Digital Manufacturing Benefits

Executives of advanced manufacturing (AM) corporations spoke about some of the important changes happening in the sector during the 4Q20 quarterly public results calls. The issue of digital industrial transformation and how COVID-19 has pushed its adoption in the sector stood out as one particularly important theme. During 4Q20, decisions made by chemical, industrial products, and defense and aerospace (A&D) companies were influenced by the advent of the digital era.

Workloads for digital production, including computer-aided engineering, could demand a lot of processing power. The AMD EPYCTM-powered Validated Designs for HPC Digital Manufacturing are already built to provide quick performance and simple scaling with modular building blocks. These compute-intensive workloads should now be accelerated by new AMD technology.

The AMD EPYC 7003 Series Processors featuring AMD 3D V-CacheTM technology were just released, according to AMD. These new processors, which are based on the AMD 3D Chiplet architecture, are made to significantly improve the performance of demanding digital manufacturing CAE workloads like finite element analysis (FEA), computational fluid dynamics (CFD), and others.

Digital Manufacturing Benefits

With stacking based on a “bumpless” chip-on-wafer technique that uses copper-to-copper hybrid bonding instead of solder bumps, AMD can achieve interconnect densities that are over 200X greater than those of 2D interconnects and over 15X more than those of competing stacking technologies. This improves power and thermal efficiencies while reducing latency and increasing bandwidth. As a result, CAE workloads can be accelerated by as much as 56%1 using Validated Models for HPC Digital Manufacturing based on PowerEdge servers with AMD EPYC 7003 Processors with AMD 3D V-Cache technology.

The combination of AMD EPYC processors and Dell PowerEdge R6525 and R6515 servers is perfect for increasing the performance per rack for some digital manufacturing applications, where server density is crucial. Based on these pairings, Validated Designs offer a balanced environment that aids companies in achieving quicker and more economical solutions.