The engineers behind the AMD Instinct MI300A APU have published their research on crafting the future of “exascale heterogeneous processing.” The MI300A is the processor at the heart of El Capitan, which is expected to become the world’s fastest supercomputer when it begins operation this year. It is projected to run at two exaFLOPS.
13 AMD scientists cooperated on the recent research paper establishing the ways and means to achieve exaFLOPS performance. The thread from X (formerly Twitter) above provides an excellent birds-eye view of the research process, posted by one of the paper’s authors. While the existence of the MI300A is undoubtedly not novel news, first becoming public knowledge in May 2023, the new paper presented yesterday at ISCA 2024 helps to shine a light into how the sausage is made — precisely AMD’s thinking that led them to prioritize APUs over dedicated GPUs for exascale computing.
