IBM Cloud Selects 3rd Gen AMD EPYC™ Processors for New Bare Metal Offering for Compute-Intensive Workloads
November 10 2021 - 9:00AM
AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announced today that IBM Cloud has chosen 3rd Gen
AMD EPYC™ processors to expand its bare metal service offerings
designed to power customers’ demanding workloads and solutions. The
new servers, featuring 128 cores, up to 4TB of memory and 10 NVMe
drives per server, give users full access to high-end, dual-socket
performance with AMD EPYC 7763 processors; a first for IBM Cloud in
a dual-socket platform.
“Our customers have a high demand for computing processing power
and the new 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors provide the high levels of
performance and scalability we were looking for,” said Suresh
Gopalakrishnan, vice president, IBM Cloud. “Our collaboration with
AMD has helped us deliver our highest core counts and bandwidth
ever available for IBM Cloud customers, to offer top market
performance for today and tomorrow’s demanding workloads.”
“IBM Cloud customers regularly running compute-intensive
workloads can see an immediate benefit to speed and scalability by
upgrading to 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors, while helping to deliver
a secure experience for end-users,” said Lynn Comp, corporate vice
president, Cloud Business Group, AMD. “Our continued collaboration
with IBM Cloud is further validation of the strong standing AMD
holds in the market as we deliver topline solutions that promote a
seamless experience for cloud partners and their customers.”
The combination of IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers with the AMD
EPYC 7763 processor is designed for customers seeking a diverse set
of workloads including, compute-intensive workloads, virtualized
environments, large-scale databases, and more. In addition, the
bare metal servers are ideal for hosting massive multiplayer online
(MMO) gaming environments. Hosting companies can achieve the low
latency, high-performance processing and memory and generous
bandwidth necessary for a reliable, responsive platform.
The AMD EPYC 7763 dual-socket bare metal server offering at IBM
Cloud includes:
- 128 CPU cores per server
- Maximum boosts up to 3.5 GHz (base 2.45 GHz)1
- Support for eight memory channels per socket with up to 4 TB
RAM
- Maximum 20 TB of bandwidth
- Advanced memory encryption enabling a secure boot process
- Supports two 10 GbE NICs
AMD EPYC 7763 processor-powered IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers are
now available from the IBM Cloud catalog.
Supporting Resources
- Learn more about AMD EPYC Processors
- Learn more about AMD EPYC Process for the Cloud
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1 Max boost for AMD EPYC processors is the maximum frequency
achievable by any single core on the processor under normal
operating conditions for server systems. EPYC-18
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AMD Communications
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AMD Investor Relations
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