AMD Powers El Capitan, World’s Fastest Supercomputer

<p><strong>SANTA CLARA<&sol;strong> &&num;8212&semi; <a title&equals;"AMD" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;amd&period;com&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener">AMD<&sol;a> showcased its high performance computing &lpar;HPC&rpar; leadership at Supercomputing 2024 by powering the world’s fastest supercomputer for the sixth straight <a title&equals;"Top500" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;top500&period;org&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener">Top500<&sol;a> list&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The El Capitan supercomputer&comma; housed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory &lpar;LLNL&rpar;&comma; powered by <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;amd&period;com&sol;en&sol;products&sol;accelerators&sol;instinct&sol;mi300&sol;mi300a&period;html" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener">AMD Instinct MI300A APUs<&sol;a> and built by Hewlett Packard Enterprise &lpar;HPE&rpar;&comma; is now the fastest supercomputer in the world with a High-Performance Linpack &lpar;HPL&rpar; score of 1&period;742 exaflops based on the latest <a title&equals;"Top500 list" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;top500&period;org&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener">Top500 list<&sol;a>&period; Both El Capitan and the Frontier system at Oak Ridge National Lab claimed numbers 18 and 22&comma; respectively&comma; on the Green500 list&comma; showcasing the impressive capabilities of the AMD EPYC processors and AMD Instinct GPUs to drive leadership performance and energy efficiency for HPC workloads&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We are thrilled to see El Capitan become the second AMD powered supercomputer to break the exaflop barrier and become the fastest supercomputer in the world&period; Showcasing the incredible performance and efficiency of the AMD Instinct MI300 APUs&comma; this groundbreaking machine is a testament to the dedicated work between AMD&comma; LLNL and HPE&comma;” said Forrest Norrod&comma; executive vice president and general manager&comma; AMD&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;At AMD&comma; we are driving the future of computing with leadership performance and capabilities that will continue to define the convergence of HPC and AI for years to come&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;El Capitan is crucial to the National Nuclear Security Administration’s core mission and significantly bolsters our ability to perform large ensembles of high-fidelity 3D simulations that address the intricate scientific challenges facing the mission&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said Rob Neely&comma; director of LLNL’s Advanced Simulation and Computing program&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Bronis R&period; de Supinski&comma; LLNL’s chief technology officer for Livermore Computing adds&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Leveraging the AMD Instinct MI300A APUs&comma; we&&num;8217&semi;ve built a system that was once unimaginable&comma; pushing the absolute boundaries of computational performance while maintaining exceptional energy efficiency&period; With AI becoming increasingly prevalent in our field&comma; El Capitan allows us to integrate AI with our traditional simulation and modeling workloads&comma; opening new avenues for discovery across various scientific disciplines&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;