Keysight and AMD Break Barriers to Redefine Benchmarking for Cloud and Edge Infrastructure Performance
March 05 2024 - 11:00AM
Business Wire
- Solution tests mobile and 5G private network performance with
millions of concurrent devices establishing simultaneous voice,
video, and web sessions in real-world scenarios
- Supports a wide variety of industry use cases like smart
manufacturing and smart energy grids that must connect millions of
low-latency, high-bandwidth devices
- New methodology uses realistic traffic generation to uncover a
CPU’s true power and scalability while observing bandwidth
requirements, enabling better network provisioning
Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS) leveraged 4th
generation AMD EPYC™ CPUs from Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
(NASDAQ: AMD) to develop an industry first benchmarking methodology
that redefines the landscape of system performance evaluation for
high-speed digital designers, network equipment manufacturers, and
data center operators.
The deployment of mobile and 5G private networks is expected to
grow rapidly across many industries as part of their automation and
digital transformation strategy. This diverse set of industry use
cases requires a versatile compute architecture that can
simultaneously support millions of low-latency, high-bandwidth
devices, and a multifaceted workload profile. Given this
transformation, comprehensive infrastructure benchmarking is
critical to ensure optimal performance across a spectrum of
industry use cases.
To provide more realistic performance benchmarks, Keysight in
collaboration with AMD developed an integrated test case
methodology that takes into account the processing power of central
processing units (CPUs). Using realistic traffic emulation, this
novel approach enables data center operators to extract more
performance from a chosen CPU and to characterize the performance
across multiple vectors while adhering to bandwidth requirements.
The methodology was developed by deploying Keysight’s software
tools onto AMD EPYC™ processors to conduct staged test cases with
realistic traffic at scale.
Highlights of the test case methodology include:
- Infrastructure scalability – In settings such as smart
grids and smart manufacturing, smooth and reliable operation
requires handling millions of concurrent devices. Traditional
benchmarks frequently overlook the CPU's capacity and its
capability to handle a considerably higher concurrent load as the
network’s bandwidth constraints obscure this ability. This new
benchmarking approach is designed to uncover the true CPU power and
scalability in these environments.
- Real-life authenticity – Mobile and 5G private networks
support specialized fields like vision-based smart manufacturing,
extended reality (XR) viewership, and retail workflows. Testing
infrastructure for its capability to handle realistic application,
voice, and video traffic is crucial. The new benchmark emphasizes
replicating bulk activities with millions of devices establishing
new sessions and including highly realistic scenarios like
subscribers initiating voice, video, and web calls. This insight
into real-world capabilities empowers data center operators to
provision their infrastructures accurately.
Raghu Nambiar, Corporate Vice President, Data Center
Ecosystems and Solutions, AMD, said: “5G mobile network
operators worldwide are facing an unprecedented demand for
bandwidth. This consistent growth of data traffic volume requires
scalable and effective benchmarking solutions to accurately measure
user experience. Our collaboration with Keysight demonstrates the
ability of AMD EPYC CPUs to deliver impressive parallel processing
performance to handle these high volumes of data traffic.”
Ram Periakaruppan, Vice President and General Manager,
Network Test & Security Solutions, Keysight, said: “Single
dimension benchmarking methodologies like throughput are
insufficient for data center operators to properly design and
deploy their compute infrastructure. New performance benchmarking
is needed in the modern mobile and 5G private networks. When used,
it highlights the prowess of the AMD ‘Zen 4’ chiplet architecture
to meet complex demands in those networks.”
Resources
- Whitepaper: Performance Benchmarking for 5G Networks
- Keysight CyPerf
- Data sheet: CyPerf
- Application Note: CyPerf
About Keysight Technologies
At Keysight (NYSE: KEYS), we inspire and empower innovators to
bring world-changing technologies to life. As an S&P 500
company, we’re delivering market-leading design, emulation, and
test solutions to help engineers develop and deploy faster, with
less risk, throughout the entire product lifecycle. We’re a global
innovation partner enabling customers in communications, industrial
automation, aerospace and defense, automotive, semiconductor, and
general electronics markets to accelerate innovation to connect and
secure the world. Learn more at Keysight Newsroom and
www.keysight.com.
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