{"id":16648,"date":"2020-05-03T11:34:42","date_gmt":"2020-05-03T06:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/2020\/05\/renting-an-amd-epyc-supercomputer-is-now-pretty-affordable\/"},"modified":"2020-05-03T11:34:42","modified_gmt":"2020-05-03T06:34:42","slug":"renting-an-amd-epyc-supercomputer-is-now-pretty-affordable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/2020\/05\/03\/renting-an-amd-epyc-supercomputer-is-now-pretty-affordable\/","title":{"rendered":"Renting an AMD EPYC supercomputer is now pretty affordable"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cloud Computing<\/u> has democratized access to a large number of useful services, such as storage<\/u>, VPN<\/u> and web hosting<\/u> – all of which have become immensely popular and equally cheap.<\/p>\n

This was accomplished by opening almost unlimited computing resources, storage, and network resources to almost anyone with a credit card in their name. And yes, the principle even extends to supercomputers, well, almost.<\/p>\n

Drink Microsoft Azure<\/u> for example; Along with Google and Amazon, it is one of the largest hyperscaler \/ cloud giants in the world.<\/p>\n

Wandering through the number of mind-numbing options, we found a so-called virtual machine instance (HBv2) that offers 120 AMD EPYC 7002 series CPU cores with 4GB of RAM per core and 900GB of temporary storage.<\/p>\n

Now, by itself, 120 CPU cores haven't challenged even a supercomputer since the beginning of the millennium. But since it only costs $ 3.60 an hour (a price per core of $ 0.03), there's nothing stopping you from buying 100 of such cases, which could allow you to forecast the weather or perform fluid dynamics analysis if you so choose. .<\/p>\n

The 12,000 CPU core combo packs are a pretty big hit, and since Spot can cut the price of the instance by almost 80%, you could say we're almost dealing with the pocket change.<\/p>\n

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Did you find a better deal?<\/h5>\n
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Have you managed to obtain a cheaper product with equivalent specifications? Let us know and we will give you a tip. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

HBv2 series virtual machines provide up to 350 GBps of memory bandwidth, which is up to 50% faster than Intel x86 and 3 times faster than most HPC customer data center services. The HBv2 series virtual machines also feature 200Gbps HDR InfiniBand from Mellanox.<\/p>\n

Please note that EPYC instances are only available in some regions and there is currently a supply and demand issue which could mean the product is not available.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/pre>\n<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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