AMD 64-Core Rome Deployment: HLRS ‘Hawk’ at 2.35 GHz

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Last week AMD pre-announced its next-generation EPYC processors, code-named Rome. These new processors are set to be officially announced next year, but will feature up to 64 cores using eight 7nm chiplets surrounding a central 14nm IO die. This week is the annual Supercomputing conference, focusing on high-performance computing, where all the big OEMs with server offerings as well as supercomputing centers get to promote their latest and greatest. One of them is the High Performance Computing Center based in Stuttgart, Germany, who disclosed some information about their new ‘Hawk’ system.

Supercomputers are measured in many metrics: processor type, cores, power, peak throughput, peak performance, interconnect, memory, and many others. The first supercomputer disclosed to be using AMD’s upcoming EPYC Rome processors is ‘Hawk’, based at HLRS, and set to be installed in 2019. The base systems will be developed by HPE, listed as HPE’s ‘Badger’ portfolio.

Details for Hawk were given by the HLRS Director, Prof. Michael Resch, at a talk at the AMD booth here at Supercomputing. The title of the talk was given as ‘AMD in a Large Scale Computing System for Science and Industry’, with a focus on HLRS as a local driving force for compute as well as the work it does. The requirements for the new Hawk system were listed as high performance, professional support/collaboration, lowest possible TCO, and high level of sustainability.

The key slide for us in the talk is this one.

Full reading: https://www.anandtech.com/show/13598/amd...at-235-ghz