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IBM Cloud Selects 3rd Gen AMD EPYC Processors for New Bare Metal Offering for Compute-Intensive Workloads

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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 4 TB 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.

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I am waiting for the press release that it will say

"Intel selects AMD's Milan X for it's latest servers......"
 
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I am waiting for the press release that it will say

"Intel selects AMD's Milan X for it's latest servers......"
you made my day ... errrr night with that post :laugh:
Damn now that you have mentioned that I am sure that IBM will cancel this partnership with AMD.
that one too :roll:

Volume is still low.. they can't break 50% server market
well that joke was not bad ... indeed, oh... wait ... not joking?

oops ...
Is this a joke? They used to have 1% marketshare. Now they're over 15X that being conservative. That's tremendous strides forward in about 3-4 years.
and that's what is exceptionally worth of mention ... plus a selection from IBM is not a small feat, well ... i think ...

(now that remind me what i saw this evening ... i can find a R7 5800X for a 12600F price aka sub 200chf ... at one of my retailer ... DAMN why Intel did not launch Adler Lake when i got my R5 3600 a month or so ago, :ohwell: i did not pay for it ... but it was priced at 199chf in listings, oh and a R9 5900X for ~320chf not a big drop like the 5800X but still interesting offer, that's just 50chf more than what a 5600X did cost yesterday and that was my next upgrade later :laugh: )
 
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Its excellent marketing to have a party like IBM selecting "your" platform.

In some years from this point on AMD will only grow. Half of the price, double the performance compared to Intel.
Did you see Microsuck's benchmarks of Milan X? Intel is beyond embarrassed (and still using double the power).
 
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Amd server chips are not realible as intel... intel xeon was used for the Olympics 8k.. thats shows prestige and respect
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IBM has a cloud?
IBM bought Softlayer several years ago. At one point in time we were hosted at Softlayer, but moved away because of insane prices. With IBM prices got even insaner, they are raping people on things like memory upgrades and storage



Yeah that's per month.. want another 256 GB of memory, hey, we'll only charge you $500 more per month
 
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Volume is still low.. they can't break 50% server market
You are missing the point. While it is a fact that they market share is still low, the fact that more and more big companies are willing to use/try AMD's product may eventually cause further market share lost for Intel if that experience turns out positive. In addition, Intel is facing stiffer competition from ARM as more and more big companies are switching to custom processors with ARM cores. So it is not a matter of Intel vs AMD anymore. And you can see the result not just from market share, but from the fact that Intel's DC revenue is declining or fairly low. Even if they managed to sell, I feel they have to adjust prices and can no longer charge like how they used to when they monopolised the market.
 
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Its excellent marketing to have a party like IBM selecting "your" platform.

In some years from this point on AMD will only grow. Half of the price, double the performance compared to Intel.
Microsoft released benchmarks of the new Milan-X and along with having 42%-50% lower memory latency that regular Milan, it showed serious performance improvements as well.. Mbasically extending the lead over Intel. Although we can't directly apply this to Zen3 with V-cache, it's beginning to look like AMD's V-cache seems to be the real deal, and now I wouldn't be surprised if Zen3 with V-cache simply erases Alder lake's lead (while using half the power). It really gets me excited for Zen4 which has already had rumors of a 29% IPC increase... Add in 5nm and V-cache, and it could be something special.




Amd server chips are not realible as intel... intel xeon was used for the Olympics 8k.. thats shows prestige and respect
So I guess Microsoft and IBM don't know what they're doing with using Milan-X for their cloud services? Or Facebook either? Or the currently being built world's most powerful supercomputers? I mean, being deployed in the most powerful supercomputers in the world, especially those owned by governments definitely doesn't speak to the reliability does it?
 
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IBM bought Softlayer several years ago. At one point in time we were hosted at Softlayer, but moved away because of insane prices. With IBM prices got even insaner, they are raping people on things like memory upgrades and storage



Yeah that's per month.. want another 256 GB of memory, hey, we'll only charge you $500 more per month
Wow that is crazy pricing. The comment was meant more as a joke as no one really talks about IBM’s cloud, but after seeing that pricing I can see why. Learned a bit more about the though so thanks!
 

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Wow that is crazy pricing. The comment was meant more as a joke as no one really talks about IBM’s cloud, but after seeing that pricing I can see why. Learned a bit more about the though so thanks!
Seems they are strictly targeting enterprise customers now who are not spending their own money. I hear support is not that awesome though, even for people spending 10k+ a month with them
 
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