AMD Instinct™ — Cluster Design and Deployment

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Design and Guides

Configure, validate, and optimize AMD Instinct™-based clusters.

Instinct Customer Acceptance Guide Comprehensive guide for configuring, validating, benchmarking, and baselining AMD Instinct™-based systems. Cluster Networking Guide Optimize the network for AMD Instinct™ GPU applications. MI3XX Reference Design Reference design materials and topology examples for the AMD Instinct™ MI3XX platform. Data Center Design Guide How to plan and design the modern AI data center. AMD-DriveNets System Reference Architecture Validated, end-to-end reference architecture for building and operating large-scale AI GPU clusters using AMD Instinct MI350-series (MI355X) compute paired with the DriveNets AI Fabric networking solution.

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Articles and Overviews

Technical analyses and background reading that span AMD Instinct™ products.

Comparative Analysis of Scale-Out RoCE Network Traffic Patterns and Loads in Training Large Language Models Compares RoCE network traffic patterns and loads across GPT-4, Llama 3, DeepSeek-V2, and Grok 4.0 LLM training. AMD Instinct™ Network Traffic, Congestion Trends, and Harmonics in Scale-Out Networks for AI Training Clusters Explore how synchronized GPU collectives create harmonic congestion in AI clusters and the strategies to diagnose and mitigate it.