In this blog, I will briefly explain what seismic exploration is, how it works, and how it can be used for many different purposes. I will then share some generational and competitive performance information showcasing 4th Gen AMD EPYC™ processors compared to both 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors and Intel® Xeon® processors. I’ll conclude by summarizing why these results are important for seismic exploration.

AMD EPYC™ 7003 Series processors with AMD 3D V-Cache™ technology, formerly code-named “Milan-X,” were specifically engineered to excel at technical computing workloads. Today, AMD adds four of these processors to the EPYC 7003 lineup. Read this blog to learn more about the newest addition to the EPYC™ processor lineup. 

We are excited to be at SC’19 with our friends and family of ecosystem partners. I’d like to share my thoughts on how AMD has unleashed the EPYC revolution for HPC. AMD is all about innovation and our mission is to deliver products that help to solve the world’s toughest challenges – in life sciences, earth science, energy, manufacturing, fundamental research, oil and gas, machine intelligence and many more. We celebrated our 50th anniversary milestone this year with what analysts called the ‘7nm storm’. The 7nm EPYC, Radeon and Ryzen processors bring new possibilities to the new era of computing with ground-breaking performance and outstanding power efficiency driving lower TCO.

While numerous HPC workloads benefit from the core performance and industry leading memory bandwidth of the AMD EPYC™ 7000 series process family there’s a set of workloads that only scale when they get access to one thing, speed.

High-performance computing (HPC) has grown to a point where it is a critical component of new technology advancements in academia and a wide array of industries in both the public and private sectors. Scientific research, public health, climate modeling, as well as oil and gas exploration are just a few examples where HPC is the driving force behind new innovations and knowledge discovery.

High Performance Computing (HPC) is one of the most important and fastest growing markets in the datacenter. It’s perhaps an overused term, but HPC as referring to applying massive computing resources to solve complex problems has become critical well beyond its start in scientific research. Multiple workloads from finance, retail, oil and gas, weather, engineering, and education leverage HPC today. Common to many of these applications is the importance of memory, and I/O bandwidth.