13-04-2025 13:34 via tech.slashdot.org

New Supercomputing Record Set - Using AMD's Instinct GPUs

"AMD processors were instrumental in achieving a new world record," reports Tom's Hardware, "during a recent Ansys Fluent computational fluid dynamics simulation run on the Frontier supercomputer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory."
The article points out that Frontier was the fastest supercomputer in the world until it was beaten by Lawrence Livermore Lab's El Capitan — with both computers powered by AMD GPUs:
According to a press release by Ansys, it ran a 2.2-billion-cell axial turbin
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