Six Steps to a More Energy-Efficient CAE Environment with Altair and AMD EPYC™ CPUs
Reducing the carbon footprint of modern high-performance computing (HPC) data centers isn't just important for the planet, it's critical to organizations' bottom lines. In this infographic, learn how Altair and AMD technology can make modern HPC data centers more energy-efficient and how organizations can make their computing operations more sustainable for the business and the planet.
1. International Energy Agency, November 2021 - Data Centres and Data Transmission Networks
2. As of 2/2/22, of SPECpower_ssj® 2008 results published on SPEC’s website, the 55 publications with the highest overall efficiency results were all powered by AMD EPYC processors. See https://www.amd.com/en/claims/epyc3x#faq-EPYC-028 for the list. More information about SPEC® is available at http://www.spec.org. SPEC and SPECpower are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. EPYC-028A
3. Includes high-performance CPU and GPU accelerators used for AI training and High-Performance Computing in a 4-Accelerator, CPU hosted configuration. Goal calculations are based on performance scores as measured by standard performance metrics (HPC: Linpack DGEMM kernel FLOPS with 4k matrix size. AI training: lower precision training-focused floating-point math GEMM kernels such as FP16 or BF16 FLOPS operating on 4k matrices) divided by the rated power consumption of a representative accelerated compute node including the CPU host + memory, and 4 GPU accelerators. More details at www.amd.com/en/corporate-responsibility/environmental-stewardship.
4, 5. See the article Breakthrough Performance with Altair and 3rd Gen AMD EPYC™ Processors with AMD 3D V-Cache™ Technology. A 1.8x throughput increase equates to a 44% server count reduction – 1-(1/1.8)) = 44%.
6. Calculations conducted by AMD Performance Labs as of Sep 15, 2021. See AMD Instinct MI250X product information for additional details.
7. See AMD Radeon™ Pro VII speeds up steady-state simulations with Altair AcuSolve.
8. See Altair Enlighten Award.