The Top 500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers was announced today, and AMD continues its impressive streak with 121 systems, a 29 percent increase over the previous year. In addition, AMD maintains its position in the Top 500 with its Frontier supercomputer, while the test and development system based on the same architecture continues to rank second in the Green 500 list in power efficiency measurements. Overall, AMD powers seven of the top ten systems on the Green 500 list.AMD becomes unrivaled in supercomputers
AMD-powered Frontier remains the only fully-qualified exascale-class supercomputer on the planet as the Intel-powered two-exascale Aurora still hasn’t been built after years of delay. In contrast, Frontier is now fully operational and used by researchers in numerous scientific workloads.
Meanwhile, the Frontier supercomputer entered the Top 500 list in June 2022 with a performance of 1.02 exaflops. However, the system is constantly being updated. With the last update, an extra 92 petaflops of performance was added to the system. With this addition, Frontier’s processing power increased by 17 percent to 1,194 exaflops. Currently, the Frontier system has 8,699,904 CPU cores.
These numbers may sound meaningless without a comparison. The processing power of the entire Perlmutter supercomputer, which ranks eighth in the Top 500, is as much as 92 petaflops added to Frontier. Even the second-ranked Supercomputer Fugaku has less than half the processing power of Frontier. Being at the top of the Top 500 is a significant milestone, but most other AMD-supported systems top the list as well. Supercomputers powered by AMD CPUs continue to hold four of the top ten spots, while Intel and IBM power two of the top ten. AMD also powers 12 of the 20 fastest systems in the world.AMD’s continued success in Top 500, Green 500, HPCG and HLP-MXP benchmarks and its 50 percent share in newly installed systems clearly shows that its CPUs have a performance advantage over their competitors. While the Intel-powered Aurora continues to be built, AMD’s next step will be the 2-exaflop El Capitan supercomputer, which is expected to take the #1 spot from Frontier. This system will be powered by AMD’s revolutionary Instinct MI300 silicon, which blends CPUs and GPUs in the same processor package, creating an exascale APU. This system is expected to be operational in late 2023.
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