Table 2.
Overview of system configurations and technical capabilities for the two HPC systems that were used for benchmarking.
| HPC test system description | ||
|---|---|---|
| Cloud service provider | Microsoft Azure | Amazon Web Services |
| Service name | CycleCloud | ParallelCluster |
| VM name | Standard_HB120rs_v3 | hpc6a.48xlarge |
| Processor | AMD EPYC 7V73X | AMD EPYC 7R13 |
| CPU cores available | 120 | 96 |
| CPU speed (MHz) | 1846 | 2650 |
| Memory (GiB) | 461 | 384 |
| L3 cache memory (MB) | 96 | 192 |
| Network bandwidth (Gb s−1) | 200 (NVIDIA HDR InfiniBand) | 100 (Elastic Fabric Adapter – EFA) |