<div dir="ltr"><div>It's very interesting to see the design choices! At least in the materials characterization space most of the code is based on CUDA, so this system will be useless for that community except for the cpus. Almost none of the software development is done using AMD, so processor optimisations either. It's good to see more competition but I'm not sure it's actually helping the researchers.</div><div><br></div><div>The other community that will struggle is AI/ML as they are pushing very hard into the CUDA space. There are very researchers that I've seen at SuperComputing or locally that are using cpus for their research. AMD gpus don't appear to have any capability in this area and will need to do an awful lot to catch up. It seems a lot of money to be spent on a limited use case machine. </div><div><br></div><div>I'd be keen to hear others experiences with AMD cpu and gpu systems?</div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Cheers,<br><br>Lance<br>--<br>Dr Lance Wilson<br>Characterisation Virtual Laboratory (CVL) Coordinator &</div><div dir="ltr">Senior HPC Consultant</div><div>Ph: 03 99055942 (+61 3 99055942)</div><div dir="ltr">Mobile: 0437414123 (+61 4 3741 4123)</div><div dir="ltr">Multi-modal Australian ScienceS Imaging and Visualisation Environment<br>(<a href="http://www.massive.org.au/" rel="noreferrer" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">www.massive.org.au</a>)<br>Monash University<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 8 May 2019 at 06:44, Jörg Saßmannshausen <<a href="mailto:sassy-work@sassy.formativ.net">sassy-work@sassy.formativ.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi Prentice,<br>
<br>
that looks interesting and I hope it means I will finally get the neutron <br>
structure which was measured last year there! :-)<br>
<br>
On a more serious note: I think it is interesting that they are using AMD for <br>
both the CPUs and GPUs. It sounds at least very fast of what they want to <br>
build, lets hope their design will work as planned as well. <br>
<br>
All the best from London<br>
<br>
Jörg<br>
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Am Dienstag, 7. Mai 2019, 10:32:42 BST schrieb Prentice Bisbal via Beowulf:<br>
> ORNL's Frontier System has been announced:<br>
> <br>
> <a href="https://www.hpcwire.com/2019/05/07/cray-amd-exascale-frontier-at-oak-ridge/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.hpcwire.com/2019/05/07/cray-amd-exascale-frontier-at-oak-ridge/</a><br>
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