Comments on: HPE and AMD Powered Frontier Tops the Top500 Ushering in Exascale https://www.servethehome.com/hpe-and-amd-powered-frontier-tops-the-top500-ushering-in-exascale/ Server and Workstation Reviews Wed, 01 Jun 2022 07:45:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.3 By: Micah https://www.servethehome.com/hpe-and-amd-powered-frontier-tops-the-top500-ushering-in-exascale/#comment-484678 Wed, 01 Jun 2022 07:45:04 +0000 https://www.servethehome.com/?p=61351#comment-484678 This is so cool! Every time the national labs add a zero to the end of those computation numbers I just imagine them adding more variables to the models and simulations.

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By: fuzzyfuzzyfungus https://www.servethehome.com/hpe-and-amd-powered-frontier-tops-the-top500-ushering-in-exascale/#comment-484659 Tue, 31 May 2022 11:38:24 +0000 https://www.servethehome.com/?p=61351#comment-484659 @Jay; Hardware like this is undeniably in a different league; but IT gear is actually sort of interesting in that the consumer toy stuff is so close to the bleeding edge stuff; just in much smaller servings.

In terms of things like architecture and fab process; the fanciest Epycs you can buy don’t differ much from the chiplet-based Ryzens; and the MI250X is only slightly ahead, in process terms(TSMC 6nm vs 7nm) of Radeon and Radeon Pro parts; just a much bigger device with a lot more HBM.

Compare to, say, machine tools, where your harbor freight drill press and some big, mean, ITAR-controlled, aerospace CNC gear might as well be from different planets.

The biggest difference, as seems to be common with HPC, is interconnect; it is ethernet-based in this case; but the big cluster systems do tend to have genuinely somewhat exotic and atypically capable interconnects vs. consumer gear or even commodity datacenter stuff.

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By: Jay Kastner https://www.servethehome.com/hpe-and-amd-powered-frontier-tops-the-top500-ushering-in-exascale/#comment-484641 Mon, 30 May 2022 23:14:44 +0000 https://www.servethehome.com/?p=61351#comment-484641 Great article! Sad though is the realization that our high performance ” Personal Computers” are really consumer electronics and many years behind

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