21039,"date":"2019-10-15T14:03:56","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T12:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=21039"},"modified":"2019-11-08T17:44:39","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T16:44:39","slug":"amd-goes-supercomputing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=21039","title":{"rendered":"AMD goes Supercomputing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-19090 size-Post-Thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/AMDEpyc-64x64.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/AMDEpyc-64x64.png 64w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/AMDEpyc-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/AMDEpyc.png 256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 64px) 100vw, 64px\" \/>It&#8217;s not often that you hear from AMD being used in<br \/>\nSupercomputers. But with Archer2, a new supercomputer<br \/>\nin the UK, this might change soon. The compter consists of<br \/>\n11&#8217;696 EPYC-2-CPUs with each 64 cores.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This means that a whopping 748&#8217;544 CPU cores will be doing the calculations.<\/p>\n<p>The system consists of two interlinked housings which additionally have 1.57PB RAM, 14.5PB HDD space and 1.1PB SSD space. Value of the system: \u00a379 million GBP.<\/p>\n<p>The system will be capable of handling 28 PFLOPS\/s which will make it the 5th fastest supercomputer in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.top500.org\/lists\/2019\/06\/\">TOP500 list<\/a>. Although it is way slower than the Exascale system from the USA, Archer2 will be the fastest SUpercomputer based on regularly-available Nextgen AMD CPUs.<\/p>\n<p>Archer2 is planned to be ready for operation in Q2 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not often that you hear from AMD being used in Supercomputers. But with Archer2, a new supercomputer in the UK, this might change soon. The compter consists of 11&#8217;696 EPYC-2-CPUs with each 64 cores.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,4,3,2949],"tags":[4145,1098,4144,173,172,3892],"class_list":["post-21039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-2","category-curiosities","category-news","category-technology","tag-desktop-cpu","tag-gpgpu","tag-scaling","tag-supercomputer","tag-top500","tag-united-kingdom"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}