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ANNOUNCING AZURE HBV5 VIRTUAL MACHINES: A BREAKTHROUGH IN MEMORY BANDWIDTH FOR
HPC

By Fernando Aznar Cornejo, Product Marketing Manager, Microsoft Azure HPC

November 19, 2024

Sponsored content by Microsoft Azure & AMD


THE MOST POWERFUL AZURE VIRTUAL MACHINE FOR HPC

On November 19 at Ignite 2024, Microsoft unveiled their most advanced and
efficient high-performance computing infrastructure to date, Azure HBv5. Powered
by custom-built AMD EPYC™ 9V64H processors only available in Azure, Azure HBv5
is designed for highly parallel, computationally intensive workloads that
require massive amounts of memory bandwidth like financial modeling,
multi-physics simulation, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), weather modeling
and molecular dynamics.


8X HIGHER MEMORY BANDWIDTH TO SOLVE HPC BOTTLENECKS

For many HPC customers, memory performance from standard server designs has
become the most significant impediment to achieving desired levels of workload
performance (time to insight) and cost efficiency. To overcome this bottleneck,
Microsoft and AMD have worked together to develop a custom 4th Generation EPYC
processor with high bandwidth memory (HBM). In an Azure HBv5 VM, four of these
processors work jointly to deliver nearly 7 TB/s of memory bandwidth. For
comparison, this is up to 8x higher compared to the latest bare-metal and Cloud
alternatives, almost 20x more than Azure HBv3 and Azure HBv2, and up to 35x more
than a 4-5 year old HPC server approaching the end of its hardware lifecycle.

Below chart shows STREAM performance for an Azure HBv5 VM compared to prior
generations of Azure H-series VMs.

Figure 1: STREAM Triad memory bandwidth for Azure HBv5 and all current Azure
H-series VMs


HPC INNOVATION AND OPTIMIZATION ACROSS THE STACK

While Azure HBv5’s memory bandwidth is a standout feature, Microsoft and AMD
have co-engineered improvements throughout the product to deliver customers a VM
that is balanced, secure, configurable to user needs and extremely performant
for a variety of HPC workloads.

Each Azure HBv5 VM will feature:

 * * 6.9 TB/s of memory bandwidth (STREAM Triad) across 400-450 GB of RAM (HBM3)
   * Up to 9 GB of memory per core (customer configurable)
   * Up to 352 AMD EPYC “Zen4” CPU cores, 4 GHz peak frequencies (customer
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   * 2X total Infinity Fabric bandwidth among CPUs as any AMD EPYC server
     platform to date
   * SMT disabled, single-tenant only design (1 VM per server)
   * 800 Gb/s of NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand, balanced as 200 Gb/s per CPU SoC
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     HBM-powered CPU cores
   * 160 Gbps of Azure Accelerated Networking via 2nd generation Azure Boost NIC
   * 14 TB local NVMe SSD delivering up to 50 GB/s read and 30 GB/s write
     bandwidth

Figure 2: A Microsoft Azure HBv5 server


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ANNOUNCING AZURE HBV5 VIRTUAL MACHINES: A BREAKTHROUGH IN MEMORY BANDWIDTH FOR
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