AMD and Eviden announced their first joint project: the Alice Recoque supercomputer. While practically everyone knows the red team, Eviden is a manufacturer of controllers for Atos Group supercomputers.
The partnership’s supercomputer will use AMD’s next-generation EPYC ‘Venice’ processors and Instinct MI430X accelerators to achieve performance greater than 1 ExaFLOPS. The machine will cost more than half a billion euros and will be available to researchers working on scientific and Artificial Intelligence projects.
AMD’s EPYC ‘Venice’ processors come with up to 256 cores and next-generation Instinct MI430X accelerators are based on the CDNA 5 architecture and equipped with 432 GB of HBM4 memory. This memory comes optimized for HPC, but also supports FP4 and FP8 data formats, making it useful for AI.
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Towards the end of the decade
The complete Alice Recoque installation will consist of 94 racks based on Eviden’s BullSequana XH3500 platform with DDN storage. It will utilize the company’s BXI architecture to interconnect computing resources and enable high-performance, scalable connectivity.
The system should operate with approximately 12 megawatts during typical loads and will utilize Eviden’s 5th generation hot water liquid cooling system for all energy-intensive components.
Curiously, the Alice Recoque supercomputer will also feature Rhea2 CPUs for users who prefer to perform their calculations on processors developed in Europe. This is the first time we have heard about this CPU; previously, we had only heard about Rhea or Rhea1.
And considering that Rhea2 is not yet finalized, It’s only possible to speculate when these racks will be installed, but probably sometime towards the end of the decade.
From Europe to Europeans
The total cost of the project is estimated at €$544 billion (R$3.3 trillion)coming from EuroHPC JU, the Digital Europe Program and the Jules Verne consortium, which includes France (GENCI, CEA), the Netherlands (SURF) and Greece (GRNET).
The machine will be installed in France under the responsibility of GENCI, which will host the system, while CEA will operate it after its implementation.
Researchers and industrial users across Europe will be able to make use of it. The system will support a variety of projects, including climate research, materials and energy science, personalized medicine, AI model development, and analysis of massive data streams from satellites, telescopes, and IoT sources.
The official press release does not specify the commissioning or operation date of Alice Recoque. However, considering that AMD plans to launch its EPYC ‘Venice’ processors and Instinct MI430X accelerators in 2026, it is reasonable to expect the machine to come into operation in 2027 or 2028.
Source: AMD.
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