AMD said this week that it had started initial shipments of its next-generation Instinct compute GPUs based on the CDNA2 architecture. These aren’t the sort of GPU you’d find in the best graphics cards. Instead, the new Instinct MI200 compute accelerator carries 128GB of HBM2E memory and is designed for supercomputers and other high-performance computing…
Pawsey’s new research supercomputer Setonix will be housing the latest and greatest processing nodes from AMD, including AMD’s yet unannounced Instinct MI200 CDNA GPUs, featuring 128 GB of HBM2E memory. Making Setonix the second supercomputer in the world to feature AMD’s MI200 GPUs. The MI200 hasn’t even been announced yet by AMD, but thanks to…
AMD is not going to talk about its next-generation Instinct MI200 compute GPU for a several months, but its Linux patches continue to disclose new features and capabilities of this upcoming products. As it turns out, the GPU that is set to used for the Frontier exascale supercomputer (to be delivered this year) will have a rather monstrous…
A recent Linux patch posted by AMD reveals that the company’s Instinct MI200 next-generation compute GPU, codenamed ‘Aldebaran,’ will use a multi-chip module (MCM) design. That means the GPU will come with two dies in a single chip package instead of the single die we’re accustomed to with standard GPUs. The accelerator is based on…