AMD Manages To Pack A PetaFLOPs Capable Super Computer In A Rack With Project 47

AMD recently unveiled something truly remarkable today – a server rack that has a total processing power of 1 PetaFLOPs. .. Here’s the kicker though: a decade ago in 2007, a computer of the same power would have required roughly 6000 square feet of area and thousands of processors to power. A decade ago, this would have been one of the most powerful supercomputers on Earth, and today, its a server rack..

Back in 2007, you would have found the same power in a supercomputer called the IBM Roadrunner. .. most powerful .. of its time and built by AMD and IBM for the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The cluster had 696 racks spanning an area of 6000 square feet and consumer 2,350,000 watts of electricity. The cluster consisted primarily of around 64,000 dual core Opteron CPUs and some accelerators.

So basically in a little over 10 years, AMD has managed to make a system that consumes 98% less power and takes up 99.93% less space.

..it is clear that the star of the Project 47 is the Radeon Instinct GPU...