{"id":2583,"date":"2022-08-10T10:38:45","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T17:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.pugetsystems.com\/?post_type=recommended_system&#038;p=2583"},"modified":"2026-01-06T12:29:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T20:29:24","slug":"hardware-recommendations","status":"publish","type":"recommended_system","link":"https:\/\/www.pugetsystems.com\/solutions\/high-performance-computing\/scientific-computing\/hardware-recommendations\/","title":{"rendered":"Hardware Recommendations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover full-width-no-gap\" style=\"min-height:361px;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"800\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-15794\" alt=\"Scientific Workflow Page Header\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-cdn.pugetsystems.com\/2022\/08\/Scientific-Header.png\" style=\"object-position:45% 50%\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" data-object-position=\"45% 50%\"\/><span aria-hidden=\"true\" 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in the right direction for your next workstation.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-left is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-fdcfc74e wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-black-color has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"\/solutions\/scientific-computing-workstations\/scientific-computing\/\"><strong>Browse Our Recommended Systems<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:28%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover is-light full-width\" style=\"min-height:50px;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-100 has-background-dim\" 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class=\"menu-recommended-systems-scientific-computing-container\"><ul id=\"workflow-menu\" class=\"nav nav-pills nav-fill flex-column flex-lg-row workflow-menu\"><li id=\"menu-item-17826\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-recommended_system menu-item-17826 nav-item depth-0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pugetsystems.com\/solutions\/high-performance-computing\/scientific-computing\/hardware-recommendations\/\" class=\"nav-link\">Hardware Recommendations<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-17827\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-recommended_system menu-item-17827 nav-item depth-0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pugetsystems.com\/solutions\/high-performance-computing\/scientific-computing\/\" class=\"nav-link\">Suggested Systems<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-17828\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-recommended_system menu-item-17828 nav-item depth-0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pugetsystems.com\/solutions\/high-performance-computing\/scientific-computing\/buy-316\/\" class=\"nav-link\">Intel Xeon<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-17829\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-recommended_system menu-item-17829 nav-item depth-0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pugetsystems.com\/solutions\/high-performance-computing\/scientific-computing\/buy-315\/\" class=\"nav-link\">AMD Threadripper PRO<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-28767\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-recommended_system menu-item-28767 nav-item depth-0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pugetsystems.com\/solutions\/high-performance-computing\/scientific-computing\/buy-466\/\" class=\"nav-link\">AMD Dual EPYC<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Scientific Computing System Requirements<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center border rounded p-2 has-background\" style=\"background-color:#f2f2f2\"><strong>Quickly Jump To: <a href=\"#cpu\">Processor (CPU)<\/a>\u00a0\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"#gpu\">Video Card (GPU)<\/a>\u00a0\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"#ram\">Memory (RAM)<\/a>\u00a0\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"#storage\">Storage (Drives)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scientific Computing is a vast domain! There are thousands of &#8220;scientific&#8221; applications and it is often the case that what you are working with is based on your own code development efforts. Performance bottlenecks can arise from many types of hardware, software, and job-run characteristics. Recommendations on &#8220;system requirements&#8221; published by software vendors (or developers) may not be ideal. They could be based on outdated testing or limited configuration variation. However, it is possible to make some general recommendations. The Q&amp;A discussion below, with answers provided by&nbsp;<a href=\"\/about-us\/bio\/donkinghorn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dr. Donald Kinghorn<\/a>, will hopefully prove useful. We also recommend that you visit his&nbsp;<a href=\"\/all_hpc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Puget Systems HPC blog<\/a>&nbsp;for more info.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" id=\"cpu\">Processor (CPU)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The CPU may be the most important consideration for a scientific computing workstation. The best choice will depend on the parallel scalability of your application, memory access patterns, and whether GPU acceleration is available or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What CPU is best for scientific computing?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>There are two main choices: Intel Xeon\u00ae (single or dual socket) and AMD Threadripper\u2122 PRO \/ EPYC\u2122 (which are based on the same technology). For the majority of cases our recommendation is single socket processors like Xeon-W and Threadripper PRO. 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To better understand that, check out the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pugetsystems.com\/labs\/hpc\/Intel-Xeon-E5-v4-Broadwell-Buyers-Guide-Parallel-Performance-820\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">info about Amdhal&#8217;s Law<\/a>&nbsp;in our HPC blog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, if your application is memory-bound then it will be limited by memory channels and may give best performance with fewer cores. However, it is often an advantage to have many cores to provide more available higher level cache &#8211; even if you use less than half of the available cores on a regular basis. For a well scaling application, an Intel or AMD 32-core CPU will likely give good, balanced hardware utilization and performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-what-hardware-components-are-most-important-for-scientific-and-engineering-simulation-applications\">What hardware components are most important for Scientific and Engineering Simulation applications?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Simulation workloads are the most common type of scientific computing. That includes molecular dynamics, computational chemistry, FEA, CFD, physics\u2014pretty much all of scientific and engineering computing that isn&#8217;t searching, sorting, pattern matching, or counting something, like Genomics, for example. Many of these simulation workflows will have differing requirements. Some will be highly parallel, and some will be cache-limited or memory-bound. Hardware recommendations will also depend on problem size; you must have enough memory to run your job! The key factors that determine hardware recommendations for simulation workloads are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Parallel scalability &#8211;<\/strong> This needs to be determined on an individual application basis. Code authors\/vendors or the user community will have information discussing this.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Memory requirements &#8211;<\/strong> This, again, is dependent on the application, but a common rule of thumb is to have 4-8GB CPU memory per physical core. For example, a 64-core CPU would want 256 &#8211; 512GB of memory.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Memory boundedness &#8211; <\/strong> The key differentiators are simulations involving numerical mesh-based &#8220;solvers&#8221; that may be memory-bound. This is a common issue, and failure to take it into account can result in a system configuration that may be over-spec for core count and amount of memory and bottlenecked by not having enough memory channels. Intel&#8217;s Xeon and AMD&#8217;s Threadripper PRO as well as EPYC are recommended. Dual EPYC CPUs will provide 24 total memory channels!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"520\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-cdn.pugetsystems.com\/2022\/08\/hpcg-bar.png\" alt=\"HPCG bar chart of results in GFLOPS for TrPRO 7995WX, 7985WX, Tr 7980X and Xeon w9-3495X\" class=\"wp-image-25944\" style=\"width:800px\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pugetsystems.com\/labs\/hpc\/amd-zen4-threadripper-pro-vs-intel-xeon-w9-for-science-and-engineering\/#HPCG-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Example of a workload that is memory-bound<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>An increasing number of simulation codes are also running on GPU with great success, instead of the traditional CPU focus. When there is a GPU-accelerated version of an application, you should probably be using it! However, many important applications have not been ported to GPU because of programming difficulty\/complexity. Time will tell, but mixed precision algorithms on GPU are very likely the future!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Does scientific computing work better with Intel or AMD CPUs?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Either Intel Xeon or AMD Threadripper PRO processors are excellent. Both modern Xeon and Threadripper chips support AVX512, but older generations of AMD hardware were limited to AVX2. As long as you are buying a current-gen system, and not a consumer-grade platfrom, then they are equal there. However, newer Xeon processors do have a new edge: Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) and support for new data types like BF16. Those can have a big impact on mixed-precision workloads like AI computing. If your application is specifically linked with Intel MKL, or was built using an Intel compiler, then an Intel CPU is a good choice.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"520\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-cdn.pugetsystems.com\/2022\/08\/hpl-mxp-bar.png\" alt=\"HPL-MxP(AI) bar chart of results in GFLOPS for TrPRO 7995WX, 7985WX, Tr 7980X and Xeon w9-3495X\" class=\"wp-image-25946\" style=\"width:800px\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pugetsystems.com\/labs\/hpc\/amd-zen4-threadripper-pro-vs-intel-xeon-w9-for-science-and-engineering\/#HPL-MxPAI-2\">Example of a workload that benefits from Intel-specific processor capabilities<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-why-are-xeon-or-threadripper-pro-recommended-rather-than-more-consumer-level-cpus\">Why are Xeon or Threadripper PRO recommended rather than more &#8220;consumer&#8221; level CPUs?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The most important reason for this recommendation is memory channels. Both Intel Xeon W-3500 and AMD Threadripper PRO 7000 Series support 8 memory channels, which can have a significant impact on performance for many scientific applications. AMD&#8217;s EPYC 9004 &amp; 9005 series go even further, with 12 memory channels per CPU! 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Do you need double precision (FP64) for your application? If so, then you are limited to the NVIDIA compute series &#8211; such as the L40S or H200. These GPUs are passively cooled and are suitable for use in rack mounted chassis with the needed cooling capability. None of the RTX GPUs, consumer or professional, have good double precision support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fortunately, many scientific applications that have GPU acceleration work with single precision (FP32). In this case the higher end RTX GPUs offer good performance and relatively low cost. GPUs like the RTX 6000 Ada and RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q are high quality and work well in multi-GPU configurations. Consumer GPUs like GeForce RTX 5080 and 5090 can give very good performance but may be difficult to configure in a system with more than two GPUs because of cooling design and physical size.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to the considerations already mentioned, memory size may be important is in general can be a limiting factor in the use of GPUs for compute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How much VRAM (video memory) does scientific computing need?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>This can vary depending on the application. Many applications will give good acceleration with as little as 12GB of GPU memory. However, if you are working with large jobs or big data sets then 32GB (4500 Blackwell, RTX 5090), 48GB (5000 Blackwell), or even 96GB (6000 Blackwell) may be required. For the most demanding jobs, NVIDIA&#8217;s H200 NVL compute GPU comes with a staggering 141GB of VRAM!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Will multiple GPUs improve performance in scientific computing?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Again this will depend on the application. Multi-GPU acceleration is not automatic just because you have more than one GPU in your system. The software has to support it. However, if your application scales well by distributing data or work across the GPUs, perhaps with Horovod (MPI), then a multi-GPU workstation can offer performance approaching that of a supercomputer of the not too distant past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Does scientific computing need a &#8220;professional&#8221; video card?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Not necessarily &#8211; many important scientific calculations have been done on NVIDIA consumer GPUs. However, there are definitely things to consider &#8211; which we covered in more detail in the preceeding questions (above).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Does scientific computing run better on NVIDIA or AMD GPUs?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to their development of CUDA, and the numerous applications that use it, NVIDIA GPUs are currently the standard for scientific computing. While nearly all GPU-accelerated applications are built with CUDA, there is some usage of openCL (which is supported on AMD and NVIDIA GPUs) and there are utilities such as AMD&#8217;s own ROCm. However, those are not widely used and can be difficult to configure. This situation will certainly change as more work is done with the newly deployed AMD GPU-accelerated supercomputers and Intel\u2019s entry into the GPU compute acceleration realm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">When is GPU acceleration not appropriate for scientific computing?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>If you can use GPU acceleration then you probably should. However, if your application has memory demands exceeding that of GPUs or the high cost of NVIDIA compute GPUs is prohibitive then a many-core CPU may be appropriate instead. Of course if your application is not specifically written to support GPUs then there is no magic to make it work. 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In fact, memory bandwidth will be the chief bottleneck in memory-bound programs. Applications that involve \u201csolvers\u201d for simulations may be doing solutions of differential equations that are often memory bound. This ties in with our recommendation of CPUs that provide 8 memory channels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How much RAM does scientific computing need?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Since there are so many potential applications and job sizes this is highly dependent on the specific use case. It is fortunate that modern Intel and AMD workstation platforms support large memory configurations even in single-socket systems. For workflows focused on CPU-based calculations, 256 to 512GB is fairly typical &#8211; and even 1TB is not unheard of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How much system memory do I need if I\u2019m using GPU acceleration?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>There general guidance on this. It is highly recommended that the system be configured with at least twice as much system memory (RAM) as there is total GPU memory (VRAM) across all cards. For example, a system with two GeForce RTX 5090 GPUs (2 x 32 = 64GB total VRAM) should have at least 128GB of system memory. This system memory recommendation is to ensure that memory can be mapped from GPU space to CPU space and to provide staging and buffering for instruction and data transfer without stalling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" id=\"storage\">Storage (Hard Drives)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Storage is one of those areas where going with &#8220;more than you think you need&#8221; is probably a good idea. The actual amount will depend on what sort of data you are working with. It could range from a few 10\u2019s of gigabytes to several petabytes!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What storage configuration works best for scientific computing?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>A good general recommendation is to use a highly performant NVMe drive of capacity 1TB as the main system drive &#8211; for the OS and applications. You may be able to configure additional NVMe storage for data needs, however there are larger capacities available with &#8220;standard&#8221; (SATA based) SSDs. For very large storage demands, older-style platter drives can offer even higher capacity. For exceptionally large demands, external storage servers may be the best option.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">My application recommends configuring a &#8220;scratch space&#8221;, what should I use?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Scratch space has often been a configuration in quantum chemistry applications for storing integrals. There are other applications that also are built expecting an available scratch space. For these cases, an additional NVMe drive would be a very good option. However, if there is a configuration option in the software to avoid using out-of-core scratch then that may be the best option. The need for scratch space was common when system memory capacity was small. It is likely much better to increase your RAM size if it will let you avoid scratch space, as memory is orders of magnitude faster than even high-speed SSDs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-should-i-use-network-attached-storage-for-scientific-computing\">Should I use network attached storage for scientific computing?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pugetsystems.com\/workstations\/storage\/\">Network-attached storage<\/a> is another consideration. It\u2019s become more common for workstation motherboards to have 10Gb Ethernet ports, allowing for network storage connections with reasonably good performance without the need for more specialized networking add-ons. Rackmount workstations and servers can have even faster network connections, often using more advanced cabling than simple RJ45, making <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pugetsystems.com\/workstations\/sds\/\">options like software-defined storage<\/a> appealing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover is-light full-width\" style=\"min-height:50px;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-100 has-background-dim\" style=\"background-color:#f2f2f2\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-bootstrap-blocks-container container mb-0\">\n\t\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-bootstrap-blocks-row row puget-icon-section cta-original\">\n\t\n\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-6\">\n\t\t\t\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-thumbnail is-resized text-center\"><a href=\"\/solutions\/ai-and-hpc-workstations\/scientific-computing\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-cdn.pugetsystems.com\/2022\/12\/computer-icon.png\" alt=\"Tower Computer Icon in Puget Systems Colors\" class=\"wp-image-12659\" style=\"width:113px;height:113px\" title=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#130c64\">Looking for a Scientific Computing workstation?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">We build computers that are tailor-made for your workflow.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-bootstrap-blocks-button text-center\">\n\t<a\n\t\thref=\"\/solutions\/ai-and-hpc-workstations\/scientific-computing\/\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"btn btn-primary\"\n\t>\n\t\tConfigure a System\t<\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-6\">\n\t\t\t\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-thumbnail is-resized text-center\"><a href=\"\/contact-expert\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-cdn.pugetsystems.com\/2022\/08\/talking-icon.png\" alt=\"Talking Head Icon in Puget Systems Colors\" class=\"wp-image-12657\" style=\"width:113px;height:113px\" title=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#130c64\">Don&#8217;t know where to start? 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