Top500 List Shows AMD Leading With 121 Supercomputers In Its Bag, 168 Powered By NVIDIA GPUs

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Top500 just released its June 2023 statistics for the top supercomputers in the world powered by AMD, NVIDIA & Intel chips.

As per the latest figures, it looks like NVIDIA GPUs are powering the bulk of the supercomputers in the Top500 list with a total of 168 systems while AMD's CPUs and GPUs power a total of 121 super computers. At the same time, Supercomputers housing AMD and NVIDIA GPU-based accelerators are largely running Intel CPUs which cover around 400 supercomputers and that's a huge figure & while the number of systems running Intel CPUs are in a clear lead in quantity, AMD actually wins the crown for the fastest supercomputer around in the form of Frontier.

AMD bagged a total of 4 of the top 10 supercomputers in the world while NVIDIA bagged 5 and Intel only managed to bag one win with the Tianhe-2A. The Green500 list was slightly different as AMD led with 7 out of 10 wins, NVIDIA at 3, and Intel with just one though that was also the most efficient combined with NVIDIA's H100 GPUs (Henri / US).

Press Release: Increasing its HPL score from 1.02 Eflop/s in November 2022 to an impressive 1.194 Eflop/s on this list, Frontier was able to improve upon its score after a stagnation between June 2022 and November 2022. Considering exascale was only a goal to aspire to just a few years ago, a roughly 17% increase here is an enormous success. Additionally, Frontier earned a score of 9.95 Eflop/s on the HLP-MxP benchmark, which measures performance for mixed-precision calculation.

This is also an increase over the 7.94 EFlop/s that the system achieved on the previous list and is nearly 10 times more powerful than the machine’s HPL score. Frontier is based on the HPE Cray EX235a architecture and utilizes AMD EPYC 64C 2GHz