The system will be based on the HPE Cray EX supercomputer and will use a combination of the EPYC 7763 and EPYC 75F3 processors. The supercomputer is planned to be fully operational by 2022 and is expected to have a peak theoretical performance of 10 petaFLOPS, 8x faster than NSCC’s existing pool of HPC resources. Researchers will use the system to advance scientific research across biomedicine, genomics, diseases, and climate.

AMD EPYC product management vice president Ram Peddibhotla said that AMD EPYC processors were the leading choice for the HPC research that makes an impact on the world.

"We’re excited to work with HPE and the National Supercomputing Centre Singapore to help unlock scientific discoveries across medicine, diseases, climate, engineering and more.”

Last month, HPE was selected to build the new supercomputer for the NSCC Singapore and was awarded a $40 million SGD contract.  Along with HPE and AMD’s technology, the system will utilise 352 Nvidia A100 Tensor Core GPUs for HPC and AI workloads. 

The system will be housed in a data centre reportedly designed to increase sustainability and reduce energy consumption, with liquid-cooling capabilities to increase energy efficiency and power density by transferring heat generated by the new supercomputer with a liquid-cooled process.