Dear NEST users,
We are going to buy some nodes for the departmental HPC cluster and they are currently oriented towards nodes with AMD processors (e.g., AMD EPYC 7413 and AMD EPYC 9654 2). On HPC, in the past years we have always been using Intel-based nodes (e.g., Xeon Gold). I just wanted to check if there are possible issues in using these nodes or if others have already been using multi-CPU AMD nodes successfully.
Thank you and have a great weekend! Best, Alberto
-- Alberto Antonietti, Ph.D. Assistant Professor
Nearlab - NeuroEngineering And medical Robotics Laboratory Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering Politecnico di Milano http://www.nearlab.polimi.it/
Dear Alberto and NEST users,
Do you know that you can get access for free to the top EU HPCs inclusive LUMI that has AMD processors?
National Centres of Competences (NCCs) for High-Performance Computing are in each EU country and are part of EuroCC https://www.eurocc-access.eu and EuroHPC JU https://eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/index_en EuroHPC JU is a joint initiative between the EU, European countries and private partners to develop a World Class Supercomputing Ecosystem in Europe. For example, I work in Swedish NCC: https://enccs.se/
The focus of NCCs is to: 1. Provide free access to the best EU supercomputers. We are in pre-exascale right now before JUPITER is coming. 2. Improve the public’s competence about HPCs and Technologies generally.
List of hardware: https://eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/about/our-supercomputers_en
Best regards, Anastasiia Andriievska
________________________________ From: Alberto Antonietti alberto.antonietti@polimi.it Sent: 19 May 2023 12:52:30 To: users@nest-simulator.org Subject: [NEST Users] NEST on AMD
Dear NEST users,
We are going to buy some nodes for the departmental HPC cluster and they are currently oriented towards nodes with AMD processors (e.g., AMD EPYC 7413 and AMD EPYC 9654 2). On HPC, in the past years we have always been using Intel-based nodes (e.g., Xeon Gold). I just wanted to check if there are possible issues in using these nodes or if others have already been using multi-CPU AMD nodes successfully.
Thank you and have a great weekend! Best, Alberto
-- Alberto Antonietti, Ph.D. Assistant Professor
Nearlab - NeuroEngineering And medical Robotics Laboratory Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering Politecnico di Milano http://www.nearlab.polimi.it/
Dear Alberto,
we have been using AMD EPYC nodes for some time now and didn't encounter any AMD specific issues. To the contrary, we observed very good performance for NEST simulations with the AMD EPYC Rome 7702 nodes, see for example herehttps://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2634-4386/ac55fc/meta.
Have a nice weekend, too.
Best, Anno
On 19.05.23 12:52, Alberto Antonietti wrote: Dear NEST users,
We are going to buy some nodes for the departmental HPC cluster and they are currently oriented towards nodes with AMD processors (e.g., AMD EPYC 7413 and AMD EPYC 9654 2). On HPC, in the past years we have always been using Intel-based nodes (e.g., Xeon Gold). I just wanted to check if there are possible issues in using these nodes or if others have already been using multi-CPU AMD nodes successfully.
Thank you and have a great weekend! Best, Alberto
-- Alberto Antonietti, Ph.D. Assistant Professor
Nearlab - NeuroEngineering And medical Robotics Laboratory Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering Politecnico di Milano http://www.nearlab.polimi.it/
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Thanks a lot, Anno and Anastasiia for the prompt replies and suggestions!
Best, Alberto
From: Anno Kurth a.kurth@fz-juelich.de Date: Friday, 19 May 2023 at 13:25 To: users@nest-simulator.org users@nest-simulator.org, Alberto Antonietti alberto.antonietti@polimi.it Subject: Re: [NEST Users] NEST on AMD
Dear Alberto,
we have been using AMD EPYC nodes for some time now and didn't encounter any AMD specific issues. To the contrary, we observed very good performance for NEST simulations with the AMD EPYC Rome 7702 nodes, see for example herehttps://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2634-4386/ac55fc/meta.
Have a nice weekend, too.
Best, Anno
On 19.05.23 12:52, Alberto Antonietti wrote: Dear NEST users,
We are going to buy some nodes for the departmental HPC cluster and they are currently oriented towards nodes with AMD processors (e.g., AMD EPYC 7413 and AMD EPYC 9654 2). On HPC, in the past years we have always been using Intel-based nodes (e.g., Xeon Gold). I just wanted to check if there are possible issues in using these nodes or if others have already been using multi-CPU AMD nodes successfully.
Thank you and have a great weekend! Best, Alberto
-- Alberto Antonietti, Ph.D. Assistant Professor
Nearlab - NeuroEngineering And medical Robotics Laboratory Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering Politecnico di Milano http://www.nearlab.polimi.it/
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