PR AMD Expands High Performance Compute Fund to Aid Researchers Solving the World’s Toughest Challenges

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AMD Combines HPC Fund with Xilinx Heterogeneous Accelerated Compute Cluster (HACC) Program and Adds Seven Petaflops of Supercomputer Capacity to Power Groundbreaking Research
SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 01, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced the expansion of its High Performance Compute (HPC) Fund with the addition of 7 petaflops of computing power to assist global researchers working to solve the most demanding challenges facing society today. AMD also announced that the AMD HPC Fund will now integrate Xilinx Heterogeneous Accelerated Compute Clusters (HACC) program, providing researchers with access to AMD EPYC™ processors, AMD Instinct™ accelerators, Xilinx Alveo™ accelerators and Xilinx Versal™ ACAPs to advance research in areas including climate change, health care, transportation, big data and more.

The new contribution brings the total amount of computing capacity donated by AMD to over 20 petaflops with a market value of more than $31 million, as of May 2022. The additional computing resources will build on the AMD COVID-19 HPC Fund that was established in 2020 to provide research institutions with computing resources to accelerate medical research on COVID-19 and other diseases.

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