AMD and NVIDIA Join Forces For DGX A100 - EPYC CPUs to Be Used in Workstation Supercomputers
One of the highlights of last night's Nvidia GTC 2020 was the inclusion of AMD's EPYC CPUs in their 'DGX A100' HPC device. The DGX A100 is the successor to their Volta Based DGX V100 claiming up to 20X performance increase.
The DGX A100 will feature dual AMD's 2nd Gen EPYC 7742 processors.
This equates to 128 cores running at 2.25GHz (base) and 3.4GHz (boost).
It is also important to note that AMD's EPYC CPUs are the only x86-based server processors to support PCIe 4.0 right now. This translates to 128 lanes of I/O per processor for high-performance computing and connections with Storage and GPUs.
The latest generation of AMD's EPYC processors coupled with their AMD Radeon Instinct GPU's also powers two of the world's fastest exascale supercomputers, the Frontier and El Capitan. This is in addition to a handful of other supercomputers as follows.
It is always exciting to see the Red and Blue teams working together like these APUs. However, it's even more so to see Red and Green team working together. As is the case with the DGX A100.
But it's been a pleasant surprise to see AMD claw it's way to HPC dominance. In other words, this will allow AMD's bull run to keep going. Especially as Intel's woes haven't seemed to come to an end in both the consumer and HPC space.
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