Performance
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This is the first story in a four-part series on blockchain’s many facets, including being the primary pillar of the emerging Web3. 

The Student Cluster Computing challenge made its 16th appearance at the SuperComputer 22 (SC22) event in Dallas. The two student teams that were running AMD EPYC™ CPUs and AMD Instinct™ GPUs were the two teams that aced the Linpack benchmark. That's the test used to determined the TOP500 supercomputers in the world.

To compete in the marketplace, enterprises are increasingly employing performance-intensive tools and applications like machine learning, artificial intelligence, data-driven insights and automation to differentiate their products and services. In doing so, they may be unintentionally backing into performance-intensive computing because these technologies are computationally and/or data intensive.

A video discussion between Charles Liang, Supermicro CEO, and Dr. Lisa Su, AMD CEO.  

The CPU package is configurable at time of purchase with various options that you can match up to the specific characteristics of your workloads. Ask yourself the three questions the story poses.

Energy company Petrobas, based in Brazil, is using high-performance computing techniques to aid it in its oil and gas exploration, especially in deep-water situations. Petrobas used system integrator Atos to provide more than 250 Supermicro SuperServers. The cluster is ranked 33 on the current top500 list and goes by the name Pegaso.

AI architecture must scale effectively without sacrificing cost efficiency. One size does not fit all.

The modern data center must be both highly performant and energy efficient. Massive amounts of data are generated at the edge and then analyzed in the data center.

Today’s data center has numerous challenges: provisioning hardware and cloud workloads, balancing the needs of performance-intensive applications across compute, storage and network resources, and having a consistent monitoring and analytics framework to feed intelligent systems management.

Last week, Supermicro announced its new H13 A+ server solutions, featuring the latest fourth-generation AMD EPYC™ processors.