Stuttgart-based HLRS to Build a Supercomputer with 10,000 64-core Zen 2 Processors

[btarunr]

Höchstleistungsrechenzentrum (HLRS, or High-Performance Computing Center), based in Stuttgart Germany, is building a new cluster supercomputer powered by 10,000 AMD Zen 2 "Rome" 64-core processors, making up 640,000 cores. Called "Hawk," the supercomputer will be HLRS' flagship product, and will open its doors to business in 2019. The slide-deck for Hawk makes a fascinating disclosure about the processors it's based on.

Apparently, each of the 64-core "Rome" EPYC processors has a guaranteed clock-speed of 2.35 GHz. This would mean at maximum load (with all cores loaded 100%), the processor can manage to run at 2.35 GHz. This is important, because the supercomputer's advertised throughput is calculated on this basis, and clients draw up SLAs on throughput. The advertised peak throughput for the whole system is 24.06 petaFLOP/s, although the company is yet to put out nominal/guaranteed performance numbers (which it will only after first-hand testing). The system features 665 TB of RAM, and 26,000 TB of storage.



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[W1zzard]

Ah that's at my old university

 

[kastriot]

 

[randomUser]

"AMD EPiC Rome"

They don't even know how AMD CPU is named, how can they be trusted to build a supercomputer?

The CPU isn't out yet, and they already state that they will be using it, without knowing how good or bad it is, only taking into account those 2.35GHz clock speeds.
What if it will consume 1kW at these clocks?

 

[Imsochobo]

"AMD EPiC Rome"

They don't even know how AMD CPU is named, how can they be trusted to build a supercomputer?

The CPU isn't out yet, and they already state that they will be using it, without knowing how good or bad it is, only taking into account those 2.35GHz clock speeds.
What if it will consume 1kW at these clocks?

You do know they sign NDA and get performance specifics ahead of time ?

 

[davideneco]

Amd hawk 24 PF 38 millions euro€

Intel nvidia Titan 27 PF , 97 millions euro€

Amd worth

 

[phill]

I wonder what wPrime or Cinebench R15 scores on it....

 

[R0H1T]

"AMD EPiC Rome"

They don't even know how AMD CPU is named, how can they be trusted to build a supercomputer?

The CPU isn't out yet, and they already state that they will be using it, without knowing how good or bad it is, only taking into account those 2.35GHz clock speeds.
What if it will consume 1kW at these clocks?

You do realize that Rome was sampling for a while now, not to mention CRAY will probably make their next supercomputer with Rome as well. Rome isn't confirmed yet but I'd be surprised, with nearly a year to go if they don't use Rome.

 

[hat]

Good to see AMD getting a contract like this. 10k 64 core EPYC chips though... damn! That's quite a lot.

 

[R0H1T]

Sorry about that it's Milan, not Rome

AMD's EPYC Milan and Nvidia's "Volta-Next" GPUs Combine To Power Shasta Supercomputer

edit ~ possibly an even bigger nugget of (hidden) information

The DOE presented a slide outlining the Milan processors. But, in a case study of how easily slides can be misinterpreted if you aren't there for the presentation, the speaker specifically stated that the "64 cores" listing refers to AMD's Rome processors, and not the Milan chips. For now, the DOE isn't at liberty to disclose the core counts for the Milan CPUs.

 

[INSTG8R]

Sorry about that it's Milan, not Rome

AMD's EPYC Milan and Nvidia's "Volta-Next" GPUs Combine To Power Shasta Supercomputer

edit ~ possibly an even bigger nugget of (hidden) information

Cool! Not seen a partnership like that since my AMD Turion X2 with NV 8800M laptop. /Hums “Why can’t we be friends” But I suppose with them using Milan it’s going to be a ways off yet.

 

[R0H1T]

Cool! Not seen a partnership like that since my AMD Turion X2 with NV 8800M laptop. /Hums “Why can’t we be friends” But I suppose with them using Milan it’s going to be a ways off yet.

Yeah I'm just thinking if zen3 or zen4 (5nm?) will get us to 128c/256t EPYC. Who knows, maybe I'm being a bit too optimistic.

 

[TheGuruStud]

"AMD EPiC Rome"

They don't even know how AMD CPU is named, how can they be trusted to build a supercomputer?

The CPU isn't out yet, and they already state that they will be using it, without knowing how good or bad it is, only taking into account those 2.35GHz clock speeds.
What if it will consume 1kW at these clocks?

Do you even listen to yourself? LOL. This isn't an an intel press stunt.

 

[INSTG8R]

Yeah I'm just thinking if zen3 or zen4 (5nm?) will get us to 128c/256t EPYC. Who knows, maybe I'm being a bit too optimistic.

Well I mean I’m all for latest and greatest but how far off is Milan on the Roadmap. Granted it will be an even more refined 7nm which can only be good this application but are we talking a year? 2 years before they are even available to build this thing?

 

[Freez]

Can it run Crysis tho? In software videomode.

 

[R0H1T]

Well I mean I’m all for latest and greatest but how far off is Milan on the Roadmap. Granted it will be an even more refined 7nm which can only be good this application but are we talking a year? 2 years before they are even available to build this thing?

It might be unveiled in Q4 2019 with mass availability a quarter or two from that, just like Rome. The Shasta systems are to be made commercially available in 2019 Q4, while the Perlmutter supercomputer will be completed in 2020 over multiple stages I guess.

 

[INSTG8R]

It might be unveiled in Q4 2019 with mass availability a quarter or two from that, just like Rome. The Shasta systems are to be made commercially available in 2019 Q4, while the Perlmutter supercomputer will be completed in 2020.

Oh that’s not bad at all.

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

Ah that's at my old university

careful that pride might be showing too much!

Super computers have come a long way since Deep Blue.

 

[XiGMAKiD]

So AMD already have a customer for Rome and sold thousands of it, that's a nice progress from their CPU side unlike their GPU side. If there's a version for X399 of it that would be awesome

 

[Shatun_Bear]

10,000 64-core Rome 2 processors....
How much is that going to cost, around £20m?

 

[Readlight]

These huge data collection machines look dangerous.

 

[jabbadap]

Amd hawk 24 PF 38 millions euro€

Intel nvidia Titan 27 PF , 97 millions euro€

Amd worth

Titan is AMD+nvidia, not intel.

 

[Hellfire]

665TB of Ram....

Still can't open a tab in chrome...

 

[prtskg]

So AMD already have a customer for Rome and sold thousands of it, that's a nice progress from their CPU side unlike their GPU side. If there's a version for X399 of it that would be awesome

In last quarter's financial announcement AMD told that their Instinct line raked in 20M in deals. Obviously it's nothing when compared to Nvidia.

 

[AMX85]

"AMD EPiC Rome"

They don't even know how AMD CPU is named, how can they be trusted to build a supercomputer?

The CPU isn't out yet, and they already state that they will be using it, without knowing how good or bad it is, only taking into account those 2.35GHz clock speeds.
What if it will consume 1kW at these clocks?

epic fail, because EPYC does´nt fail xD

Greetings

I wonder what wPrime or Cinebench R15 scores on it....

these benchs does´nt scales well in these cases

greetings

665TB of Ram....

Still can't open a tab in chrome...

they´ll use Opera :V