AMD To Power Two Supercomputers In Germany: MI300A APU For “Hunter” In 2025, Exascale “Herder” In 2027
AMD has landed two supercomputer wins in Germany, powering the "Hunter" & "Herder" systems using its latest chips such as the Instinct MI300A.
The collaboration between AMD, HPC & University of Stuttgart is an effort to accelerate HPC & AI developments in the region, and the parties plan on unveiling two supercomputers, the Hunter, which is expected to reach functionality by 2025, and the Herder, which is an exascale system targeted for deployment by 2027.
Hunter and Herder are aimed at increasing the HPC & AI capabilities in the region to new heights, providing cutting-edge infrastructure for several industry applications such as artificial intelligence (AI), and high-performance data analytics (HPDA). The total combined cost for Hunter and Herder is expected to reach €115 million and will be funded by multiple government organizations.
Exascale #Supercomputing Is Coming to Stuttgart: Hunter will be based on the AMD Instinct MI300A accelerated processing unit (APU). This will slash the energy required to operate Hunter by approximately 80% at peak performance and will raise peak performance to 39 petaFLOPS. https://t.co/o6mv4xYdh5
— AMD (@AMD) December 19, 2023
Diving into the specifications of the Hunter supercomputer, it will feature an HPE Cray EX4000 supercomputer cabinet. It houses a total of 136 nodes, interconnected with four HPE Slingshot high-performance interconnects. The system will make full use of AMD's newly released MI300A accelerators which combine high-performance GPUs, CPUs, and HBM memory on a single chip package.
The integration of AMD's Instinct MI300A APUs will increase the peak performance of HLRS (High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart) to 39 petaFLOPS with Hunter, a huge increase from the
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