Amd will mount the cray shasta supercomputer for the us navy dsrc with 290,304 epyc cores

AMD continues to show its muscle to the world of computing, and yesterday won another great victory in the design that it proposed for the new supercomputer Cray Shasta that will be used by the DSRC of the United States Navy. Do not miss its specifications because they are heart attack.

To this will be added a total of 590 Terabytes of RAM and 14 Petabytes of useful storage. Of which, 1 Petabyte of solid state storage is included working on NVMe, which would come to be 1024 1 TB SSDs. A Slingshot network that makes up the Cray Shasta is the one that will ensure that all the components communicate with each other at a speed of 200 Gigabits per second (Gbps).

And why do they want such a beast? Well, among other things, the DSRC is a center that is in charge of studying and performing climate and ocean models by NMOC. This helps meteorologists and oceanographers to predict the environmental conditions that the Navy fleet will encounter. With it, they will try to improve the weather forecast models to in turn improve the prediction of the intensity and course of the hurricanes that hit the coasts of the USA. The USA is one of the main concerns of the country.

The Cray Shasta will be operational in early 2021, although this time we have preferred not to review it. It is not a secret that more and more organizations and companies are opting for EPYC processors for their servers and supercomputers.

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