We are here at the Enterprise Data
Center/ Supercomputer Lab at AMD's Sunnyvale headquarters where they have
got the definition of an all hands on
deck project going on here. They've flown in their techs and partners from
around the world. Even Mark Hurst,
corporate vice president of Radeon Technologies Group, is getting in on the
action, planning the power runs for one of the most exceptional supercomput
systems ever created. When it's full of
20 servers, this single rack is going to
be capable of one path flop of full
precision performance. And AMD
estimates, it's an estimate, they're not done building it yet, that they'll be
doing this at around half the cost of a
competing solution, not to mention more than double the flops per
watt. And how are they doing such a
thing? Well, as crazy as it might
sound, AMD is actually letting me assemble one of the systems. So, uh,
well, I'm going to show you guys exactly
how Synergy allows you to share your
mouse and keyboard between multiple computers at once. Check it out now at
the link in the video description.
So, pretty much everything you guys see in this room arrived about 12 hours ago
at 3:46 in the morning from AMD partners
like Invente, Samsung, and Melanox and
has been undergoing assembly and testing non-stop since then. So, it can be
unveiled at Sigraph in less than a week.
So, this video is as much a behindthescenes look at the hard work
that goes into the glitzy polished show
demonstrations as it is about this
system. Who am I kidding? We're here for the beastly hardware. So, this in front
of me is what AMD and Invente are calling the
P47. And it's this that allows them to
cram up to 640 CPU cores. That's,280 threads if you
prefer up to 40 terabytes of memory and
up to 80 Radeon Instinct Vega GPUs into
a single rack with some room for
high-speed networking like Infiniban. At
a total of about 35,000 watts of power consumption, this
is about as power dense as you would want to go with air cooling using a rear
door cooling system like what we saw at the SFU Supercomput recently. So, let's
take a closer look at it. At the front, you've got some storage bays like you'd
expect to find on a server. So, I don't think AMD or Invecting anybody to use
these for more than just like a basic scratch disc. And then on the back is
the reason for it because that's where the 100 gigabit Infiniband connections
go that handle job sharing between
servers as well as access to high-speed
dedicated storage machines that are elsewhere on the network.
Moving inside, at the heart of every P47
is the brand new AMD Epic server
processor. This one is 32 cores on a
single CPU with a 180 watt TDP. 32 cores
at 180 watts. But that's actually not
the whole story behind what gives P47
its stunning efficiency. Each epic can
handle up to two terabytes of DDR4
memory running in an 8 channel configuration at speeds of up to 2666
MHz. So that's great for virtualization
uh rendering and machine intelligence. Our machines have 512 gigs of RAM each.
But, and this is the key, each epic can
also handle 128 PCI Express
lanes. 128 lanes. So, that's why a
single Epic can be hooked up to up to six or even seven GPUs with a full PCIe
16X Gen 3 interface. dedicated to
everyone without a need for a second processor or a PLX chip. And that's with
plenty of bandwidth left over for high-speed NVMe storage or high-speed
networking. And all that's critical
because the real star of the show today is the Radeon Instinct
Mi25 based on AMD's Vega architecture.
These puppies right here are actually responsible for the bulk of that pedlop
of processing power. Every MI25 is a
full fat Vega consuming 300 watts.
Actually, similar to the Frontier Edition that already exists and the RX
Vega that's coming soon. But unlike
those, it lacks video outputs entirely
and a fan since it was designed to be
installed in specialized machines like this one where the cooling is
integrated. And this is sick. The entire
16 gigs of HBM2 memory can be accessed
by another device on the PCI Express
bus. This allows high-speed communication between discrete Radeon
Instinct MI25s or even other PCI Express
devices that are connected to the system like even an NVMe storage device. And
this is without a proprietary connection
like ND link and all this high-speed
communication enabled by Epic, which you can kind of think of as both a CPU and
the world's biggest PCI Express switch
is at the core of a new opensource
architecture that AMD is championing
called Rockum. In a nutshell, the idea
is that every part of an all AMD server
system is linked at extreme speeds in a
nonproprietary manner, so the user can
customize and scale up their supercomput
as they see fit. Want more performance? Just add
more racks. And while
$50,000 might seem like a lot for a
P47, when you consider that AMD's
initial estimates put them comfortably in a position to claim better
performance per dollar for modern workloads like financial modeling,
climate science, and AI, not to mention
better performance per watt. You can see where their confidence about uh really
shaking up the top 100 supercomputer
list comes from and I wish them the absolute best
of luck. Do you have two computers for some
reason? Maybe one of them's PC and one of them's Mac or Linux or whatever.
Well, Synergy lets you solve the problem of having separate keyboards and mice
for them once and for all. You can share one mouse and one keyboard between two
or even more computers, so you'll never get confused again. They've got basic
and pro options for synergy with a one-time payment. And features include
things like clipboard sharing between the computers, dragging and dropping
files between the computers, the ability to set up hotkeys, and more. Use our
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today. So, thanks for checking out our video here at AMD Supercomput Lab. And
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