Advancing Healthcare in a Fast-Evolving Landscape

For Healthcare organizations, success often depends on the ability to implement cohesive, data-driven digital ecosystems that can keep pace with these emerging trends.

AI and Advanced Analytics

Edge devices are generating massive quantities of real-time patient data—necessitating AI and advanced analytics capabilities that help interpret this data to provide better treatment recommendations.

High Performance Computing

High Performance Computing (HPC) is increasingly being leveraged for medical image processing, robotic surgery, data-driven diagnosis and treatment, and complex virtual modeling and simulations.

Health Record System Transformation

Hospitals are highly incentivized to move from paper records to Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems. These systems manage, distribute, and secure large quantities of patient data.

Shift Towards Telemedicine

Telemedicine exploded in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, accelerating new kinds of patient / physician interactions that increase demands on IT infrastructure.

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Use Cases

Electronic Health and Medical Records (EMR/EHR)

AMD EPYC™ 9004 processor

AMD EPYC Processors

AMD EPYC server processors deliver leadership performance for latency-sensitive data center and multi-cloud applications such as EHR.

AMD processors are certified for the Epic EHR system. Organizations can achieve up to 34.2 million global references per second with 2P EPYC 9654 servers and up to 2.55X higher performance vs. 2P EPYC 7763 servers—supporting up to 30% more users per server.

 

High Performance Computing and Life Sciences

AMD EPYC™ 9004 processor

AMD EPYC Processors

With leadership memory bandwidth and per-core performance, AMD EPYC processors are uniquely well-suited to power compute-intensive HPC / Life Sciences workloads across genomics, drug discovery, and beyond. 

AMD Instinct™ Accelerators

AMD Instinct™ GPU accelerators supercharge HPC, enabling organizations to process the massive amounts of real-time patient data more efficiently, accelerate time-to-insight, and drive better treatment recommendations. 

Alveo U55c High Performance Compute Card

AMD Alveo™ Accelerators

AMD Alveo™ adaptive accelerators are uniquely suited for low latency acceleration of high performance algorithms and workloads. The AMD Alveo U55C accelerator card is purpose-built for HPC, enabled by FPGA fabric for dense compute, HBM2 for memory bound workloads, and network connectivity for massive scale out via Ethernet.

Performance Data

11+ Genomes / Day

~11 more human genomes processed per day on Sentieon® with 4th Gen AMD EPYC vs. competitive solutions1

107% Uplift

~107% higher performance on NAMD with 2P AMD EPYC 9754 vs. 2P Intel Xeon 8480+  

119% Uplift

~119% higher performance on GROMACS with 2P AMD EPYC 9754 vs. 2P Intel Xeon 8480+

42% Uplift

~42% higher performance on Quantum ESPRESSO with 2P AMD EPYC 9754 vs. 2P Intel Xeon 8480+

AI and Advanced Analytics

AMD Instinct Accelerators

AMD Instinct GPU accelerators supercharge AI, enabling organizations to process the massive amounts of real-time patient data more efficiently, accelerate time-to-insight, and drive better treatment recommendations.

Alveo U250 Data Center Accelerator Card

AMD Alveo Adaptive Accelerators

AMD Alveo U200 and U250 accelerator cards can improve real- time processing speed and enable AI capabilities, helping physicians make fast diagnoses. In medical research, these cards can be used to implement molecular dynamics algorithms, perform complex calculations, and even accelerate the simulation of biomolecules.

Enterprise IT

AMD EPYC™ 9004 processor

AMD EPYC Processors

AMD EPYC server processors deliver exceptional performance, energy efficiency, and security features for general IT workloads. EPYC-based solutions hold world-record performance across Database and Analytics, HCI and Virtualization, and more.

 

Performance Data

73% Uplift

~73% faster integer performance with 2P EPYC 9754 vs. Xeon Platinum 859222

2X Uplift

~2X virtualization performance with 2P EPYC 9684X vs. Xeon Platinum 8490H on VMmark® 3.1.1 matched pair3

2X Uplift

~2X higher transactions / sec on OLTP MySQL with 2P EPYC 9754 vs. Xeon Platinum 8490H running TPROC-C workloads4

42% Uplift

~42% faster analytics with 6-node 1P EPYC 96C 9654 vs 6-node 2P Xeon 8480+ on TPC-DS @ 3TB for Cloudera CDP5

Edge Computing

AMD adaptive computing solutions power a wide range of edge applications—from surgical robots, to CT scan machinery, to ultrasound devices, smart hospital beds, and more.

AMD Versal

AMD Versal™ Adaptive SoCs

AMD Versal™ is a powerful adaptive SoC built on a highly integrated, multicore platform. Featuring dynamically customizable hardware and software, the Versal SoC is suited for a wide range of compute-intensive healthcare applications.

AMD Zynq 7000 SoC

AMD Zynq™ Adaptive SoCs

AMD Zynq™ adaptive SoCs combine the software programmability of ARM-based processors with the hardware programmability of FPGAs. They deliver exceptional performance/watt while integrating CPU, DSP, ASSP, and mixed-signal functionality on a single device.

AMD Kintex Ultrascale+, AMD Virtex Ultrascale+, AMD Spartan Ultrascale+, AMD Artix Ultrascale+

AMD FPGAs

AMD FPGAs are built on the production-proven UltraScale+ architecture, enabling developers to scale their designs across various device families. At a high level, Spartan and Artix FPGAs are designed for lower-cost systems. Kintex FPGAs provide the price/performance needed for mid-range applications, while Virtex devices are ideal for high-end applications.

Kria K26 System-on-Module

AMD Kria™ SOMs

The Kria™ portfolio of adaptive system-on modules (SOMs) can help simplify healthcare equipment design with a wide selection of pre-built, hardware-accelerated applications. This allows developers to immediately focus on product differentiation, potentially shaving months off design cycles.

AMD EPYC Embedded 9004 Series

AMD EPYC™ Embedded Processors

AMD EPYC™ embedded server processors are designed for exceptional performance for demanding workloads. They are a superb choice for CT scanners and other medical diagnostic equipment where rapid data processing can accelerate results.

AMD Ryzen Embedded R2000

AMD Ryzen™ Embedded Processors

AMD Ryzen™ Embedded processors are ideal for handheld medical devices and portable medical electronics. They enable advanced medical imaging capabilities for technicians and emergency first responders, and can also deliver high image transformation speeds to help reconstruct images from sparse data and make low-dose X-ray imaging possible.

Client

AMD solutions deliver outstanding performance and security features to meet the needs of the connected Healthcare workforce.

AMD Ryzen™ PRO Processors

AMD Ryzen PRO Desktop Processors

AMD Ryzen PRO desktop processors offer the advanced technology needed to maximize performance for professional applications and collaboration tools essential to business productivity.

AMD Ryzen™ Processors

AMD Ryzen Laptop Processors

AMD Ryzen processors are engineered for demanding business environments, delivering leadership performance and incredible power efficiency for a full spectrum of business laptops.

Image showing AMD Radeon™ PRO W7900 Graphics Card

AMD Radeon™ PRO Graphics

Explore the next generation of professional graphics—experience real-time effects, take advantage of AI-enabled features, and encode/decode workloads at the same time.

Development and Design Tools

Developers can leverage AMD libraries, starter kits, and more to accelerate the deployment of Healthcare solutions.

Vitis™ AI Medical Imaging Libraries

AMD offers the Vitis™ AI development platform to accelerate AI inference design. Vitis medical imaging libraries can be leveraged to rapidly deploy proprietary algorithms onto adaptive SoCs and take advantage of optimized hardware acceleration.

AMD Kria KR260 Robotics Starter Kit

Kria Robotics Starter Kit

For robotic applications, the Kria Robotics Stack enables developers to leverage a pre-built accelerated application based on the Robot Operating System 2 (ROS 2) as a starting point for next-generation designs.

AMD Kria KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit

Kria Vision AI Starter Kit

For machine vision-related applications, the Kria Vision AI Starter Kit is built for advanced vision application development without requiring complex hardware design knowledge.

Functional Safety Tools

Functional safety is a critical part of medical system design. Tools such as Isolation Design Flow (IDF), Vivado Isolation Verifier (VIV), and Isolation Verification Tools (IVT) provide developers a certified methodology to separate safety and non-safety functions on a single device.

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Footnotes
  1. SP5-167B: AMD testing as of  11/13/2023, . Sentieon® Release 202308 for read sorting. 2P 96-core EPYC 9654 on an AMD reference platform vsOracle cloud tested   NVIDIA Parabricks 4.2 with eight Nvidia H100 GPUS in a single server run. Published Oracle/Nvidia testing claims 14   minutes (102 Genomes/Day) to run a full sequence of the dataset HG002.novaseq.pcr-free.30x (end-to-end Parabricks germline workflow) on BM.GPU.H100.8 instances. https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/accelerate-genomic-analysis-for-any-sequencer-with-parabricks-v4-2/?ncid=so-nvsh-821697&dysig_tid=ebd0be8791b5432b9b254574e4d515cf
  2. SP5-175A: SPECrate®2017_int_base comparison based on published scores from www.spec.org as of 01/03/2024. Comparison of published 2P AMD EPYC 9754 (1950 SPECrate®2017_int_base, 720 Total TDP W, 256 Total Cores, $30823 Est system $, 1047 est system W, https://www.spec.org/cpu2017/results/res2023q2/cpu2017-20230522-36617.html ) is 1.73x the performance of published 2P Intel Xeon Platinum 8592+ (1130 SPECrate®2017_int_base, 700 Total TDP W, 128 Total Cores, $27207 Est system $, 930 est system W, https://www.spec.org/cpu2017/results/res2023q4/cpu2017-20231127-40064.html ) [at 1.53x the performance/system W] [at 1.52x the performance/system $]. AMD 1Ku pricing and Intel ARK.intel.com specifications and pricing as of 01/03/2024. SPEC®, SPEC CPU®, and SPECrate® are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. See www.spec.org for more information. The system pricing and watt estimates are based on Bare Metal GHG TCO v9.60. Actual costs and system watts will vary.
  3. SP5-049D: VMmark® 3.1.1 matched pair comparison based on published results as of 9/19/2023. 2-node, 2P AMD EPYC 9684X, 384 total cores, SAN storage scoring 47.78 @ 46 tiles on VMmark 3.1.1.
    Source: https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/vmmark/2023-07-11-Supermicro-AS-2125HS-TNR.pdf
    • 2-node, 2P AMD EPYC 9754, 512 total cores, SAN storage scoring 44.15 @ 49 tiles on VMmark 3.1.1.
    Source: https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/vmmark/2023-06-13-Dell-PowerEdge-R7625.pdf
    • 2-node, 2P AMD EPYC 9654, 384 total cores, SAN storage scoring 40.66 @ 42 tiles on VMmark 3.1.1.
    Source: https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/vmmark/2023-06-13-Lenovo-ThinkSystem-SR665V3.pdf
    • 2-node, 2P AMD EPYC 9554, 256 total cores, SAN storage scoring 32.75 @ 32 tiles on VMmark 3.1.1
    Source: https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/vmmark/2023-08-22-Supermicro-AS-2125HS-TNR.pdf
    • 2-node, 2P AMD EPYC 7773X, 256 total cores, SAN storage scoring 23.64 @ 24 tiles on VMmark 3.1.1.
    Source: https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/vmmark/2022-08-09-Dell-PowerEdge-R7525.pdf
    • 2-node, 2P Intel Xeon Platinum 8490H, 240 total cores, SAN storage scoring 23.38 @ 23 tiles on VMmark 3.1.1.
    Source: https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/vmmark/2023-03-21-Fujitsu-PRIMERGY-RX2540M7.pdf
    VMmark is a registered trademark of VMware in the US or other countries.
  4. https://www.amd.com/content/dam/amd/en/documents/epyc-business-docs/performance-briefs/amd-epyc-9754-pb-cloud-native-workloads.pdf
  5. https://www.amd.com/content/dam/amd/en/documents/epyc-business-docs/performance-briefs/amd-epyc-9004-pb-cloudera.pdf