Webinar: Designing an HPC Cluster

The team at Advanced Clustering Technologies discusses all elements of a cluster build and offers insights about the best options for processors, interconnects and more based on a variety of use cases. Webinar timeline: 00:00 Introduction 00:18 About Advanced Clustering Technologies 00:55 Topics we will cover 02:00 Intel Xeon Overview 02:58 Intel Xeon SKUs 03:00 AMD EPYC Overview 05:18 What is AVX? 07:39 Calculating TFLOPs 08:20 What Speed is my CPU? 08:44 AMD EPYC CPUs 10:55 Single vs. dual socket 11:55 AMD EPYC SKUs 12:33 Calculating TFLOPs 13:02 Why choose Intel? 13:38 Why choose AMD? 14:21 Side-by-side comparison 14:54 Interconnects 15:12 Ethernet 16:08 InfiniBand 20:04 Why oversubscribe? 20:37 Omni-Path 21:33 Storage 23:40 GPUs 28:01 Logistics considerations 29:36 What’s next? 30:46 Resources