AMD Remains the Partner of Choice for World’s Fastest and Most Efficient High Performance Computing Deployments

— 156 of the Top500 supercomputers are powered by AMD, a 29 percent year-over-year increase —

— New AMD Alveo V80 compute accelerator card targeting HPC and compute-intensive workloads, with up to 2X increase in HBM bandwidth, now shipping —

SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 13, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) showcased its ongoing high performance computing (HPC) leadership at ISC High Performance 2024. For the third year in a row, the Frontier supercomputer housed at Oak Ridge National Lab – powered by AMD EPYC CPUs and AMD Instinct GPUs – remains the fastest supercomputer in the world with a High-Performance Linpack (HPL) score of 1.2 exaflops based on the latest Top500 list.

The Top500 list also includes three new systems from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories (LLNL), the El Capitan Early Delivery System (EDS), RZAdams, and Tuolumne, coming in at number 46, 47 and 48 respectively on the Top500 list with a single cabinet early submission scores of 19.65 petaflops. These three systems are the first supercomputers on the Top500 list powered by the AMD Instinct MI300A APU, launched in December 2023.

AMD now powers 156 supercomputers on the latest Top500 list, a 29 percent increase from the previous year, and 157 systems on the Green500 list of the most efficient supercomputers in the world.

“The AMD Instinct MI300A APUs are setting the pace for innovation, delivering leadership performance and efficiency for critical workloads sitting at the convergence of HPC and AI,” said Brad McCredie, corporate vice president and general manager, Data Center and Accelerated Processing, AMD. “We are thrilled with the progress shown by LLNL today with their early submissions using AMD Instinct MI300A APUs. We look forward to our continued engagement with the teams at HPE and LLNL for further optimizations to drive increased performance as we help bring up El Capitan.”

The Next Step in the Exascale Era

AMD and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) have collaborated to build El Capitan for LLNL, continuing the technology partnership established while developing Frontier. Debuting on the Top500 list, El Capitan EDS, RZAdams, and Tuolumne demonstrate that the El Capitan system is on track to become the second supercomputer, powered by AMD, to surpass the exaflop barrier.

"RZAdams is a critical addition to LLNL's existing and highly capable unclassified computing ecosystem,” said Bronis R. de Supinski, chief technology officer for Livermore Computing, LLNL. “Given the boost in performance we are already seeing from the AMD Instinct MI300A APUs, we expect this system to be a strategically significant resource and to move us forward across a wide range of scientific areas. RZAdams is supporting essential opportunities for code porting, optimization and software development for some of the applications that will eventually run on El Capitan. It is also allowing our scientists to push the boundaries of discovery with greater speed and efficiency than previous unclassified systems.”