Claim Substantiation: 

  1. Result available at https://www.spec.org/cpu2017/results/res2018q2/cpu2017-20180319-04087.html. Based on SPEC CPU 2017 scores published on 19 April 2018. 2 x EPYC 7601 CPU in Supermicro A+ Server 4023S-TRT, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 (x86_64) kernel 4.4.114-94.11-default, AOCC v1.0.0 compiler, 1 TB (16 x 64GB 4Rx4 PC4-2666V-L) memory, 1 x 500 GB SATA III 7200RPM has a peak score of 279 (base score 267). SPEC and SPECrate are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. See www.spec.org for more information. NAP-96
  2. Estimates based on SPECfp®_rate_base2017 using the GCC-02 v7.2 compiler. AMD- based system scored 201 in tests conducted in AMD labs using an “Ethanol” reference platform configured with 2 x AMD EPYC 7601 SOC’s ($4200 each at AMD 1 ku pricing), 512GB memory (16 x 32GB 2R DDR4 2666MHz), Ubuntu 17.04, BIOS 1002E.  Intel- based Supermicro SYS-1029U-TRTP server scored 164 in tests conducted by AMD, configured with 2 x 8160 CPU’s (2 x $4702 each per ark.intel.com), 768GB memory (24 x 32GB 2R DDR4 2666MHz), SLES 12 SP3 4.4.92-6.18-default kernel, BIOS set to Extreme performance setting. SPEC® and the benchmark SPECfp® are registered trademarks of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Learn more at www.SPEC.com NAP-77
  3. A system based on a single AMD EPYC 7401P processor delivers more cores, more memory capacity, and more PCIe® 3.0 Lanes than a system using 2 Intel Xeon Silver 4114 processors. Estimates based on SPECfp®_rate_base2017 using the GCC-02 v7.2 compiler. AMD-based system scored 100, in tests conducted in AMD labs using an “Ethanol” reference platform configured with 1 x AMD EPYC 7551P SOC, 256GB memory (8 x 32GB 2R DDR4 2666MHz), Ubuntu 17.04, BIOS 1002E. Intel- based Supermicro SYS-1029U-TRTP server scored 94 in tests conducted in AMD labs configured with 2 x Xeon 5118 CPU’s, 768GB memory (24*32GB 2R DDR4 2666MHz running at 2400MHz), SLES 12 SP3 4.4.92-6.18-default kernel, BIOS set to Extreme performance setting. NAP-73
  4. Leading performance based on SPECrate©2017_fp_peak two socket results as of August 2018. More information about SPEC CPU® 2017 is available at http://www.spec.org. 
  5. A single AMD EPYC™ 7601 processor offers up to 2TB/processor (x 2 = 4TB), versus a single Xeon Platinum 8180 processor at 768Gb/processor (x 2 = 1.54TB). NAP-44 
  6. AMD EPYC™ processor supports up to 128 PCIe® Gen 3 I/O lanes (in both 1 and 2-socket configuration), versus the Intel® Xeon® SP Series processor supporting a maximum of 48 lanes PCIe® Gen 3 per CPU, plus 20 lanes in the chipset (max of 68 lanes on 1 socket and 116 lanes on 2 socket). NAP-56 
  7. Based on SPECrate®2017_fp_peak results published on www.spec.org as of April 2018. AMD-based system scored 279 on a Supermicro A+ Server 4023S-TRT configured with 2 x AMD EPYC 7601 SOC’s ($4200 each at AMD 1ku pricing), 1TB memory (16 x 64GB DDR4 2666MHz), SUSE 12 SP3, Supermicro BIOS 1.0b, using the AOCC 1.0 complier. Intel-based system scored 250 on a Cisco UCS C220 M5 server configured with 2 x 8180M CPU’s ($13,011 each per ark.intel.com), 384GB memory (24*16GB 2R DDR4 2666MHz), SLES 12 SP2, BIOS v3.2.1d, using the ICC 18.0.0.128 complier. NAP-99
  8. Analysis done by EPYC TCO Comparison Tool, May 2018, to support 1500 virtual machines. Individual results for total cost savings may vary depending on user inputs or needs, cost variables, and other elements affecting this TCO analysis. Server Configurations used for this analysis: AMD server configuration -2 x AMD EPYC 7601, 24 x 32GB DDR4 2666MHz DIMMs, 2 x 512 GB SATA SSD. Intel server configuration: 2 x Skylake 8180 , 24 x 32GB DDR4 2666MHz DIMMs, 2 x 512 GB SATA SSD. Pricing is based on internet list prices. Base system cost is based on industry averages. For a 1 socket system, the base is $2,200 and a 2 socket system base is $2,500. Memory and storage pricing is based on averages of internet list prices. The default for maximum power to the rack is based on AFCOM segments of low (up to 4kW), medium (5kW to 8kW), high (8kW to 15kW) and extreme (more than 16kW per rack average). 8kW was chosen as an average of the 4 segments. Processor power is based on published TDP. Memory power draw assumes 7w per GB storage power draw assumes 3.0 per drive. This is an average of the type and quantity of drives in the server. NVME assumes a 1.5W power draw, SAS assumes a 3W power draw, SATA SSD assumes a 3W power draw and SATA assumes a 6W power draw. IT Admin salary is an industry average using $135,000 based and is scaled based on Alinean research by industry and country. Then a burden of 36% is applied to the salary to give a fully burdened salary rate.
  9. Based on 1 virtual machine per core, comparing servers powered by the AMD EPYC 7601 (32 cores per socket) vs. servers with the Intel 8180 (28 cores per socket).
  10. AMD Result available at: https://www.spec.org/ cpu2017/results/res2017q4/cpu2017-20171114- 00845.html. 2 x EPYC 7601 CPU in HPE ProLiant DL385 Gen10, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3, AOCC v1.0.0 compiler, 1 TB (16 x 64GB 4Rx4 PC4-2666V-L) memory, 1 x 300 GB 15k RPM SAS. SPEC and SPECrate are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. See www.spec.org for more information. NAP-68
  11. Source of pricing Configure your own TCO analysis https://roianalyst.alinean.com/ent_02/ AutoLogin.do?d=898755097515045746. HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 config: 1 x 6130 (16 Total Cores), 64GB Memory, 8 SFF Chassis, 2x800W PS, P408i-a; HPE ProLiant DL385 Gen10 config: 1 x 7451 (24 Total Cores). 64GB Memory, 8 SFF Chassis, 2x800W PS, P408i-a
  12. 1 socket AMD EPYC 7551P (32 cores) based servers vs. 2 socket Intel SP 5118 (12 cores each) based servers. Delivering 320 VMs with 1 core and 8GB RAM per VM. VMware licensing is by the socket. Solution requires 28 Intel based server sockets but only 10 AMD EPYC based server sockets servers. 100% - (10/28) = 64.3%
  13. 1 socket AMD EPYC 7551P (32 cores) based 1RU (rack unit) servers vs. 2 socket Intel SP 5118 (12 cores each) based 2RU servers. Delivering 320 VMs with 1 core and 8GB RAM per VM. VMware licensing is by the socket. Solution requires 28 Intel based server RU and only  10 AMD EPYC based server RU. 28 RU divided by 10 RU = 2.8

NAP-139: Testing conducted by AMD Performance Labs as of 31Jan2019 on an HPE Apollo am35 with 2 x 7371 AMD EPYC processors; 16 x 64GB DDR4 2666MHz LRDIMMs; 1 x Intel 10G X550T NIC, 1 x 1.92TB SATA-6GBPS SFF SSD, BIOS - 1.0b, OS - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation release 7.5 with a runtime in seconds of 2178.47;  versus runtime in seconds of 2220.59 on an HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 with 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6142 processors; 12 x 64GB DDR4 2666MHz LRDIMMs, 1 x Intel 10G X550T NIC, 6 x 400GB HPE SSD connected to a HPE Smart Array P408i-a SR Gen10 controller, 1 logical drive, RAID 5, BIOS - U30 v1.42, OS - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation release 7.5. Both systems running Synopsys VCS 2018: Version O-2018.09_Full64 performing a verification of simple graphics engine draw and asynchronous compute dispatch 64 jobs running simultaneously with 1 thread and 6 GB per job.

NAP-140:  Testing conducted by AMD Performance Labs as of 31Jan2019 on an HPE Apollo am35 with 2 x 7371 AMD EPYC processors; 16 x 64GB DDR4 2666MHz LRDIMMs; 1 x Intel 10G X550T NIC, 1 x 1.92TB SATA-6GBPS SFF SSD, BIOS - 1.0b, OS - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation release 7.5 with a runtime in seconds of 50475.5; versus 53957.5 runtime in seconds on  a HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 with 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6142 processors; 12 x 64GB DDR4 2666MHz LRDIMMs, 1 x Intel 10G X550T NIC, 6 x 400GB HPE SSD connected to a HPE Smart Array P408i-a SR Gen10 controller, 1 logical drive, RAID 5, BIOS - U30 v1.42, OS - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation release 7.5 running Cadence® Spectre Circuit Simulator, Version 16.1.0.479.isr9 32bit -- 7 Sep 2017, for 7nm analog design (3K transistors) 8 jobs running simultaneously with 8 threads and 0.552 GB per job.

NAP-141:  Testing conducted by AMD Performance Labs as of 31Jan2019 on an HPE Apollo am35 with 2 x 7371 AMD EPYC processors; 16 x 64GB DDR4 2666MHz LRDIMMs; 1 x Intel 10G X550T NIC, 1 x 1.92TB SATA-6GBPS SFF SSD, BIOS - 1.0b, OS - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation release 7.5 with a runtime in seconds of 5518.875 versus 6324.25 runtime in seconds on an HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 with 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6142 processors; 12 x 64GB DDR4 2666MHz LRDIMMs, 1 x Intel 10G X550T NIC, 6 x 400GB HPE SSD connected to a HPE Smart Array P408i-a SR Gen10 controller, 1 logical drive, RAID 5, BIOS - U30 v1.42, OS - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation release 7.5 running ANSYS RedHawk™ version 19.06p3 RHEL5 (Jul 28 00:53)

Dynamic IR analysis of 7nm 1,286K instance graphics design

8 jobs running simultaneously with 8 threads and 21.8 GB per job.

NAP-142:  Testing conducted by AMD Performance Labs as of 31Jan2019 on an HPE Apollo am35 with 2 x 7371 AMD EPYC processors; 16 x 64GB DDR4 2666MHz LRDIMMs; 1 x Intel 10G X550T NIC, 1 x 1.92TB SATA-6GBPS SFF SSD, BIOS - 1.0b, OS - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation release 7.5 with a runtime in seconds of 8333.625; versus runtime in seconds 9131.75 on an HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 with 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6142 processors; 12 x 64GB DDR4 2666MHz LRDIMMs, 1 x Intel 10G X550T NIC, 6 x 400GB HPE SSD connected to a HPE Smart Array P408i-a SR Gen10 controller, 1 logical drive, RAID 5, BIOS - U30 v1.42, OS - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation release 7.5 running Synopsys PrimeTime®: Version N-2017.12-SP3-2, Interface Logic Model description of 7nm full AI/compute SOC, 24M leaf cells, 8 jobs running simultaneously with 8 threads and 59 GB per job.

NAP-143:  Testing conducted by AMD Performance Labs as of 31Jan2019 on an HPE Apollo am35 with 2 x 7371 AMD EPYC processors; 16 x 64GB DDR4 2666MHz LRDIMMs; 1 x Intel 10G X550T NIC, 1 x 1.92TB SATA-6GBPS SFF SSD, BIOS - 1.0b, OS - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation release 7.5 with a runtime in seconds of  31118.125; versus 35605.875 runtime in seconds on an HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 with 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6142 processors; 12 x 64GB DDR4 2666MHz LRDIMMs, 1 x Intel 10G X550T NIC, 6 x 400GB HPE SSD connected to a HPE Smart Array P408i-a SR Gen10 controller, 1 logical drive, RAID 5, BIOS - U30 v1.42, OS - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation release 7.5 running Synopsys IC Compiler II™ (Placement): Version O-2018.06-SP4 Placement and ideal clock optimization. (place_opt command) of 950K instance 7nm tile from graphics design 8 jobs running simultaneously with 8 threads and 27 GB per job.

NAP-144:  Testing conducted by AMD Performance Labs as of 31Jan2019 on an HPE Apollo am35 with 2 x 7371 AMD EPYC processors; 16 x 64GB DDR4 2666MHz LRDIMMs; 1 x Intel 10G X550T NIC, 1 x 1.92TB SATA-6GBPS SFF SSD, BIOS - 1.0b, OS - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation release 7.5 with  18104.5 runtime in seconds versus 24229.25 runtime in seconds on an HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 with 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6142 processors; 12 x 64GB DDR4 2666MHz LRDIMMs, 1 x Intel 10G X550T NIC, 6 x 400GB HPE SSD connected to a HPE Smart Array P408i-a SR Gen10 controller, 1 logical drive, RAID 5, BIOS - U30 v1.42, OS - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation release 7.5 running Synopsys Finesim: Version N-2017.12-SP2 for transient analysis of 14nm mixed signal IP (100K transistors)

8 jobs running simultaneously with 8 threads and 7 GB per job.

NAP-145:  Testing conducted by AMD Performance Labs as of 31Jan2019 on an HPE Apollo am35 with 2 x 7371 AMD EPYC processors; 16 x 64GB DDR4 2666MHz LRDIMMs; 1 x Intel 10G X550T NIC, 1 x 1.92TB SATA-6GBPS SFF SSD, BIOS - 1.0b, OS - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation release 7.5 with runtime in seconds of 14038.5; versus 16923.125 runtime in seconds on an HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 with 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6142 processors; 12 x 64GB DDR4 2666MHz LRDIMMs, 1 x Intel 10G X550T NIC, 6 x 400GB HPE SSD connected to a HPE Smart Array P408i-a SR Gen10 controller, 1 logical drive, RAID 5, BIOS - U30 v1.42, OS - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation release 7.5 running Mentor Calibre nmDRC™:

Calibre v2017.3_18.12

7nm tile from graphics design with 82M flat geometries, 8 jobs running simultaneously with 8 threads and 59 GB per job.

NAP-146:  Testing conducted by AMD Performance Labs as of 31Jan2019 on an HPE Apollo am35 with 2 x 7371 AMD EPYC processors; 16 x 64GB DDR4 2666MHz LRDIMMs; 1 x Intel 10G X550T NIC, 1 x 1.92TB SATA-6GBPS SFF SSD, BIOS - 1.0b, OS - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation release 7.5 with runtime in seconds of 43024.875; versus 45787.625 on an HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 with 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6142 processors; 12 x 64GB DDR4 2666MHz LRDIMMs, 1 x Intel 10G X550T NIC, 6 x 400GB HPE SSD connected to a HPE Smart Array P408i-a SR Gen10 controller, 1 logical drive, RAID 5, BIOS - U30 v1.42, OS - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation release 7.5 running Synopsys IC Compiler II™ (Routing):

Version N-2017.09-SP5-T-20180606

Routing of 950K instance 7nm tile from graphics design

8 jobs running simultaneously with 8 threads and 31 GB per job.

NAP- 148: Testing conducted by AMD Performance Labs as of 31Jan2019 on an HPE Apollo am35 with 2 x 7371 AMD EPYC processors compared to  HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 with 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6142 processors;  on the EDA Applications below. Results may vary based on configuration, and testing data.

Format: [EDA tool / AMD CPUtime / Intel CPUtime]

VCS2018 / 2013.19 / 2116.59;

Primetime / 52801.75 / 58605.875;

Calibre / 108994.25 / 324322;

ICC2 Routing / 305006.125 / 324322;

ICCS Placement / 206331.625 / 247999.

Aggregate time:

AMD: 675146.94

Intel: 763985.46

763985.46-657146.94 =  88,838.52/763985.46 = .116 or 12% less time

Performance Content

1. Performance based on SPEC CPU® 2017 Integer Rate scores published on www.spec.org as of June 18, 2019. AMD EPYC 7551P 1P system scored 147, results found at https://www.spec.org/cpu2017/results/res2019q2/cpu2017-20190401-11608.pdf

Xeon 5118 2P system scored 123, results found at https://www.spec.org/cpu2017/results/res2019q1/cpu2017-20190108-10679.pdf

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2. Best-in-class based on industry-standard pin-based (LGA) X86 processors. EPYC-08

3. A single AMD EPYC 7601 processor offers up to 2TB/processor (x 2 = 4TB), versus a single Xeon Platinum 8180 (Skylake) processor at 768Gb/processor (x 2 = 1.54TB). NAP-44

4. One EPYC processor has 33% more memory bandwidth than one Intel Scalable processor in the same Class. EPYC-06

5. AMD EPYC processors have 128 I/O lanes.  One Intel Xeon Scalable processor has 48 lanes. 128 – 48 = 80 ÷ 96 = 1.66  AMD EPYC has 166% more I/O lanes. EPYC-14

6. Source: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-the-new-hb-and-hc-azure-vm-sizes-for-hpc/. Results not verified by AMD.

7. Source: Why Upgrade your Server Infrastructure now, IDC, July 2016. https://www.emc.com/collateral/analyst-reports/idc-why-upgrade-server-infrastructure.pdf. Third party testing not independently verified by AMD.

8. Based on standard calculation method for determining FLOPS. ROM-04

9. An EPYC 7742 powered 2P server scored 682, https://spec.org/cpu2017/results/res2019q3/cpu2017-20190722-16242.html August 7, 2019; an Intel Platinum 8280 powered 2P server scored 359,  http://spec.org/cpu2017/results/res2019q2/cpu2017-20190318-11210.pdf, July 28, 2019. ROM-125

Cost Savings

1. A cumulative annual growth rate (CAGR) of 30% in Intel pricing for top-bin processors for 2-socket servers is based on ark.intel.com prices and launch dates from 2012 to 2017 for the following processors retrieved 7/10/2018: Intel Xeon E5-2690 ($2,061), E5-2697 v2 ($2,618), E5-2697 v3 ($2,706), E5-2699 v4 ($4,115), 8180 ($10,009).

2. AMD EPYC™ processor supports up to 128 PCIe® Gen 3 I/O lanes (in both 1 and 2-socket configuration), versus a single socket Intel® Xeon® SP Series processor supporting a maximum of 48 lanes PCIe®  Gen 3 per CPU (maximum of 96 lanes PCIe Gen 3 in a dual socket ). NAP-120

3. Estimates based on SPECfp®_rate_base2017 using the GCC-02 v7.2 compiler. AMD-based system scored 100, in tests conducted in AMD labs using an “Ethanol” reference platform configured with 1 x AMD EPYC 7551P SOC, 256GB memory (8 x 32GB 2R DDR4 2666MHz), Ubuntu 17.04, BIOS 1002E. Intel- based Supermicro SYS-1029U-TRTP server scored 94 in tests conducted in AMD labs configured with 2 x Xeon 5118 CPU’s, 768GB memory (24*32GB 2R DDR4 2666MHz running at 2400MHz), SLES 12 SP3 4.4.92-6.18-default kernel, BIOS set to Extreme performance setting. NAP-73

4. Compares 3-year total cost of ownership for 1920 virtual machines of 1 virtual machine per core with 8GB of DRAM per core with similar performance.  (80) PowerEdge R740 Configuration Chassis with up to 8 x 3.5" SAS/SATA Hard Drives for 2CPU Configuration, with (2) Intel® Xeon® Gold 5118 2.3G, 12C/24T, 10.4GT/s, 16.5M Cache, Turbo, HT (105W) DDR4-2400, Performance Optimized Memory Capacity of (12) 16GB RDIMM, 2666MT/s, Dual Rank DIMMs, Hard Drives including (1) 120GB SSD SATA Boot 6Gbps 512n 2.5in Hot-plug Drive & (6) 480GB SSD SAS Mix Use 12Gbps 512n 2.5in Hot-plug Drives, No Operating System 3 Years Basic Hardware Warranty Repair: 5x10 HW-Only, 5x10 NBD Onsite Deployment Services, No Installation.  Configuration priced on 8/30/2018 at www.dell.com for $14,271 per server; $1,141,680 total Hardware Acquisition Cost.  Facilities and administration costs include $91,450 for power and cooling, $3,240 for space, and $231,549 for IT administration costs for a total of $326,239 over 3 years - calculated based on AMD EPYC™ TCO calculator at https://uatfast.valuestoryapp.com/AMD/sales.  SW Licensing costs include (80) vSphere with Ops Manager Ent Plus, 2 CPU License,5Yrs ProSupport + Subscription for $12.163 each for a total SW licensing costs of $973,040.  Pricing obtained at www.dell.com on 8/30/18.  Total 3 yr. Cost of Ownership of $2,440,959.  Total Cost per year per VM of $424. (60) PowerEdge R6415 Configuration Chassis with up to 8 x 3.5" SAS/SATA Hard Drives for 2CPU Configuration, with (1) AMD EPYC™ 7551P 2.00GHz/2.55GHz, 32C/64T, 64M Cache (180W) DDR4-2666, Performance Optimized Memory Capacity of (8) 32GB RDIMM, 2666MT/s, Dual Rank DIMMs,  Hard Drives including (1) 120GB SSD SATA Boot 6Gbps 512n 2.5in Hot-plug Drive & (6) 400GB SSD SAS Mix Use 12Gbps 512n 2.5in Hot-plug Drives, No Operating System 3 Years Basic Hardware Warranty Repair: 5x10 HW-Only, 5x10 NBD Onsite Deployment Services, No Installation.  Configuration priced on 8/30/18 at www.dell.com for $13,585 per server; $815,100 total Hardware Acquisition Cost.  Facilities and administration costs include $23,760 for power and cooling, $2,160 for space, and $171,518 for IT administration costs for a total of $197,438 over 3 years - calculated based on AMD EPYC™ TCO calculator at https://uatfast.valuestoryapp.com/AMD/sales SW Licensing costs include (60) vSphere with Ops Manager Ent Plus, 1 CPU License,5Yrs ProSupport + Subscription for $6,077 each for a total SW licensing costs of $364,620.  Pricing obtained at www.dell.com on 8/30/18.  Total 3yr Cost of Ownership of $1,377,158.  Total Cost per vm per year of $239. Hardware costs: $1,141,680 vs $815,100 = 29% less. Administration costs: $231,549 vs $171,518 = 26% less. Licensing costs: $973,040 vs $364,620 = 63% less NAP-104.

5. 384 virtual server comparison at 1 server core per VM.  A 1 RU one socket AMD EPYC 7551P has 32 cores.  A 2RU Intel based two socket server with two Intel 5118 processors has 24 total cores.  384 VMs requires 16 x Intel  servers and only 12 AMD servers.  Intel 1 socket 2RU servers take 32 total RUs where AMD 1 socket 1RU servers require 12 total RU. 32 / 12 = 2.6667, resulting in 2.7% greater VM density. NAP-110

6. Source: Amazon Web Services website https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/amd/. Third party data not verified by AMD.

7. AMD EPYC processor-powered Oracle instances are priced at $0.03 / Core Hour versus prices ranging from $0.06 to $0.1 for competing instances based on Intel from the major cloud providers.  The average core hour pricing for general purpose instances across the major cloud providers is $0.09.  The Oracle AMD pricing represents a 65% lower cost per core hour for comparable or better performance. These results have not been independently verified by AMD. NAP-124

8. Based on AMD internal testing of ANSYS FLUENT v19.1 benchmarks as of January 20, 2019 and Intel results on ANSYS FLUENT v19.0 published by ANSYS as of January 20. 2019. 206.8 Core Solver Rating on combustor_71m benchmark using 16 x AMD EPYC Processor model 7451 (24-core 2.3GHz) in 8 servers (2 processors per server), 256GB DDR4-2666 memory per server, Mellanox ConnectX-5 EDR 100Gb InfiniBand x16 PCIe per server, 1 x 256GB NVMe (OS storage) per server, 1 x 1TB NVMe (Data storage) per server, Red Hat® Enterprise Linux 7.5, MLNX_OFED_LINUS-4.3-3.0.3.1 OFED Driver, Mellanox EDR 100Gb/s Managed Switch (MSB7800-ES2F), ANSYS FLUENT v19.1, SMT=OFF, Boost=ON, Determinism Slider = Power, Transparent Huge Pages=ON, Swappiness=0, Governor = Performance
https://www.amd.com/system/files/documents/epyc-and-ansys.pdf
139.2650 Core Solver Rating on combustor_71m benchmark using 16 x Intel Xeon Gold Processor model 6148 (20-core 2.4 GHz) in 8 Cray XC50 servers (2 processors per server), Cray Linux Enterprise 6.0 update 07 based on SUSE 12 SP3, Cray Aries network, FLUENT AVX2 binary https://www.ansys.com/solutions/solutions-by-role/it-professionals/platform-support/benchmarks-overview/ansys-fluent-benchmarks/ansys-fluent-benchmarks-release-19/flow-through-combustor-71m

9. Source: https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2018-03-20-gartner-survey-reveals-business-value-or-benefits-realization-is-the-leading-it-cost-optimization-priority-for-cios

10. Estimates based on IDC Quarterly Cloud Infrastructure Tracker (June 2018). https://www.emc.com/collateral/analyst-reports/idc-why-upgrade-server-infrastructure.pdf. Third party data not verified by AMD.

Security Content

1. Source: Symantec 2018 Internet Security Threat Report, https://www.symantec.com/content/dam/symantec/docs/reports/istr-23-executive-summary-en.pdf

2. Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uThuZtttjpY

3. Source: “Trusting in the CPU: Getting to the Roots of Security”, 451 Research, June 2017 https://www.amd.com/system/files/2017-06/Trusting-in-the-CPU.pdf.  Report Commissioned by AMD.

4. Source: https://www.dellemc.com/en-us/campaigns/dell-emc/checklist-server-upgrade.htm  

5. Source: “The time frame of the [refresh] schedules usually ranges from three to five years, depending on the server classification”, Why Upgrade Your Infrastructure Now? https://www.emc.com/collateral/analyst-reports/idc-why-upgrade-server-infrastructure.pdf.

6. Source: “Two key security challenges are the notions that traditional security solutions often are not effective given the paramount priority of high-performance in HPC”, Inside HPC, 2017. https://insidehpc.com/2017/08/video-security-hpc-environments/

Footnotes

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