[Beowulf] [External] Re: AMD Accelerated Data Center Keynote

[Prentice Bisbal]

Well, their "cloud native", 128-core processor is "Bergamo", which is 
northwest of Milan.

"Trento" looks like the obvious next codename. Should we start a betting 
pool?


Prentice

On 11/9/21 7:01 AM, John Hearns wrote:
> 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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