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From: "Mikael Johansson mikael.johansson,,iki.fi" <owner-chemistry:+:server.ccl.net>
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Subject: CCL: The new AMD EPYC CPUs for comp chem in general and quantum chem in particular
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Sent to CCL by: Mikael Johansson [mikael.johansson]~[iki.fi]

Dear All,

We are about to procure a new HPC-server to the lab, and we got some 
rather competitive offers based on the new AMD EPYC CPUs, for an SMP 
machine with ~64 cores.

Googling gives the impression that AMD is back in the HPC-game, for 
example NAMD seems to run very well:
https://www.anandtech.com/show/11544/intel-skylake-ep-vs-amd-epyc-7000-cpu-battle-of-the-decade/21

If anyone has some more experience, or has found other benchmarks out 
there, I would be very happy to hear about it!

Cheers,
     Mikael J.

-- 
Dr. Mikael Johansson
Academy Researcher
Department of Chemistry
University of Helsinki
http://www.iki.fi/~mpjohans