Are you or your customers looking to boost high-performance computing (HPC) workloads with greater performance, scalability and energy efficiency?
If so, then Supermicro and AMD have what you’re looking for. Together, they’ve demonstrated dramatic improvements in HPC workloads using a Supermicro system powered by AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs.
Compared with a CPU-only system, this AMD-Supermicro setup delivered double-digit performance gains. In benchmark tests, some HPC workloads that previously required months of simulation time were now completed in just days.
That’s because HPC workloads — especially those that are compute-intensive — can benefit from GPU accelerators.
The massive parallelism of GPUs enables faster iteration and higher resolution modeling. And accelerators such as the AMD Instinct MI355X transform traditional CPU-bound HPC clusters into GPU-accelerated supercomputing platforms.
Booming Benchmarks
The improvements can be dramatic for both performance/watt and time-to-solution. But how dramatic? That’s what AMD and SMC set out to discover.
To find out, they ran benchmarks on a liquid-cooled Supermicro 4U server powered by dual AMD EPYC CPUs and eight Instinct MI355X GPUs.
The AMD Instinct MI355X is a compelling solution for HPC applications, mainly because of its massive memory capacity (up to 6TB of DDR5), high double-precision (FP64) performance, and its support of the open-source AMD ROCm software ecosystem. These features enable it to handle extensive, complex scientific simulations and data-intensive tasks efficiently and at scale.
The benchmarks were generated using Chroma (software for quantum lattice field theory), Gromacs (software for molecular dynamics) and NAMD (molecular dynamics simulations). Here were the test workloads:
- Chroma QUDA BICGSTAB Clover Solver: Fast lattice quantum chromodynamics
- Gromacs ADH-Dodec: High-thruput for small and medium biomolecular systems
- Gromacs Cellulose-NVE: Biomolecular simulation of crystal structures
- Gromacs STMV Virus: Biomolecular simulation of plant virus
- NAMD large-scale MD: Molecular dynamics simulation with 1 million steps
Compared with CPU-only, results were delivered anywhere from 6x to 14x faster, depending on benchmark.
Are your customers looking for that kind of HPC advantage? Then tell them about this Supermicro and AMD solution.
Do More:
- Read the product brief: Supermicro and AMD together increase performance of HPC workloads using the AMD Instinct MI355X accelerator
- Check the test system’s tech specs: Supermicro 4U liquid-cooled system with AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs
- Learn more about AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs