Microsoft Azure HBv3 (Milan) versus HBv3 (Milan-X) benchmarking by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com. Looking at performance of AMD EPYC Milan-X in Microsoft Azure cloud for a variety of workloads.
Processor: 2 x AMD EPYC 7V13 64-Core (64 Cores), Motherboard: Microsoft Virtual Machine (Hyper-V UEFI v4.1 BIOS), Memory: 442GB, Disk: 2 x 960GB Microsoft NVMe Direct Disk + 32GB Virtual Disk + 515GB Virtual Disk, Graphics: hyperv_fb, Network: Mellanox MT27710
OS: CentOS Linux 8, Kernel: 4.18.0-147.8.1.el8_1.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 8.3.1 20190507, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1152x864, System Layer: microsoft
Kernel Notes: Transparent Huge Pages: always
Compiler Notes: --build=x86_64-redhat-linux --disable-libmpx --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-bootstrap --enable-cet --enable-checking=release --enable-gnu-indirect-function --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-initfini-array --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,lto --enable-multilib --enable-offload-targets=nvptx-none --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-arch_32=x86-64 --with-gcc-major-version-only --with-isl --with-linker-hash-style=gnu --with-tune=generic --without-cuda-driver
Processor Notes: CPU Microcode: 0xffffffff
Python Notes: Python 3.6.8
Security Notes: SELinux + itlb_multihit: Not affected + l1tf: Not affected + mds: Not affected + meltdown: Not affected + spec_store_bypass: Vulnerable + spectre_v1: Mitigation of usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization + spectre_v2: Mitigation of Full generic retpoline STIBP: disabled RSB filling + tsx_async_abort: Not affected
Changed Processor to 2 x AMD EPYC 7V73X 64-Core (64 Cores).
Changed Processor to 2 x AMD EPYC 7V13 64-Core (120 Cores).
Changed Processor to 2 x AMD EPYC 7V73X 64-Core (120 Cores).
WRF, the Weather Research and Forecasting Model, is a "next-generation mesoscale numerical weather prediction system designed for both atmospheric research and operational forecasting applications. It features two dynamical cores, a data assimilation system, and a software architecture supporting parallel computation and system extensibility." Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
OpenFOAM is the leading free, open source software for computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
BRL-CAD is a cross-platform, open-source solid modeling system with built-in benchmark mode. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
HPC Challenge (HPCC) is a cluster-focused benchmark consisting of the HPL Linpack TPP benchmark, DGEMM, STREAM, PTRANS, RandomAccess, FFT, and communication bandwidth and latency. This HPC Challenge test profile attempts to ship with standard yet versatile configuration/input files though they can be modified. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
NWChem is an open-source high performance computational chemistry package. Per NWChem's documentation, "NWChem aims to provide its users with computational chemistry tools that are scalable both in their ability to treat large scientific computational chemistry problems efficiently, and in their use of available parallel computing resources from high-performance parallel supercomputers to conventional workstation clusters." Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
ASKAP is a set of benchmarks from the Australian SKA Pathfinder. The principal ASKAP benchmarks are the Hogbom Clean Benchmark (tHogbomClean) and Convolutional Resamping Benchmark (tConvolve) as well as some previous ASKAP benchmarks being included as well for OpenCL and CUDA execution of tConvolve. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Xcompact3d Incompact3d is a Fortran-MPI based, finite difference high-performance code for solving the incompressible Navier-Stokes equation and as many as you need scalar transport equations. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
RELION - REgularised LIkelihood OptimisatioN - is a stand-alone computer program for Maximum A Posteriori refinement of (multiple) 3D reconstructions or 2D class averages in cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM). It is developed in the research group of Sjors Scheres at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
HPCG is the High Performance Conjugate Gradient and is a new scientific benchmark from Sandia National Lans focused for super-computer testing with modern real-world workloads compared to HPCC. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
LAMMPS is a classical molecular dynamics code, and an acronym for Large-scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
LULESH is the Livermore Unstructured Lagrangian Explicit Shock Hydrodynamics. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
The Parboil Benchmarks from the IMPACT Research Group at University of Illinois are a set of throughput computing applications for looking at computing architecture and compilers. Parboil test-cases support OpenMP, OpenCL, and CUDA multi-processing environments. However, at this time the test profile is just making use of the OpenMP and OpenCL test workloads. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
NAMD is a parallel molecular dynamics code designed for high-performance simulation of large biomolecular systems. NAMD was developed by the Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group in the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
The GROMACS (GROningen MAchine for Chemical Simulations) molecular dynamics package testing with the water_GMX50 data. This test profile allows selecting between CPU and GPU-based GROMACS builds. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
ONNX Runtime is developed by Microsoft and partners as a open-source, cross-platform, high performance machine learning inferencing and training accelerator. This test profile runs the ONNX Runtime with various models available from the ONNX Zoo. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
NPB, NAS Parallel Benchmarks, is a benchmark developed by NASA for high-end computer systems. This test profile currently uses the MPI version of NPB. This test profile offers selecting the different NPB tests/problems and varying problem sizes. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
This test measures the time needed to compress/decompress a sample file (a FreeBSD disk image - FreeBSD-12.2-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img) using Zstd compression with options for different compression levels / settings. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
This is a benchmark of John The Ripper, which is a password cracker. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Intel OSPray is a portable ray-tracing engine for high-performance, high-fidenlity scientific visualizations. OSPray builds off Intel's Embree and Intel SPMD Program Compiler (ISPC) components as part of the oneAPI rendering toolkit. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Intel Embree is a collection of high-performance ray-tracing kernels for execution on CPUs and supporting instruction sets such as SSE, AVX, AVX2, and AVX-512. Embree also supports making use of the Intel SPMD Program Compiler (ISPC). Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
This test times how long it takes to build the Linux kernel in a default configuration (defconfig) for the architecture being tested. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
This test profile times how long it takes to build/compile Node.js itself from source. Node.js is a JavaScript run-time built from the Chrome V8 JavaScript engine while itself is written in C/C++. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Kripke is a simple, scalable, 3D Sn deterministic particle transport code. Its primary purpose is to research how data layout, programming paradigms and architectures effect the implementation and performance of Sn transport. Kripke is developed by LLNL. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
This is a test of GraphicsMagick with its OpenMP implementation that performs various imaging tests on a sample 6000x4000 pixel JPEG image. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
OpenVKL is the Intel Open Volume Kernel Library that offers high-performance volume computation kernels and part of the Intel oneAPI rendering toolkit. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
This is a benchmark of Facebook's RocksDB as an embeddable persistent key-value store for fast storage based on Google's LevelDB. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Processor: 2 x AMD EPYC 7V13 64-Core (64 Cores), Motherboard: Microsoft Virtual Machine (Hyper-V UEFI v4.1 BIOS), Memory: 442GB, Disk: 2 x 960GB Microsoft NVMe Direct Disk + 32GB Virtual Disk + 515GB Virtual Disk, Graphics: hyperv_fb, Network: Mellanox MT27710
OS: CentOS Linux 8, Kernel: 4.18.0-147.8.1.el8_1.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 8.3.1 20190507, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1152x864, System Layer: microsoft
Kernel Notes: Transparent Huge Pages: always
Compiler Notes: --build=x86_64-redhat-linux --disable-libmpx --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-bootstrap --enable-cet --enable-checking=release --enable-gnu-indirect-function --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-initfini-array --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,lto --enable-multilib --enable-offload-targets=nvptx-none --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-arch_32=x86-64 --with-gcc-major-version-only --with-isl --with-linker-hash-style=gnu --with-tune=generic --without-cuda-driver
Processor Notes: CPU Microcode: 0xffffffff
Python Notes: Python 3.6.8
Security Notes: SELinux + itlb_multihit: Not affected + l1tf: Not affected + mds: Not affected + meltdown: Not affected + spec_store_bypass: Vulnerable + spectre_v1: Mitigation of usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization + spectre_v2: Mitigation of Full generic retpoline STIBP: disabled RSB filling + tsx_async_abort: Not affected
Testing initiated at 6 November 2021 04:57 by user .
Processor: 2 x AMD EPYC 7V73X 64-Core (64 Cores), Motherboard: Microsoft Virtual Machine (Hyper-V UEFI v4.1 BIOS), Memory: 442GB, Disk: 2 x 960GB Microsoft NVMe Direct Disk + 32GB Virtual Disk + 515GB Virtual Disk, Graphics: hyperv_fb, Network: Mellanox MT27710
OS: CentOS Linux 8, Kernel: 4.18.0-147.8.1.el8_1.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 8.3.1 20190507, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1152x864, System Layer: microsoft
Kernel Notes: Transparent Huge Pages: always
Compiler Notes: --build=x86_64-redhat-linux --disable-libmpx --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-bootstrap --enable-cet --enable-checking=release --enable-gnu-indirect-function --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-initfini-array --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,lto --enable-multilib --enable-offload-targets=nvptx-none --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-arch_32=x86-64 --with-gcc-major-version-only --with-isl --with-linker-hash-style=gnu --with-tune=generic --without-cuda-driver
Processor Notes: CPU Microcode: 0xffffffff
Python Notes: Python 3.6.8
Security Notes: SELinux + itlb_multihit: Not affected + l1tf: Not affected + mds: Not affected + meltdown: Not affected + spec_store_bypass: Vulnerable + spectre_v1: Mitigation of usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization + spectre_v2: Mitigation of Full generic retpoline STIBP: disabled RSB filling + tsx_async_abort: Not affected
Testing initiated at 6 November 2021 18:30 by user .
Processor: 2 x AMD EPYC 7V13 64-Core (120 Cores), Motherboard: Microsoft Virtual Machine (Hyper-V UEFI v4.1 BIOS), Memory: 442GB, Disk: 2 x 960GB Microsoft NVMe Direct Disk + 32GB Virtual Disk + 515GB Virtual Disk, Graphics: hyperv_fb, Network: Mellanox MT27710
OS: CentOS Linux 8, Kernel: 4.18.0-147.8.1.el8_1.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 8.3.1 20190507, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1152x864, System Layer: microsoft
Kernel Notes: Transparent Huge Pages: always
Compiler Notes: --build=x86_64-redhat-linux --disable-libmpx --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-bootstrap --enable-cet --enable-checking=release --enable-gnu-indirect-function --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-initfini-array --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,lto --enable-multilib --enable-offload-targets=nvptx-none --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-arch_32=x86-64 --with-gcc-major-version-only --with-isl --with-linker-hash-style=gnu --with-tune=generic --without-cuda-driver
Processor Notes: CPU Microcode: 0xffffffff
Python Notes: Python 3.6.8
Security Notes: SELinux + itlb_multihit: Not affected + l1tf: Not affected + mds: Not affected + meltdown: Not affected + spec_store_bypass: Vulnerable + spectre_v1: Mitigation of usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization + spectre_v2: Mitigation of Full generic retpoline STIBP: disabled RSB filling + tsx_async_abort: Not affected
Testing initiated at 6 November 2021 08:48 by user .
Processor: 2 x AMD EPYC 7V73X 64-Core (120 Cores), Motherboard: Microsoft Virtual Machine (Hyper-V UEFI v4.1 BIOS), Memory: 442GB, Disk: 2 x 960GB Microsoft NVMe Direct Disk + 32GB Virtual Disk + 515GB Virtual Disk, Graphics: hyperv_fb, Network: Mellanox MT27710
OS: CentOS Linux 8, Kernel: 4.18.0-147.8.1.el8_1.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 8.3.1 20190507, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1152x864, System Layer: microsoft
Kernel Notes: Transparent Huge Pages: always
Compiler Notes: --build=x86_64-redhat-linux --disable-libmpx --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-bootstrap --enable-cet --enable-checking=release --enable-gnu-indirect-function --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-initfini-array --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,lto --enable-multilib --enable-offload-targets=nvptx-none --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-arch_32=x86-64 --with-gcc-major-version-only --with-isl --with-linker-hash-style=gnu --with-tune=generic --without-cuda-driver
Processor Notes: CPU Microcode: 0xffffffff
Python Notes: Python 3.6.8
Security Notes: SELinux + itlb_multihit: Not affected + l1tf: Not affected + mds: Not affected + meltdown: Not affected + spec_store_bypass: Vulnerable + spectre_v1: Mitigation of usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization + spectre_v2: Mitigation of Full generic retpoline STIBP: disabled RSB filling + tsx_async_abort: Not affected
Testing initiated at 6 November 2021 11:55 by user .