News AMD to Power Cray’s ARCHER2 Supercomputer in the UK

[Hitman928]

AMD to Power Cray's ARCHER2 Supercomputer in the UK - High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC

Following a procurement exercise, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) are pleased to announce that Cray, an HPE company, has been awarded the contract to supply the hardware for the next national supercomputer, ARCHER2. Powered by AMD EPYC processors, ARCHER2 will be deployed at the University of...

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To come online next year.

 

[Markfw]

cliff-note:

• 28 PFLOP/s peak performance
• 5,848 compute nodes, each with dual AMD Rome 64 core CPUs at 2.2GHz, for 748,544 cores in total and 1.57 PBytes of total system memory
• 23x Shasta Mountain direct liquid cooled cabinets
• 14.5 PBytes of Lustre work storage in 4 file systems
• 1.1 PByte all-flash Lustre BurstBuffer file system

about 1.5 million threads !!! Talk about a beast.

 

[ClockHound]

That's a whole lot of chiplets. Explains some of the 3900x supply issues. Mark can explain the rest. ;-)

 

[TheGiant]

can it run crysis?

 

[misuspita]

At 2.2 Jiggahurtz, not smooth enough

 

[DrMrLordX]

can it run crysis?

For your prize, your name will be stenciled in 7nm font on one of the chiplets in ARCHER2. Good luck finding out which one.

 

[TheGiant]

For your prize, your name will be stenciled in 7nm font on one of the chiplets in ARCHER2. Good luck finding out which one.

with those thread OFC I Won, I literally cinebenched lots of internetz
but sadly, there are not enough threads left to run crysis /sigh

 

[DrMrLordX]

with those thread OFC I Won, I literally cinebenched lots of internetz
but sadly, there are not enough threads left to run crysis /sigh

That's because someone is mining XMR on the thing. Too bad.

 

[VirtualLarry]

That's because someone is mining XMR on the thing. Too bad.

Sorry.

 

[DrMrLordX]

Sorry.

Hey at least you aren't buying up all the cheap RX 5700s. We all know how upset people get over that.