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This isn't entirely make sense to me, I thought AMD was very far behind on GPGPU. Do these supercomputer and data center projects use things like ROCm and OpenCL, and solve the software issues on their side? Does AMD compete on price there?

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The world's fastest supercomputer, Frontier at Oak Ridge, and the third fastest Lumi, in Finland are both exclusively made with AMD hardware.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier_(supercomputer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LUMI

There's lots of demands for AMD hardware in datacenters and supercomputers.

I didn't say it wasn't true I was just trying to say it didn't make sense to me. If you're trying to build a giant supercomputer it seems like you would pick something where the software works. But maybe they are using ROCm. It seems like that only works for the higher end stuff. Maybe they're planning on running stuff that's already been built on OpenCL, and AMD is competing on the price for the publicity.

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