Amd Epyc Delivers Excellent Performance for Hpc Workloads

AMD EPYC DELIVERS EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE FOR HPC WORKLOADS

AMD EPYC, with industry-leading core count1 and memory bandwidth enables HPC performance enhancements. AMD EPYC Processor 8–32 CORES ACCELERATION IS EVERYTHING WHY AMD EPYC FOR HPC? x16 x16 x16 x16 Once the domain of scientists, high-performance The AMD EPYC™ processor family balances the ratios computing (HPC) workloads are used by many of cores, memory, I/O bandwidth, and deploys security organizations, from oil and gas companies and financial features embedded in silicon to achieve optimized institutions to weather and climate modeling services, performance for today’s HPC applications. genome sequencing companies, and universities. These innovative applications require the capability to process ENHANCED CORE DENSITY very large data sets and quickly run compute-intensive {{Suports 8-32 cores per socket to deliver massively 2 TB OF MEMORY models and analysis techniques. parallel performance x16 x16 x16 x16 CHANNELS 8 MEMORY {{Offers more cores in the same space as other 1RU 128 LANES OF PCIe BANDWIDTH IT INFRASTRUCTURE and 2RU servers {{ SYSTEM-ON-CHIP (SOC) DESIGN CHALLENGES FOR HPC UP TO 33% MORE MEMORY BANDWIDTH2 {{ UP TO 32 CORES Although processor and system technology improved {{Uses 8 memory channels to speed the flow of data incrementally over the last decade, there haven’t been into and out of the CPU {{ UP TO 16 DIMMS (2 TB) OF MEMORY core architectural advancements to efficiently support {{Virtually eliminates memory bottlenecks and PER SOCKET HPC workloads. Even with modern systems, HPC unlocks application performance {{ 8 MEMORY CHANNELS FOR UP TO 33% workloads continue to be challenged by: HIGHLY SCALABLE I/O MORE BANDWIDTH2 {{Insufficient memory bandwidth to keep CPU {{Offers up to 128 lanes of PCIe® bandwidth without {{ 128 LANES OF PCIE® BANDWIDTH compute engines occupied the need for a switch {{Supports high-bandwidth network interfaces, giving {{ SERVER CONTROLLER HUB {{Inadequate core density, requiring massive scale-out HPC workloads quick access to data solutions to complete HPC tasks {{ DEDICATED, EMBEDDED SECURITY {{Directly attaches up to 32 NVMe or SATA devices to PROCESSOR WITH SECURE BOOT AND {{Growing need for GPU acceleration for highly optimize I/O and efficiently handle storage needs. FULL MEMORY ENCRYPTION THROUGH parallel workloads EMBEDDED SECURITY PROCESSOR ON-CHIP MEMORY CONTROLLERS {{Poorly optimized I/O {{Full memory encryption with no changes needed {{Lack of data security during computation to your applications {{Secure root-of-trust technology to securely boot software

CONSISTENT FEATURE SET OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE {{Simultaneous multithreading (SMT), 8 memory channels, and 128 PCIe® lanes across SKUs. {{DRAMATIC IMPROVEMENT FOR 76% better performance than the {{Balance of compute capabilities and economics MEMORY-BOUND HPC APPLICATIONS. Intel Xeon processor E5-2699 v4 without sacrificing features. on the Ansys Fluent benchmark.4 SCALABILITY FOR HPC WORKLOADS

Best 2-socket system score on the BASE MAX DDR PCIe {{WORLD-RECORD FLOATING-POINT SPECrate®2017_fp_base and CORES / FREQ. FREQ. Gen3 TDP PERFORMANCE. SPECfp®_rate2006 benchmarks.5 MODEL THREADS (GHz) (1DPC) Lanes (W)

7601 32 / 64 2.20 2666 128 180

7551 32 / 64 2.00 2666 128 180 AMD EPYC Outperforms the Intel Xeon {{EXCEPTIONAL BANDWIDTH AS MEASURED processor E5-2690 v4 By Up to 146% 7501 32 / 64 2.00 2400/2666 128 155/170 BY THE STREAM BENCHMARK. (2P vs. 2P) on the TRIADD Component3 7451 24 / 48 2.30 2666 128 180

7401 24 / 48 2.00 2400/2666 128 155/170

2 x SuperMicro AS-1123US-TR4 servers each with 2 EYPC 7601 SoCs, 16 x 7351 16 / 32 2.40 2400/2666 128 155/170 32GB DDR4-2666MHz, 4 x Samsung PM863a 480GB SSDs and 1 x Mellanox FOOTNOTES ConnectX 5 EDR IB NIC, Windows Server 2016, and servers connected via 1. AMD EPYC™ processor includes up to 32 CPU cores versus the Xeon E5- a Mellanox SB770 switch completed the test in 108.962 seconds; versus 7301 16 / 32 2.20 2400/2666 128 155/170 2699A v4 processor with 22 CPU cores. NAP-02 2 x Intel R1208WT2GSR servers each with 2 E5-2699 v4 processors, 16 x 2. AMD EPYC 7601 processor supports up to 8 channels of DDR4-2667, versus 32GB DDR4-2666MHz, 4 x Samsung PM863a 480GB SSDs and 1 x Mellanox 7281 16 / 32 2.10 2400/2666 128 155/170 the Xeon Platinum 8180 processor at 6 channels of DDR4-2667. NAP-42 ConnectX 5 EDR IB NIC, Windows Server 2016, and servers connected via a Mellanox SB770 switch completion in 192.501 seconds. NAP-18 3. 2-socket AMD EPYC 7601 delivers up to 146% more memory bandwidth 7251 8 / 16 2.10 2400 128 120 than 2-socket Intel E5-2690 v4. Based on AMD internal testing on STREAM 5. Result available at https://www.spec.org/cpu2017/results/res2017q4/ Triad, 2 x EPYC 7601 CPU in AMD “Ethanol” reference system, Ubuntu cpu2017-20171031-00366.html on November 20, 2017. World record 16.04, Open64 v4.5.2.1 compiler suite, 512 GB (16 x 32GB 2Rx4 PC4-2666) floating point performance claim based on SPECrate®2017_fp_base score memory, 1 x 500 GB SSD scored 290; versus 2 x E5-2690 v4 CPU in Intel of 257 being the highest 2P result published on http://www.spec.org as of Server System R1208WT2GSR, Ubuntu 16.04, GCC-02 v6.3 compiler, 256 November 20, 2017. Result available at https://www.spec.org/cpu2006/ FOR MORE INFORMATION GB (8 x 32GB 2Rx4 PC4-2666 running at 2400) memory, 1 x 500 GB SSD results/res2017q4/cpu2006-20171031-50476.html on November 20, 2017. scored 118. NAP-22 World record floating point performance claim based on SPECfp®_rate2006 For more information visit amd.com/EPYC. 4. AMD internal testing using Ansys Fluent v18 simulating turbulence over an score of 1980 being the highest 2P result published on http://www.spec.org airplane wing and fuselage, using 14 million cell model and 20 iterations. as of November 20, 2017.

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