AMD design win w/ Apple, will be featured in some Mac Books nx month.
Plus:
The new Blackmagic eGPU Pro is exciting because it delivers nearly twice the performance of the original model of the Blackmagic eGPU,” said Grant Petty, CEO, Blackmagic Design. “Whether you’re editing and color grading professional video with DaVinci Resolve, playing 3D games or working in VR, the Blackmagic eGPU Pro gives you the latest cutting edge graphics performance and computational acceleration available. It simply makes everything faster and makes everything look better!”
Blackmagic Design Announces Blackmagic eGPU Pro
And:
In tandem with Cray’s Shasta disclosures, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is announcing that NERSC, the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, has chosen a Cray Shasta supercomputer for its NERSC-9 system, slated for delivery in late 2020. Named “Perlmutter” (
after Nobel Prize winning astrophysicist Saul Perlmutter), the system will feature AMD Epyc processors and Nvidia GPUs offering a combined peak performance of ~100 petaflops and a sustained application performance equivalent to about 3X that of the Cray Cori (NERSC-8) supercomputer. The new contract, which includes a Cray Clusterstor storage system, is worth a reported $146 million, one of the largest in Cray’s history. (We’ll be reporting additional details of the NERSC-9 system soon.)
Cray Unveils Shasta, Lands NERSC-9 Contract
Might be in for a lil bump next week:
Presumably, this means the “Milan” kicker to next year’s “Rome” Epyc processors,
which are sampling now and which are expected to launch in 2019. AMD is expected to reveal some of the feeds and speeds of the Rome Epycs next week in a big shindig in San Francisco alongside its launch of the “Vega+” GPUs for its Radeon Instinct accelerators.
Berkeley Lab First In Line for Cray “Shasta” Supercomputers