- May 2020
Super Micro Computer, Inc.
980 Rock Avenue
San Jose, CA 95131 USA
www.supermicro.com
Table of Contents
2 Supermicro BigTwin
™
:
Where performance meets
eciency for HPC applications
2 AMD 2
nd
Gen EPYC HPC
3 High Frequency
3 High Cache per Core
3 Scalability
4 Ansys
®
LS-DYNA
®
4 BigTwin Performance Testing
6 Conclusion
White Paper
Ansys
®
LS-DYNA
®
Performance on
Supermicro BigTwin
™
and
AMD EPYC
™
Processors
Balanced compute resources, memory bandwidth, and network bandwidth deliver
outstanding performance and scalability for popular crash simulation software
Executive Summary
Ansys
®
LS-DYNA
®
: Simulating complex real-world problems
Ansys
®
LS-DYNA
®
is a general-purpose nite element analysis program capable of
simulating complex real-world problems. It is widely adopted by the automobile,
aerospace, construction, military, manufacturing, and bioengineering industries.
High Density, Maximized Value
Compute requirements are increasing, while datacenter space is not. Supermicro’s
innovative BigTwin
™
family of servers, powered by AMD EPYC processors, oer incredible
core density with a rich feature set. Innovative server design meets innovative CPU
architecture to drive new levels of value for the datacenter.
Conclusion
FEA (Finite Element Analysis) workloads are demanding and require a balance of
memory bandwidth, oating-point performance, and network IO. Supermicro BigTwin,
empowered by AMD EPYC processors, provide exceptional memory bandwidth and
oating-point performance, oering organizations the benet of the right balance
between scalability and density for their workloads.
LSTC LS-DYNA
®
Performance on Supermicro BigTwin
™
and AMD EPYC
™
2
Supermicro BigTwin
™
: Where performance meets
efficiency for HPC applications
Performance: Supports the high-performance AMD EPYC
™
processors for up to 64
cores/128 threads, up to 4TB of DDR4 memory, and up to 6 hot-swap drives (4 All-Flash
NVMe and 2 SATA3) per node for the most demanding workloads.
Density: Incredible high-density with up to 4 hot-swappable nodes in a 2U form factor
provides exible and robust IO options – 1G, 10G, 25G, or 100G Ethernet or 100G
InniBand, and up to 2 additional low-prole PCI-E 4.0 x16 expansion slots per node.
Eciency: Designed with power and cost eciency in mind, BigTwin reduces
power consumption with shared cooling and power design, leveraging redundant
2600W/2200W high-eciency (96%) power supplies. (Full redundancy based on
conguration and application load)
AMD EPYC
Processors for HPC
AMD EPYC 7Fx2 processors bring high frequencies and very high ratios of cache per
core to the second generation EPYC family of processors. EPYC 7Fx2 processors build
on the large memory capacity, extreme memory bandwidth and massive IO of the 2nd
Generation EPYC family to deliver exceptional HPC workload performance.