Microsoft and AMD’s co-designed EPYC 9V64H — the CPU at the heart of Azure’s new HBv5 virtual machines — changes the calculus for memory‑bound HPC in the cloud by bringing HBM3 directly to an EPYC‑class CPU and delivering an order‑of‑magnitude uplift in sustained memory bandwidth for real‑world...
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High-performance computing (HPC) often feels like a race car trying to navigate a traffic jam. It doesn’t matter how powerful the engine is if the road isn’t designed to support its speed. This sums up the ongoing challenge of memory-bound workloads in HPC. These workloads—think computational...