[Beowulf] AMD Accelerated Data Center Keynote

[John Hearns]

All good Jim. However to be allowed to benchmark these systems you must
pronounce the CPU as "Milawn"
As I said elsewhere, they are getting pretty far north now. Is the plan to
cross the Alps?

On Tue, 9 Nov 2021 at 09:23, Jim Cownie <jcownie at gmail.com> wrote:

> @Prentice:
> > Certainly looking forward to running some benchmarks on these systems
> myself when I can.
>
> Apparently you can get access to these machines immediately in Azure...
> https://twitter.com/hpcnotes/status/1457755481544577039
>
> 5:02 PM · Nov 8, 2021·Twitter Web App
>   Andrew Jones @hpcnotes
>   Like the sound of the high performance #AMD EPYC #Milan-X processors
> from today’s
>   @LisaSu keynote?
>
>   As far as I know, the only place you can actually get access to use
> Milan-X today is via Microsoft
>   #Azure #HPC HBv3
>
>   You can sign up at http://aka.ms/MilanXPreview
>
> -- Jim
> James Cownie <jcownie at gmail.com>
> Mob: +44 780 637 7146
>
> > On 8 Nov 2021, at 20:45, Prentice Bisbal via Beowulf <
> beowulf at beowulf.org> wrote:
> >
> > Did anyone else catch the AMD Datacenter Premier Keynote this morning?
> AMD made some pretty impressive claims, like their MI200 GPUs are 4.5x
> faster than NVIDIA A100s. and one of these GPUs will be ~4x faster than an
> entire Summit node. Their Milan (Zen4) CPUs will have 96 up to 96 cores,
> and their Bergamo "cloud native" CPUs will have up to 128 cores.
> >
> > It was live streamed on YouTube this morning, and is available for
> watching at the link below, which is how I watched it:
> >
> > https://youtu.be/ECHhuvuiNzs
> >
> > I think it's definitely worth a watch to see what's coming, and to see
> AMD's performance claims. Certainly looking forward to running some
> benchmarks on these systems myself when I can.
> >
> > --
> > Prentice
> >
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