Taipei — April 6, 2020 —
AMD announced that IBM Cloud is enhancing its global infrastructure
with 2nd Gen AMD EPYC™ processors to power its latest bare metal servers.
With the addition of the AMD EPYC 7642 processor to its cloud portfolio, IBM is
engineered to deliver increased computing performance in its bare metal
offerings. Available now, these new bare metal servers are the first 2nd
Gen AMD EPYC™ based offering from IBM Cloud and are focused on the computing
power and performance required to accelerate modern workloads like data
analytics, electronic design automation, artificial intelligence and
virtualized and containerized workloads.
“2nd
Gen AMD EPYC processors deliver where it counts for cloud providers, providing
the cores, scalability and throughput for critical workloads,” said Forrest
Norrod, senior vice president and general manager, Data Center and Embedded
Solutions, AMD. “We are extremely excited to extend the advantages of 2nd
Gen AMD EPYC processors to new bare metal offerings at IBM Cloud, helping
customers tackle today’s compute-intensive workloads.”
"We are thrilled to launch new IBM Cloud
offerings powered by the 2nd Gen AMD EPYC CPUs,” says Satinder Sethi, GM, IBM
Cloud Infrastructure Services. “With these new processors, we can offer
IBM Cloud clients greater choice and flexibility to select the platform that is
best suited to meet the needs of today’s most demanding workloads. We
look forward to continuing to deliver new innovations and value to our clients
in the future."
The AMD EPYC 7642 based, dual socket bare
metal server offering at IBM Cloud includes:
•
96 CPU cores per
platform
•
Base clock
frequency of 2.3GHz with a Max Boost up to 3.3GHz[i]
•
8 memory channels
per socket for superior memory bandwidth
•
Up to 4TB memory
configuration support
•
Up to 24 local
storage drives
•
OS choices of
RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, MS Server
•
Monthly, pay-as-you-use billing
•
Orderable via the global IBM Cloud Catalogue,
API, or CLI
The bare metal servers are being made
available in IBM Data Centers across the North America, Europe, and Asia
Pacific regions. The AMD EPYC 7642 based servers can be ordered via the IBM
Cloud global catalogue portal, API or CLI and consumed in a monthly
pay-as-you-use model. Visit IBM
Cloud to start building a bare metal server
configuration with 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors.
[i] 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