At the ISC international supercomputing conference a few days ago, the 59th TOP500 supercomputing list was also released. The supercomputing system frontier of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) of the United States surpassed Fuyue of Japan to become the global supercomputing champion, and it was the first supercomputing with a performance of 10 billion times, reaching 1.102 exaflop/ s** Of course, for AMD, this ranking is more meaningful, because frontier supercomputing uses AMD's third-generation epyc 64 core processor and insight mi250x accelerator card. The strongest supercomputing uses AMD's CPU and graphics card at the same time, which means that AMD has finally won the top in high-performance computing.
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In the supercomputing field, the last time amd won the TOP500 was Titan supercomputing in 2012. The processor was AMD's Haolong 6274 16 core, and the acceleration card was NVIDIA's Tesla k20x. The peak floating-point performance finally reached 27pflops, that is, 270Million times.
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Titan supercomputing retired in 2019. Over the past two years, amd has begun to recover its lost ground in supercomputing due to the performance advantages of epyc processor. Now, with the arrival of Frontier supercomputing, it has finally won the first place for a long time.
Amd won the TOP500 supercomputing this time. Not only the frontier supercomputing won the first place, but actually five of the top10 were based on AMD processors, including Lumi in the third place, Perlmutter in the seventh place, Selene in the eighth place and adasdtra in the tenth place.
In addition, China's strongest supercomputing in the TOP500 is Shenwei Taihu light. The performance of 93.1pflops has not changed, and currently ranks sixth in the world. At present, the total number of TOP500 overbooks in the United States has decreased from 150 to 126, and there are still 173 in China.
Finally, in fact, AMD's frontier is not the world's first 10 billion times of supercomputing in the real sense, but it is likely that there will be no Chinese supercomputing ranking in the TOP500 supercomputing in the future.