TACC Unveils Stampede3 Supercomputer: Xeon Max With HBM Meets Ponte Vecchio

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The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) on Monday announced Stampede3, its new supercomputer that will be used for high-end simulations as well as artificial intelligence/machine learning applications. The new system will be based on Intel's Xeon CPU Max processors, with on-package HBM2E memory as well as Data Center Max compute GPUs.

"We will continue our long partnership with Dell and Intel and leverage the NSF investments in Stampede2 for this new science resource using the latest technology processors with high bandwidth memory, and making Intel graphics processing units widely available to the NSF open science community," said Dan Stanzione, executive director of TACC.

The new supercomputer uses the latest Omni-Path Fabric 400 Gb/s technology, with a 24TB/s backplane bandwidth for superior scalability and low latency for various applications that require highly accurate simulations.

In addition to Intel's latest hardware, Stampede3 is set to reintegrate Stampede2 nodes based of previous-generations Xeon Scalable CPUs for higher memory applications, high-throughput computing, interactive workloads, and other smaller workloads.

TACC says that the new system will use 1,858 compute nodes with more than 140,000 cores and more than 330 TBs of RAM, 13 PBs of new storage, and almost 10 PetaFLOPS of peak performance.  

TACC expects Stampede3 to be delivered in fall 2023 and will then go into full performance in early 2024. It will serve the open science community from 2024 through 2029.

Anton Shilov
Contributing Writer

Anton Shilov is a contributing writer at Tom’s Hardware. Over the past couple of decades, he has covered everything from CPUs and GPUs to supercomputers and from modern process technologies and latest fab tools to high-tech industry trends.

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  • jp7189
    Ravestein NL said:
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  • Ravestein NL
    jp7189 said:
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