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Results calculated by Intel P2CA using AWS pricing ($/hour, standard 1-year term, no up-front) as of 12th January, 2019.
Performance per dollar testing done on AWS* EC2 M5 and M5a instances (https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/), comparing 96 vCPU Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor performance per dollar to AMD EPYC* processor performance per dollar.

Workload: LAMMPS*
Results: AMD EPYC performance per dollar = baseline of 1; Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor performance per dollar = 4.15X (higher is better)
HPC Materials Science – LAMMPS (higher is better):
AWS M5.24xlarge (Intel) Instance, LAMMPS version: 2018-08-22 (Code: https://lammps.sandia.gov/download.html), Workload: Water – 512K Particles, Intel ICC 18.0.3.20180410, Intel® MPI Library for Linux* OS, Version 2018 Update 3 Build 20180411, 48 MPI Ranks, RedHat* Enterprise Linux 7.5, Kernel 3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64, OMP_NUM_THREADS=2, Score 137.5 timesteps/sec, measured by Intel on 10/31/18.
AWS M5a.24xlarge (AMD) Instance, LAMMPS version: 2018-08-22 (Code: https://lammps.sandia.gov/download.html), Workload: Water – 512K Particles, Intel ICC 18.0.3.20180410, Intel® MPI Library for Linux* OS, Version 2018 Update 3 Build 20180411, 48 MPI Ranks, RedHat* Enterprise Linux 7.5, Kernel 3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64, OMP_NUM_THREADS=2, Score 55.8 timesteps/sec, measured by Intel on 11/7/18.
Changes for AMD to support AVX2 (AMD only supports AVX2, so these changes were necessary):
sed -i 's/-xHost/-xCORE-AVX2/g' Makefile.intel_cpu_intelmpi
sed -i 's/-qopt-zmm-usage=high/-xCORE-AVX2/g' Makefile.intel_cpu_intelmpi

Workload: High-performance Linpack*
Results: AMD EPYC performance per dollar = baseline of 1; Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor performance per dollar = 4.15X (higher is better)
HPC Linpack (higher is better):
AWS M5.24xlarge (Intel) Instance, HP Linpack Version 2.2 (https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-mkl-benchmarks-suite Directory: benchmarks_2018.3.222/linux/mkl/benchmarks/mp_linpack/bin_intel/intel64), Intel ICC 18.0.3.20180410 with AVX512, Intel® MPI Library for Linux* OS, Version 2018 Update 3 Build 20180411, RedHat* Enterprise Linux 7.5, Kernel 3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64, OMP_NUM_THREADS=24, 2 MPI processes, Score 3152 GB/s, measured by Intel on 10/31/18.
AWS M5a.24xlarge (AMD) Instance, HP Linpack Version 2.2, (HPL Source: http://www.netlib.org/benchmark/hpl/hpl-2.2.tar.gz; Version 2.2; icc (ICC) 18.0.2 20180210 used to compile and link to BLIS library version 0.4.0; https://github.com/flame/blis; Addt’l Compiler flags: -O3 -funroll-loops -W -Wall –qopenmp; make arch=zen OMP_NUM_THREADS=8; 6 MPI processes.), Intel ICC 18.0.3.20180410 with AVX2, Intel® MPI Library for Linux* OS, Version 2018 Update 3 Build 20180411, RedHat* Enterprise Linux 7.5, Kernel 3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64, OMP_NUM_THREADS=8, 6 MPI processes, Score 677.7 GB/s, measured by Intel on 11/7/18.

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Results calculated by Intel P2CA using AWS pricing ($/hour, standard 1-year term, no up-front) as of 12th January, 2019.
Performance per dollar testing done on AWS* EC2 M5 and M5a instances (https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/), comparing 96 vCPU Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor performance per dollar to AMD EPYC* processor performance per dollar.

Workload: Server Side Java* 1 JVM
Results: AMD EPYC performance per dollar = baseline of 1; Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor performance per dollar = 1.74X (higher is better)
Server Side Java (higher is better):
AWS M5.24xlarge (Intel) Instance, Java Server Benchmark No NUMA binding, 2JVM, OpenJDK 10.0.1, RedHat* Enterprise Linux 7.5, Kernel 3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64, Score 101767 Transactions/sec, measured by Intel on 11/16/18.
AWS M5a.24xlarge (AMD) Instance, Java Server Benchmark No NUMA binding, 2JVM, OpenJDK 10.0.1, RedHat* Enterprise Linux 7.5, Kernel 3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64, Score 52068 Transactions/sec, measured by Intel on 11/16/18.

Workload: Wordpress* PHP/HHVM*
Results: AMD EPYC performance per dollar = baseline of 1; Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor performance per dollar = 1.75X (higher is better)
Web Front End Wordpress (higher is better):
AWS M5.24xlarge (Intel) Instance, oss-performance/wordpress Ver 4.2.0; Ver 10.2.19-MariaDB-1:10.2.19+maria~bionic; Workload Version': u'4.2.0; Client Threads: 200; PHP 7.2.12-1; perfkitbenchmarker_version="v1.12.0-944-g82392cc; Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel Linux 4.15.0-1025-aws, Score 3626.11 TPS, measured by Intel on 11/16/18.
AWS M5a.24xlarge (AMD) Instance, oss-performance/wordpress Ver 4.2.0; Ver 10.2.19-MariaDB-1:10.2.19+maria~bionic; Workload Version': u'4.2.0; Client Threads: 200; PHP 7.2.12-1; perfkitbenchmarker_version="v1.12.0-944-g82392cc; Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel Linux 4.15.0-1025-aws, Score 1838.48 TPS, measured by Intel on 11/16/18.

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AWS M5.4xlarge (Intel) Instance, McCalpin Stream (OMP version), (Source: https://www.cs.virginia.edu/stream/FTP/Code/stream.c); Intel ICC 18.0.3 20180410 with AVX512, -qopt-zmm-usage=high, -DSTREAM_ARRAY_SIZE=134217728 -DNTIMES=100 -DOFFSET=0 –qopenmp, -qoptstreaming-stores always -o $OUT stream.c, Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 7.5, Kernel 3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64, OMP_NUM_THREADS: 8, KMP_AFFINITY: proclist=[0-7:1], granularity=thread, explicit, Score 81216.7 MB/s, measured by Intel on 12/6/18.
AWS M5a.4xlarge (AMD) Instance, McCalpin Stream (OMP version), (Source: https://www.cs.virginia.edu/stream/FTP/Code/stream.c); Intel ICC 18.0.3 20180410 with AVX2, -DSTREAM_ARRAY_SIZE=134217728, -DNTIMES=100 -DOFFSET=0 -qopenmp -qopt-streaming-stores always -o $OUT stream.c, Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 7.5, Kernel 3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64, OMP_NUM_THREADS: 8, KMP_AFFINITY : proclist=[0-7:1], granularity=thread,explicit, Score 32154.4 MB/s, measured by Intel on 12/6/18.
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