[Beowulf] AMD Accelerated Data Center Keynote

[Andrew M.A. Cater]

On Tue, Nov 09, 2021 at 12:01:38PM +0000, 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?
> 

You'd have to ask a Hannibal or wait and see - that sort of question is the
elephant in the room ...

Andy Cater

> 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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