SANTA CLARA, Calif. — 11/10/2021- AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announ­ced today that IBM Cloud has cho­sen 3^rd 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 3^rd 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 3^rd 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
• Fol­low AMD on Twit­ter
• Con­nect with AMD on Lin­ke­dIn

About AMD

For more than 50 years AMD has dri­ven inno­va­ti­on in high-per­for­mance com­pu­ting, gra­phics and visua­liza­ti­on tech­no­lo­gies ― the buil­ding blocks for gam­ing, immersi­ve plat­forms and the dat­a­cen­ter. Hundreds of mil­li­ons of con­su­mers, lea­ding For­tu­ne 500 busi­nesses and cut­ting-edge sci­en­ti­fic rese­arch faci­li­ties around the world rely on AMD tech­no­lo­gy dai­ly to impro­ve how they live, work and play. AMD employees around the world are focu­sed on buil­ding gre­at pro­ducts that push the boun­da­ries of what is pos­si­ble. For more infor­ma­ti­on about how AMD is enab­ling today and inspi­ring tomor­row, visit the AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) web­site, blog, Face­book and Twit­ter pages.

AMD, the AMD Arrow logo and EPYC, are trade­marks of Advan­ced Micro Devices, Inc. Other names are for infor­ma­tio­nal pur­po­ses only and may be trade­marks of their respec­ti­ve owners.

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