U.S. Government Selects Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. To Help Engineer And Shape Future Of High Performance Computing

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc announced that it was selected for an award of $12.6 million for two research projects associated with the U.S. Department of Energy's (DONE) Extreme-Scale Computing Research and Development Program, known as 'FastForward.' The DOE award provides up to $9.6 million to AMD for processor-related research and up to $3 million for memory-related research. FastForward is a jointly funded collaboration between DOE Office of Science, and National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to initiate partnerships with multiple companies to accelerate the research and development of critical technologies needed for extreme scale computing, on the path toward exascale computing.