amd today announced that they have joined lawrence livermore national laboratory llnl and hpe to build the upcoming exascale class supercomputer el capitan at llnl el captain will be the worlds fastest supercomputer and will be powered by nextgeneration amd epyc cpus amd radeon instinct gpus and opensource amd rocm heterogeneous computing softwarethe supercomputer will have more than 2 exaflops of doubleprecision performance and will support national nuclear security administration requirements for safety security and reliability of the nations nuclear stockpileamd will also optimise the nextgeneration epyc chips and radeon instinct gpus for enhanced artificial intelligence ai and machine learning ml workloads which will enable the expanded use of ai and ml into the research computational techniques and analysis that benefits nnsa missionsel capitan will drive unprecedented advancements in hpc and ai powered by the nextgeneration amd epyc cpus and radeon instinct gpus said forrest norrod senior vice president and general manager datacenter and embedded systems group amd building on our strong foundation in highperformance computing and adding transformative coherency capabilities amd is enabling the nnsa trilab communityllnl and the los alamos and sandia national laboratoriesto achieve their missioncritical objectives and contribute new ai advancements to the industry we are extremely proud to continue our exascale work with hpe and nnsa and look forward to the delivery of the most powerful supercomputer in the world expected in early 2023in addition to this amd is also working on enhancing the existing cpus and gpus for maximum performance and ease of use the nextgeneration amd epyc processors will feature zen 4 processor core and also support nextgeneration memory technologies and io subsystems for different workloads the radeon instinct gpus will come with nextgeneration will use upgraded high bandwidth memory and optimum deep learning performanceamd is using its 3rd generation amd infinity architecture that allows them to enable highbandwidth low latency connection between one amd epyc cpu and four radeon instinct gpus in each node of el capitan the 3rd generation infinity architecture also features unified memory across cpu and gpu which helps clock maximum performance this unprecedented computing capability powered by advanced cpu and gpu technology from amd will sustain americas position on the global stage in high performance computing and provide an observable example of the commitment of the country to maintaining an unparalleled nuclear deterrent said llnl lab director bill goldstein todays news provides a prime example of how government and industry can work together for the benefit of the entire nationwe are pleased to partner with amd to bring together hpes cray shasta architecture with latest amd epyc cpus and radeon instinct gpus and provide leadership technology in support of the mission critical hpc and ai workloads for lawrence livermore national laboratory said peter ungaro senior vice president and general manager hpc and mission critical solutions mcs at hpe in our three us exascale wins this last year which includes the us department of energys frontier at oak ridge national laboratory the hpe systems and technologies along with amd