HPC Parallel Performance for 3rd gen Threadripper, Xeon 3265W and EPYC 7742...
On March 19, 2020 I did a webinar titled, "AMD Threadripper 3rd Gen HPC Parallel Performance and Scaling ++(Xeon 3265W and EPYC 7742)" The "++(Xeon 3265W and EPYC 7742)" part of that title was added...
View ArticleAMD Threadripper Pro 3995x HPL HPCG NAMD Performance Testing (Preliminary)
Threadripper Pro! AMD has released the long awaited Threadripper Pro CPUs. I was able to spend a (long) day (and night) running compute performance testing on the flagship 64-core TR Pro 3995WX. In...
View ArticleIntel Rocket Lake Compute Performance Results HPL HPCG NAMD and Numpy
The new Intel Rocket Lake CPUs have been officially released. There were numerous posts and reviews before the official release date of March 30 2021, but I haven't seen anything about the numerical...
View ArticleOutstanding Performance of NVIDIA A100 PCIe on HPL, HPL-AI, HPCG Benchmarks
The NVIDIA A100 (Compute) GPU is an extraordinary computing device. It's not just for ML/AI types of workloads. General scientific computing tasks requiring high performance numerical linear algebra...
View ArticleNVIDIA 3080Ti Compute Performance ML/AI HPC
For computing tasks like Machine Learning and some Scientific computing the RTX3080TI is an alternative to the RTX3090 when the 12GB of GDDR6X is sufficient. (Compared to the 24GB available of the...
View ArticleIntel Ice Lake Xeon-W vs AMD TR Pro Compute Performance (HPL, HPCG, NAMD, Numpy)
The single socket version of Intel third generation Xeon SP is out, the Ice Lake Xeon W 33xx. This is a much better platform with faster large capacity 8 channel memory and PCIe v4 with plenty of...
View ArticleWSL2 vs Linux (HPL HPCG NAMD)
We've been curious about the performance of WSL for scientific applications and decided to do a few relevant benchmarks. This is also a teaser for some hardware-specific optimized application...
View ArticleAMD Ryzen 7950X Scientific Computing Performance – 7 Optimized Applications
This post presents scientific application performance testing on the new AMD Ryzen 7950X. I am impressed! Seven applications that are heavy parallel numerical compute workloads were tested. The 7950X...
View ArticleNVIDIA RTX4090 ML-AI and Scientific Computing Performance (Preliminary)
This post presents preliminary ML-AI and Scientific application performance results comparing NVIDIA RTX 4090 and RTX 3090 GPUs. These are early results using the NVIDIA CUDA 11.8 driver. The post...
View ArticleRyzen 7950x Zen4 AVX512 Performance With AMD AOCCv4 HPL HPCG HPL-MxP
This post is a first-look at performance of the Ryzen7 7950x CPU using the latest AMD compiler release with support for Zen4 arch including AVX512 vector instructions. Performance is tested using the...
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