AMD EPYC processors will be the basis for the Cray Shasta supercomputer for use by the US Navy, each boasting a grand total of 290,304 cores
According to one source, the Cray Shasta system will be deployed in the US Navy’s supercomputer center within the framework of a supercomputing modernization program, providing an estimated peak theoretical performance of 12.8 PFLOPS.
The basis of this supercomputer is the AMD EPYC (Rome) processor. The number of processors is not public, but the total number of cores will be 290,304. The processors will be supplemented by 112 general-purpose graphics processors (GPGPUs) built on the Nvidia Volta V100. The system configuration will include 590 TB of RAM and a storage capacity of 14 PB, 1 PB of which will be on solid-state drives with NVMe support. The Cray Slingshot network will connect the system components, enabling them to exchange data at a speed of 200 Gb/s.
One of the tasks that the US Navy supercomputers solve is the modeling of the climate and the state of the ocean, which aids military meteorologists and oceanographers in predicting environmental conditions that can affect naval forces. Ostensibly, the new supercomputer will help improve the accuracy of these forecasts. It is expected that it will be ready for launch by the beginning of the fiscal year 2021.
HOSTKEY also offers high-performance servers based on the AMD EPYC 7000 series processor. AMD EPYC processors offer a unique combination of record-breaking performance, the largest memory capacity and the highest I/O bandwidth. All this helps to achieve the maximum possible output in high-performance computing and this advanced technology aids in improving security and providing protection against a range of attacks at the hardware level.
HOSTKEY offers its customers server series based on 2xAMD EPYC 7451 CPUs, which have a balanced architecture for optimal performance
We offer servers based on the 2xAMD EPYC 7451, each CPU has 24 cores and a Max Boost clock speed of up to 3.2GHz.
Those servers are housed in our data center in the Netherlands. You can choose and order the configuration that suits you on the Hostkey website. The base cost of a server based on the 2xAMD EPYC 7451 is €343 per month. All our servers are protected against DDoS attacks.
EPYC shows the perfect balance of cores/threads, RAM, I/O bandwidth and security. Thanks to these impressive specs, application speed is accelerated and excellent performance is achieved with multiple workloads for high-performance computing.
Servers with 2 CPU sockets based on the AMD EPYC chip are flexible, powerful and secure — allowing them to efficiently deal with the most demanding workloads.
