>>WE ARE HERE AT THE ENTERPRISE, DATA CENTRE
SLASH SUPERCOMPUTER LAB
AT AMD'S SUNNYVALE HEADQUARTERS, WHERE THEY HAVE GOT
THE DEFINITION OF AN
ALL-HANDS-ON-DECK PROJECT GOING ON HERE.
THEY'VE PHONED IN THEIR TECHS, AND PARTNERS FROM AROUND
THE WORLD, EVEN MARK HURST, CORPORATE VICE PRESIDENT
OF RADEON TECHNOLOGIES GROUP, IS
GETTING IN ON THE ACTION, PLANNING THE POWER RUNS
FOR ONE OF THE MOST EXCEPTIONAL SUPERCOMPUTER
SYSTEMS EVER CREATED.
WHEN IT'S FULL OF 20 SERVERS,
THIS SINGLE
RACK IS GOING TO BE CAPABLE OF
ONE PETAFLOP
OF FULL PRECISION PERFORMANCE,
AND, AMD ESTIMATES - IT'S AN ESTIMATE,
THEY'RE NOT DONE BUILDING IT YET - THAT THEY'LL BE DOING THIS
AT AROUND HALF
THE COST OF A COMPETING SOLUTION
NOT TO MENTION MORE THAN DOUBLE THE FLOPS
PER WATT.
AND HOW ARE THEY DOING SUCH A THING?
AS CRAZY AS IT MIGHT SOUND,
AMD IS ACTUALLY LETTING ME ASSEMBLE
ONE OF THE SYSTEMS
I'M 'A SHOW YOU GUYS EXACTLY HOW
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>>SYNERGY ALLOWS YOU TO SHARE YOUR MOUSE AND KEYBOARD
BETWEEN MULTIPLE COMPUTERS AT ONCE.
CHECK IT OUT NOW AT THE LINK IN THE VIDEO DESCRIPTION.
>>SO PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING YOU GUYS SEE IN THIS ROOM
ARRIVED ABOUT 12 HOURS AGO,
AT 3:46 IN THE MORNING,
FROM AMD PARTNERS SUCH AS INVENTEC, SAMSUNG,
AND MELLANOX, AND HAS BEEN UNDERGOING ASSEMBLY
AND TESTING NONSTOP SINCE THEN.
SO IT CAN BE UNVEILED IN SIGGRAPH
IN LESS THAN A WEEK. SO THIS VIDEO IS AS MUCH
A BEHIND THE SCENES LOOK
AT THE HARD WORK THAT GOES INTO THE
GLITSY, POLISHED, SHOW DEMONSTRATIONS,
AS IT IS ABOUT THIS SYSTEM.
WHO AM I KIDDING? WE'RE HERE FOR THE BEASTLY HARDWARE
SO THIS IN FRONT OF ME IS WHAT AMD AND INVENTEC ARE CALLING
THE P47
AND IT'S THIS THAT ALLOWS THEM TO
CRAM UP TO 640
CPU CORES, THAT'S 1280 THREADS
IF YOU PREFER, UP TO 4O TERABYTES
OF MEMORY
AND UP TO 80 RADEON INSTINCT VEGA
GPUS, INTO A SINGLE
RACK, WITH SOME ROOM FOR HIGH SPEED
NETWORKING, LIKE INFINIBAND.
AT A TOTAL OF ABOUT 35,000 WATTS OF POWER CONSUMPTION,
THIS IS ABOUT AS POWER-DENSE AS YOU WOULD WANT TO GO WITH AIR COOLING
USING A REAR-DOOR COOLING SYSTEM
LIKE WHAT WE SAW AT THE SFU SUPERCOMPUTER RECENTLY.
SO LET'S TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AT IT.
AT THE FRONT, YOU'VE GOT SOME STORAGE BAYS
LIKE YOU'D EXPECT TO FIND FROM A SERVER
I DON'T THINK AMD OR INVENTEC IS EXPECTING ANYBODY
TO USE THESE FOR ANYTHING MORE THAN A BASIC SCRATCH DISK,
AND THEN ON THE BACK IS THE REASON
FOR IT, BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE THE
100Gbit INFINIBAND CONNECTIONS GO,
THAT HANDLE JOB-SHARING
BETWEEN SERVERS, AS WELL AS ACCESS TO
HIGH SPEED, DEDICATED STORAGE MACHINES
THAT ARE ELSEWHERE ON THE NETWORK.
MOVING INSIDE, AT THE HEART OF EVERY
P47, IS THE BRAND NEW
AMD EPYC SERVER PROCESSOR.
THIS ONE IS 32 CORES ON A SINGLE CPU,
WITH A 180 WATT TDP.
32 CORES AT 180W!
BUT THAT'S ACTUALLY NOT THE WHOLE STORY
BEHIND WHAT GIVES P47 ITS
STUNNING EFFICIENCY.
EACH EPYC CAN HANDLE UP TO 2 TERABYTES
OF DDR4 MEMORY, RUNNING IN AN 8-CHANNEL CONFIGURATION
AT SPEEDS OF UP TO 2666MHz
SO THAT'S GREAT FOR VIRTUALISATION,
RENDERING, AND MACHINE INTELLIGENCE
OUR MACHINES HAVE 512GB OF RAM
EACH, BUT,
AND THIS IS THE KEY, EACH EPYC CAN
HANDLE 128 PCI-EXPRESS LANES.
128 LANES!
SO THAT'S WHY A SINGLE EPYC CAN BE
HOOKED UP TO 6, OR EVEN 7, GPUS.
WITH A FULL PCI-E 16X GEN 3 INTERFACE DEDICATED TO EVERY ONE,
WITHOUT A NEED FOR A SECOND PROCESSOR
OR A PLX CHIP,
AND THAT'S WITH PLENTY OF BANDWIDTH LEFT OVER FOR HIGH SPEED
NVME STORAGE, OR HIGH SPEED NETWORKING.
AND ALL THAT'S CRITICAL, BECAUSE THE REAL
STAR OF THE SHOW TODAY IS THE RADEON INSTINCT MI25,
BASED ON AMD'S VEGA ARCHITECTURE.
THESE PUPPIES RIGHT HERE ARE ACTUALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR
THE BULK OF THE PETAFLOP
OF PROCESSING POWER.
EVERY MI25 IS A FULL FAT VEGA,
CONSUMING 300 WATTS, ACTUALLY
SIMILAR TO THE FRONTIER EDITION THAT ALREADY EXISTS,
AND THE RX VEGA THAT'S COMING SOON,
BUT UNLIKE THOSE, IT LACKS VIDEO OUTPUT ENTIRELY,
AND A FAN, SINCE IT WAS DESIGNED TO BE INSTALLED
IN SPECIALISED MACHINES LIKE THIS ONE,
WHERE THE COOLING IN INTEGRATED.
AND, THIS IS SICK, THE ENTIRE
16GB OF HBM2 MEMORY
CAN BE ACCESSED BY ANOTHER DEVICE
ON THE PCI-E BUS.
THIS ALLOWS HIGH-SPEED COMMUNICATION BETWEEN
DISCRETE RADEON INSTINCT MI25'S,
OR EVEN OTHER PCI-E DEVICES THAT ARE CONNECTED
TO THE SYSTEM, LIKE EVEN AN NVME STORAGE DEVICE.
AND THIS IS WITHOUT A PROPRIETARY CONNECTION
LIKE NVLINK.
AND ALL THIS HIGH SPEED COMMUNICATION ENABLED BY EPYC
WHICH YOU CAN KIND OF THINK OF AS BOTH
A CPU, AND THE WORLD'S BIGGEST
PCI-E SWITCH
IS AT THE CORE OF A NEW, OPEN SOURCE, ARCHITECTURE
THAT AMD IS CHAMPIONING, CALLED ROCM.
IN A NUTSHELL, THE IDEA IS THAT
EVERY PART OF AN ALL-AMD
SERVER SYSTEM IS LINKED AT EXTREME
SPEEDS, IN A NON PROPRIETARY MANNER.
SO THE USER CAN CUSTOMISE, AND
SCALE UP THEIR SUPERCOMPUTER AS THEY SEE FIT.
WANT MORE PERFORMANCE? JUST ADD MORE RACKS.
AND WHILE $50,000
MIGHT SEEM LIKE A LOT
FOR A P47, WHEN YOU CONSIDER THAT
AMD'S INITIAL ESTIMATES PUT THEM COMFORTABLY
IN A POSITION TO CLAIM BETTER PERFORMANCE PER DOLLAR
FOR MODERN WORKLOADS LIKE FINANCIAL MODELLING,
CLIMATE SCIENCE, AND AI,
NOT TO MENTION BETTER PERFORMANCE PER WATT,
YOU CAN SEE WHERE THEIR CONFIDENCE ABOUT
REALLY SHAKING UP THE TOP 100 SUPERCOMPUTER
LIST COMES FROM.
AND I WISH THEM THE ABSOLUTE BEST OF LUCK.
>>DO YOU HAVE TWO COMPUTERS FOR SOME REASON?
MAYBE ONE OF THEM'S PC, AND ONE OF THEM'S MAC OR LINUX, OR WHATEVER
WELL SYNERGY LET'S YOU SOLVE THE PROBLEM
OF HAVING SEPARATE KEYBOARDS AND MICE FOR THEM
ONCE AND FOR ALL.
YOU CAN SHARE ONE MOUSE AND ONE KEYBOARD BETWEEN TWO,
OR EVEN MORE COMPUTERS,
SO YOU'LL NEVER GET CONFUSED AGAIN.
THEY'VE GOT BASIC, AND PRO OPTIONS FOR SYNERGY,
WITH A ONE-TIME PAYMENT, AND FEATURES INCLUDE THINGS LIKE
CLIPBOARD SHARING BETWEEN THE COMPUTERS,
DRAGGING AND DROPPING FILES BETWEEN THE COMPUTERS,
THE ABILITY TO SET UP HOTKEYS, AND MORE.
USE OUR LINK IN THE VIDEO DESCRIPTION,
AND GET 50% OFF SYNERGY TODAY.
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>>SO THANKS FOR CHECKING OUT OUR VIDEO
HERE AT AMD'S SUPERCOMPUTER LAB,
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WHERE YOU CAN BUY THE STUFF WE FEATURED
AT THE LINK IN THE VIDEO DESCRIPTION.
ALSO THERE WE HAVE A LINK TO OUR T-SHIRT STORE, WHICH HAS COOL SHIRTS LIKE THIS ONE,
AS WELL AS OUT COMMUNITY FORUM WHERE YOU CAN GO AND TALK
ABOUT ALL THE COOL STUFF YOU SAW TODAY.