In the November 2024 edition of the supercomputer processing performance ranking “TOP500”, “El Capitan” won first place for the first time. The second place was also made by AMD.Frontier‘, five of the top 10 were AMD supercomputers.
November 2024 | TOP500
https://top500.org/lists/top500/2024/11/
El Capitan achieves top spot, Frontier and Aurora follow behind | TOP500
https://top500.org/news/el-capitan-achieves-top-spot-frontier-and-aurora-follow-behind/
AMD Accelerates Exascale Computing to New Heights Powering the Fastest Supercomputer Ever, El Capitan
https://www.amd.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2024-11-18-amd-accelerates-exascale-computing-to-new-heights-.html
El Capitan is a supercomputer jointly developed by AMD, the US Department of Energy, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), and is AMD’s high performance computing (HPC) and AI chip.Instinct MI300AIt is structured based on “. El Capitan is undergoing research and development with the aim of achieving processing performance exceeding 2 exaflops, and in November 2024, it recorded 1.742 exaflops and became the world’s best supercomputer.
The top 10 cars in the ranking are as follows. AMD supercomputers account for 5 of the top 10 computers.
| rank | name | Main manufacturers | Number of cores (pieces) | Effective performance value (PFLOPS) | Theoretical performance value (PFLOPS) | Power consumption (kW) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st place | El Capitan | AMD | 11,039,616 | 1742.00 | 2746.38 | 29,581 |
| 2nd place | Frontier | AMD | 9,066,176 | 1353.00 | 2055.72 | 24,607 |
| 3rd place | Aurora | Intel | 9,264,128 | 1012.00 | 1980.01 | 38,698 |
| 4th place | Eagle | NVIDIA | 2,073,600 | 561.20 | 846.84 | not clear |
| 5th place | HPC6 | AMD | 3,143,520 | 477.90 | 606.97 | 8461 |
| 6th place | Fugaku | Fujitsu | 7,630,848 | 442.01 | 537.21 | 29,899 |
| 7th place | Alps | NVIDIA | 2,121,600 | 434.90 | 574.84 | 7124 |
| 8th place | LUMI | AMD | 2,752,704 | 379.70 | 531.51 | 7107 |
| 9th place | Leonardo | Intel | 1,824,768 | 241.20 | 306.31 | 7494 |
| 10th place | Tuolumne | AMD | 1,161,216 | 208.10 | 288.88 | 3387 |
In response to the TOP500 results, AMD CEO Lisa Su said, “5 of the world’s top 10 devices and 21 of the top 50 devices are equipped with AMD products.We would like to thank HPE, LLNL, and the Department of Energy for their cooperation. ” he commented.
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