Taking a page out of Nvidia's playbook.
From ExtremeTech, December 21:
One will use its new MI300, the other will be based on whatever AMD has ready in 2025.
The proverbial paint is still dry on AMD's new Instinct MI300 chips, and yet the company has already said they're being used for a new supercomputer in Germany. AMD has announced "Exascale Supercomputing Is Coming to Stuttgart" and will build two computers: one that will upgrade an existing system to 39 PFLOPS and a future exascale machine similar to its current Frontier supercomputer. The two machines will be known as Hunter and Herder, with the former coming online in 2025 and the latter poised for a 2027 launch.
The two new supercomputers result from a new contract signed by the University of Stuttgart and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. It will see the organization upgrade its existing Hawk supercomputer and install a second system in the future at the HLRS, which is a research institute and supercomputer center in Stuttgart. The big news here is this is the first supercomputer contract for AMD's all-new MI300A chip, which combines a CPU, GPU, and high-bandwidth memory onto the same package. These data center "APUs" will go into Hawk, the center's current flagship supercomputer at 26 PFLOPS, which is nothing to sneeze at. This computer debuted at #16 on the Top500 list in 2020, so it's neither old nor slow. That said, we certainly understand the itch to upgrade a PC, so there's no shade coming from this direction.
The center's Hawk system currently uses AMD Epyc "Rome" CPUs and Nvidia A100 GPUs, so it's cutting-edge for 2020. The new version....
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