Updated WRF benchmarks (Q1 2022)
One of the great things about working with public CSPs is that they continue bringing the latest hardware options from different manufacturers to the benefit of all of us. We continue evaluating the performance of several HPC apps with the latest hardware so that our customers can make informed decisions. Our updated round of WRF benchmarks include measurements with Intel Ice Lake and AMD EPYC3 (Milan) processors from AWS and Azure.
The figure reflects overall WRF performance on computing and high-performance-computing instances from AWS and Azure.
The above WRF performance has been evaluated from an assemble of several test cases ranging from a single domain (1,500 x 1,500 points) to forecast with several nested domains. The overall performance, which is essentially inversely proportional to wall times, is weighted from these test cases and normalized with a maximum score of 100% for an instance being the best performer for every test case.
The measurements reflect performance on the following instances:
AWS 5th generation
AWS c5n.18xlarge – 36 cores (Intel Xeon Platinum 8124 – Skylake), 192 GBytes; price (N. Va. region): on-demand: $3.888/hr; spot: $1.1688/hr
AWS m5zn.12xlarge – 24 cores (Intel Xeon Platinum 8252C – Cascade Lake), 192 GBytes; price (N. Va. region): on-demand price: $3.9641/hr; spot price: $0.982/hr
AWS 6th generation
AWS c6g.16xlarge – 64 cores (AWS Graviton2 – Arm Neoverse 1), 192 GBytes; price (N. Va. region): on-demand: $2.176/hr; spot: $1.0882/hr
AWS c6i.32xlarge – 64 cores (Intel Xeon Platinum 8375C – Ice Lake), 256 GBytes; price (N. Va. region): on-demand: $5.44/hr; spot: $2.1764/hr
AWS m6a.48xlarge – 96 cores (AMD EPYC 7R13 – EPYC 3), 768 GBytes; price (N. Va. region): on-demand: $8.2944/hr; spot: $3.4279/hr
AWS hpc6a.48xlarge – 96 cores (AMD EPYC 7R13 – EPYC 3), 384 GBytes; price (Ohio region): on-demand: $2.88/hr
Azure
Azure Das96_v4 – 48 cores (AMD EPYC 7003), 384 GBytes; price (U.S. South Central region): on-demand $5.53/hr, spot: $1.1613/hr
Azure HB120rs_v2 – 120 cores (AMD EPYC 7002 – EPYC 2) 456 GB; price (U.S. South Central region) on-demand: $4.105/hr, spot-price:$0.532/hr
Azure HB120rs_v3 – 120 cores (AMD EPYC 7003 – EPYC 3) 448 GB; price (U.S. South Central region) on-demand: $4.105/hr, spot-price:$1.584/hr
Contact us if you have any question about WRF performance or cost.