Azure Provides Excellent HPC Cloud Performance With HBv4 Series Powered By AMD EPYC Genoa-X

Written by Michael Larabel in Processors on 4 August 2023 at 03:00 PM EDT. Page 3 of 5. 7 Comments.
Laghos benchmark with settings of Test: Triple Point Problem. HBv4 was the fastest.
Laghos benchmark with settings of Test: Sedov Blast Wave, ube_922_hex.mesh. HBv4 was the fastest.
HeFFTe - Highly Efficient FFT for Exascale benchmark with settings of Test: c2c, Backend: FFTW, Precision: float, X Y Z: 256. HBv4 was the fastest.
HeFFTe - Highly Efficient FFT for Exascale benchmark with settings of Test: c2c, Backend: FFTW, Precision: double, X Y Z: 512. HBv4 was the fastest.
HeFFTe - Highly Efficient FFT for Exascale benchmark with settings of Test: c2c, Backend: Stock, Precision: float, X Y Z: 512. HBv4 was the fastest.
Pennant benchmark with settings of Performance Per Core, Test: sedovbig. HBv4 was the fastest.
ACES DGEMM benchmark with settings of Performance Per Core, Sustained Floating-Point Rate. HC was the fastest.
Intel Open Image Denoise benchmark with settings of Performance Per Core, Run: RT.hdr_alb_nrm.3840x2160, Device: CPU-Only. HC was the fastest.
Intel Open Image Denoise benchmark with settings of Performance Per Core, Run: RT.ldr_alb_nrm.3840x2160, Device: CPU-Only. HC was the fastest.
Intel Open Image Denoise benchmark with settings of Performance Per Core, Run: RTLightmap.hdr.4096x4096, Device: CPU-Only. HC was the fastest.

The HBv3 to HBv4 top-end upgrade is incredibly significant. Even with the top-end HBv4 instance costing twice that of the 120 vCPU HBv3, its price was justified and often was showing the best value of these HPC VMs.


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