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John Biebelhausen
AI Marketing | Go-to-Market Strategies | Content Creator | Cross-Channel Marketing | @NVIDIA
During its Capsaicin presentation at the SIGGRAPH conference, AMD showed off a new collaboration with Inventec called Project 47.
Based off Inventec's P-series massively parallel computing platform, Project 47 uses the new P-47 and AMD's EPYC CPUs and Instinct GPUs to infuse one PetaFLOP of processing power into a single server rack. Inventec designed the system to address a wide variety of workloads that span graphics virtualization to machine intelligence.
Specifically, there are 20 2U P-47 systems, and each houses a single EPYC 7601 CPU and four Radeon Instinct MI25 GPU accelerators. Each machine also has a half-terabyte of memory, and a Mellanox 100Gb InfiniBand router is built into the rack.
Project 47 can do one PetaFLOPS at full 32-bit precision and two PetaFLOPS at 16-bit precision. At full precision, this means the machine delivers 30 GigaFLOPS per watt, which AMD said is a better performance-per-watt and performance-per-dollar ratio than similar machines can offer.