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AMD and Cray 'Frontier': will launch a supercomputer of 1,5 exaFLOPS

AMD and Cray 'Frontier': will launch a supercomputer of 1,5 exaFLOPS - Ultimate Guide

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Daniel Hidalgo
2019-05-08 15:44:36

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AMD and Cray 'Frontier': will launch a supercomputer of 1,5 exaFLOPS.

AMD and Cray have joined once again, in this opportunity to start the "Frontier" development, a supercomputer that according to the developers will be the most powerful supercomputer in the world and its launch is expected to be announced by the year 2021.

Frontier could be the first supercomputer to make it into the "exascale" era of these machines with enormous hardware power.
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1,5 exaFLOPS for the first time in history


However, it will be the most powerful of all, them with its 1,5 exaFLOPS for the first time in history.

But many insurances are a little lost with the word exaFLOPS, exaFLOPS is a huge number of floating point operations per second: in particular they are 10 raised to 18 operations of this type per second.

If we compare Frontier with the most powerful supercomputer at this moment which reaches 200.794 TFLOPS maximum, or what is the same, 0.2 exaFLOPS, a challenge soon surpassed by Frontier.

The last collaboration of Cray and AMD in Oak Ridge, was when they developed Titan, another supercomputer that had a speed of 17.6 petaFLOPS which quickly gave him fame at that time.



custom AMD Epyc processors with a future generation


Titan used AMD Opteron processors and NVIDIA K20X GPUs, however, Frontier will use custom AMD Epyc processors with a future generation of its Zen architecture possibly being Zen 4.

There is not much information about the next most powerful supercomputer in the world, but it is known that it will give a lot of use to the HBM memory and that there will be a 4: 1 ratio of GPU to CPU, that is, the super machine will not only make use of the processors, but it will also greatly benefit the 4 GPUs available per processor.


Without a doubt Frontier will not be the size of an ant, it is also known that it will have a support of up to 300 kW of power. In total there will be 40 MW available to power this bestial supercomputer, both to need more power to operate, in addition to reducing consumption by 50% compared to less powerful Chinese supercomputers.

AMD has said that this will allow it to "dramatically improve scaled performance for artificial intelligence, analysis and simulation."





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