How to Run an Optimized HPL Linpack Benchmark on AMD Ryzen Threadripper —...
The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX with 32 cores is an intriguing processor. I've been asked about performance for numerical computing and decided to find out how well it would do with my favorite...
View ArticleAMD Threadripper 2990WX 32-core vs Intel Xeon-W 2175 14-core – Linpack NAMD...
I recently wrote a post about building and running AMD Threadripper 2990WX with HPL Linpack - a "How-To". Most of the time I had with the processor went into getting that to work. However, I did run a...
View ArticleAMD Threadripper and (1-4) NVIDIA 2080Ti and 2070 for NAMD Molecular Dynamics
In my recent testing with the AMD Threadripper 2990WX is was impressed by the CPU based performance with the molecular dynamics program NAMD. NAMD makes a good benchmark for looking at CPU/GPU...
View ArticleAMD 3900X (Brief) Compute Performance Linpack and NAMD
I was able to spend a little time with an AMD Ryzen 3900X. Of course the first thing I wanted know was the double precision floating point performance. My two favorite applications for a "first look"...
View ArticleAMD Ryzen 3900X vs Intel Xeon 2175W Python numpy – MKL vs OpenBLAS
In this post I've done more testing with Ryzen 3900X looking at the effect of BLAS libraries on a simple but computationally demanding problem with Python numpy. The results may surprise you! I start...
View ArticleAMD Ryzen 3950x Compute Performance Linpack and NAMD
The, much anticipated, AMD Ryzen 3950x 16-core processor is out! As always the first thing I wanted know was the double precision floating point performance. My two favorite applications for a "first...
View ArticleAMD Threadripper 3970x Compute Performance Linpack and NAMD
AMD Threadripper 3970x 32-core! ...The, third new AMD processor I've had the pleasure of trying recently. I'm running it through the same double precision floating point performance tests as the...
View ArticleHow To Use MKL with AMD Ryzen and Threadripper CPU’s (Effectively) for Python...
In this post I'm going to show you a simple way to significantly speedup Python numpy compute performance on AMD CPU's when using Anaconda Python. The post How To Use MKL with AMD Ryzen and...
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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