SANTA CLARA, Calif. , Feb. 10, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announ­ced that AMD EPYC™ pro­ces­sors will power the new C2D vir­tu­al machi­ne offe­ring from Goog­le Cloud, brin­ging cus­to­mers strong per­for­mance and com­pu­te power for high-per­for­mance (HPC) memo­ry-bound workloads in are­as like elec­tro­nic design auto­ma­ti­on (EDA) and com­pu­ta­tio­nal flu­id dyna­mics (CFD). This announce­ment con­ti­nues the momen­tum for AMD EPYC pro­ces­sors, mar­king the third fami­ly of ins­tances powered by 3rd Gen EPYC pro­ces­sors at Goog­le Cloud, joi­ning the T2D and N2D instances.

 

With the help of AMD EPYC pro­ces­sors and its high core den­si­ty, the C2D VMs will pro­vi­de the lar­gest VM sizes within com­pu­te opti­mi­zed fami­ly at Goog­le Cloud. As well, becau­se of the EPYC processor’s per­for­mance for com­pu­te focu­sed workloads, Goog­le Cloud show­ca­sed the C2D VMs can pro­vi­de up to 30 per­cent bet­ter per­for­mance for tar­ge­ted workloads com­pared to pre­vious gene­ra­ti­on EPYC based VMs at a com­pa­ra­ble size1.

 

The use of AMD EPYC pro­ces­sors for HPC and com­pu­te focu­sed workloads con­ti­nues to expand as more cloud ser­vice pro­vi­ders, like Goog­le Cloud, are using EPYC to address their cus­to­mers’ most deman­ding and inten­se workloads. This goes on top of the exis­ting capa­bi­li­ties of EPYC for HPC workloads, inclu­ding powe­ring 73 super­com­pu­ters on the latest Top500 list and hol­ding 70 HPC world records2.

 

“AMD EPYC pro­ces­sors con­ti­nue to show­ca­se their capa­bi­li­ties for HPC and com­pu­te focu­sed workloads, whe­ther run­ning drug simu­la­ti­ons for the latest vac­ci­nes, explo­ring the cos­mos, or hel­ping design cri­ti­cal hard­ware and elec­tro­nics for the future of indus­try,” said Lynn Comp, cor­po­ra­te vice pre­si­dent, Cloud Busi­ness, AMD. “The Goog­le Cloud C2D ins­tances with AMD EPYC pro­ces­sors will enable Goog­le Cloud cus­to­mers to run some of their most com­plex and inten­se workloads with ease, hel­ping them design their pro­ducts or sol­ve com­plex pro­blems, faster.”

“Goog­le Cloud cus­to­mers want ins­tances that sup­port com­plex, per­for­mance-sen­si­ti­ve workloads, such as high per­for­mance com­pu­ting. VMs powered by AMD EPYC pro­ces­sors enable the per­for­mance and fea­tures that are nee­ded for the­se cus­to­mers,” said Nirav Meh­ta, direc­tor of pro­duct manage­ment, Goog­le Cloud. “This is now our third vir­tu­al machi­ne fami­ly powered by 3rd Gen AMD EPYC pro­ces­sors, and we are exci­ted to con­ti­nue to grow our EPYC portfolio.”

 

You can read more about the new C2D ins­tances at the Goog­le Cloud blog here, whe­re cus­to­mers inclu­ding Air­Sha­per and Clutch dis­cuss how C2D per­for­mance impro­ved run times, chan­ged user expe­ri­en­ces, and cut costs.

 

C2D is gene­ral­ly available today and will expand to addi­tio­nal regi­ons in the coming months. Cur­rent loca­ti­ons are US-cen­tral1 (Iowa), Asia-sou­the­as­t1 (Sin­ga­po­re), US-eas­t1 (South Caro­li­na), US-eas­t4 (North Vir­gi­nia), Asia-eas­t1 (Tai­wan), and Euro­pe-wes­t4 (Net­her­lands).

 

Sup­port­ing Resources

 

Read the Goog­le C2D blog

Learn more about AMD EPYC Processors

Visit the Goog­le Cloud C2D ins­tances pro­duct detail page

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1 GD-182: Test­ing not inde­pendent­ly veri­fied by AMD

2 EPYC-22A: AMD EPYC Fami­ly of Pro­ces­sors set 250+ World Records as of 10/26/2021