HPE and AMD accelerate critical technical compute workloads for greater performance

[ComputeExperts]

Raising the bar for breakthrough performance on targeted compute-intensive workloads, this “out of the box” performance uplift is delivered with no application software changes. You simply upgrade your existing HPE Gen10 Plus servers with AMD EPYC 7003 Series processors with 3D V-Cache to receive a wide range of performance and productivity benefits.

Performance. Productivity. Flexibility. Security.

Looking for a new way to increase the performance of your Electronic Design Automation (EDA), Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), and Finite Element Analysis (FEA) software solutions to support more complex simulations and rapid designs? Searching for a high-performance CAE solution that is delivered on-premises, in a co-location, or as a service? HPE ProLiant and HPE Apollo Gen10 Plus servers powered by new AMD EPYC™ 7003 Series processors with 3D V-Cache meet your needs for performance and flexibility, while also boosting productivity and enhancing security.

Designed to accelerate critical product design and technical computing workloads such EDA, CFD, and FEA, this HPE and AMD solution vertically stacks the cache using AMD’s ground-breaking 3D Chiplet Architecture—offering up to 768 MiB of L3 cache per socket, while providing socket compatibility with existing AMD EPYC 7003 platforms.[1] The industry-leading 768 MiB of L3 cache keeps memory-intensive compute closer to the core, enabling you to complete more simulation jobs each day with the same number of cores.[2]

Raising the bar for breakthrough performance on targeted compute-intensive workloads, this “out of the box” performance uplift is delivered with no application software changes. You simply upgrade your existing HPE Gen10 Plus servers with AMD EPYC 7003 Series processors with 3D V-Cache[3] to receive a wide range of performance and productivity benefits, including up to:  

• 66% on EDA (RTL)
• 38% on CFD (Ansys CFX)
• 7% on implicit FEA (Dassault Systèmes Simulia Corp. Abaqus/Standard)
• 33% on explicit FEA (Dassault Systèmes Simulia Corp. Abaqus/Explicit)

Built on AMD’s industry-leading 3D Chiplet Architecture and utilizing 7nm process technology, AMD EPYC 7003 Series processors with 3D V-Cache use the industry’s first logic-stacking based on a copper-to-copper hybrid bonding “bumpless” chip-on-wafer process. This next-generation process enables more than 200X the interconnect densities compared to on-package 2D chiplet interconnects, and more than 15X the interconnect densities of other 3D technologies using solder bumps—which translates to lower latency, up to 2TB/s of high-speed bandwidth, and greater power and thermal efficiencies.[4]

With HPE ProLiant and Apollo Gen10 Plus servers powered by AMD EPYC 7003 Series processors with 3D V-Cache, you receive 3X the amount of available L3 cache—up to 768 MiB per socket—compared to standard EPYC 7003 CPUs.[5] AMD EPYC 7003 Series processors with 3D V-Cache utilize the same shared memory architecture as the rest of the 3rd Generation EPYC family but have three times as much L3 cache. This means you can take advantage of up to 96 MiB of L3 cache per core without sacrificing performance or choice.

Whether you choose HPE ProLiant DL325 Gen10 Plus v2, DL365 Gen10 Plus, or DL385 Gen10 Plus v2 servers or HPE Apollo 2000 or 6500 Gen10 Plus systems to run your EDA/CFD/FEA workloads, nothing stacks up to the leading performance, productivity, and cost-savings benefits you gain by using AMD EPYC 7003 Series processors with 3D V-Cache.

Benefits

• High density and throughput. Up to 64 cores per socket support large-scale virtualization, high-performance computing (HPC), and dense computing.
• Better core performance. AMD “Zen 3” architecture is critical for single-threaded applications and for maximizing per-core licensing.
• Greater I/O bandwidth. 128 PCIe4 lanes enable highly efficient and powerful I/O configurations.
• Higher L3 cache, with up to 96 MiB cache per core.[6] – Up to 768 MiB total L3 cache can enable super-linear scaling of EDA/CFD/FEA applications, helping to improve performance by reducing cache misses.

Why choose HPE ProLiant or HPE Apollo servers with AMD EPYC processors?

Depending on the type of computer-aided engineering (CAE) problems you need to solve (EDA, CFD, FEA), you can choose the right HPE Gen10 Plus servers for the job. HPE ProLiant DL325 Gen10 Plus v2, DL365 Gen10 Plus, and DL385 Gen10 Plus v2 servers and HPE Apollo 2000 and 6500 Gen10 Plus systems with AMD EPYC processors deliver a wide range of unique choices to help you optimize your high-fidelity CAE environment.

Regardless of which HPE Gen10 Plus servers you choose, you receive HPE and AMD’s latest innovations in security and performance—enabling you to protect your data, detect cyber threats, and recover from system failures:

• HPE Silicon Root of Trust creates an immutable fingerprint that verifies the system’s firmware code is valid and uncompromised.
• Secure boot ensures that any drivers launched during the boot process are digitally signed and validated against a set of trusted certificates securely stored in the BIOS.
• A dedicated AMD Secure processor is embedded in the AMD EPYC system on a chip; the processor manages secure boot, tying into the HPE Silicon Root of Trust at the firmware level and validating the HPE BIOS during the boot process.
• HPE’s secure supply chain ensures that all component vendors are vetted and sourced from Trade Agreements Act (TAA) designated countries.
• Exclusive HPE technology conducts daily checks of a server’s essential firmware to ensure that no criminal malware is inserted during the system’s verification process.
• In the unlikely event of a firmware breach, you can securely and automatically recover the server’s firmware to a previously known good state.

Find out more!

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Christina Austin Tiner is a veteran marketing leader in the Information Technology industry, having contributed to the server business for over 20 years. She has served in a variety of roles that include worldwide product management for Compaq and HP, director of product management for the Apollo line of HPC platforms, director of product management for Dell PowerEdge C servers, and group manager for the worldwide product marketing team responsible for the ProLiant enterprise rack server portfolio. She is currently the AMD Alliance Marketing Manager for HPE.

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[1] Processor compatibility with EPYC 7003 platforms may require a BIOS update.

[2] MLNX-001A: EDA RTL simulation comparison based on AMD internal testing completed on 9/20/2021 measuring the average time to complete a test case simulation. comparing: 1x 16C EPYC 7373X with AMD 3D V-Cache Technology versus 1x 16C AMD EPYC 73F3 on the same AMD “Daytona” reference platform. HPE internal Ansys CFX suite of standard CFD benchmarks and Dassault Systèmes Simulia Corp. Abaqus/Standard and Abaqus/Explicit benchmark suite testing were completed between February 16–20, 2022, using the HPE Apollo 2000 Gen10 Plus platform comparing the AMD EPYC 7543 2.8 GHz 32C CPU with 256 MB of L3 Cache and the AMD EPYC 7573X 2.8 GHz 32C CPU with 3D V-Cache Technology. Results may vary based on factors including silicon version, hardware and software configuration, and driver versions.

[3] Updating to the latest BIOS is always recommended when updating processors.

[4] Lisa Su Keynote, Computex 2021.

[5] MLNX-12: EPYC 7003 Processors with 3D V-Cache have 768 MiB of L3 Cache, while EPYC 7003 processors without 3D V-Cache have 256 MiB.

[6] With AMD EPYC 7003 processors with 3D V-Cache, every core is a member of a Core Complex Die (CCD). The shared L3 cache means any core can access all the L3 cache on the CCD. Even though the CCD might have fewer active cores, the total amount of L3 cache is still 96 MiB, so on any AMD EPYC 7003 processors with 3D V-Cache part, any single core can access up to 96 MiB of L3 cache.