New Goog­le Com­pu­te Engi­ne N2D vir­tu­al machi­nes (VMs) based on 2nd Gen AMD EPYC™ pro­ces­sors pro­vi­de dou­ble digit savings and per­for­mance impro­ve­ments over exis­ting N‑series instances

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 18, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) and Goog­le Cloud today announ­ced the beta avai­la­bi­li­ty of N2D VMs on Goog­le Com­pu­te Engi­ne powered by 2^nd Gen AMD EPYC^™ pro­ces­sors. The N2D fami­ly of VMs is a gre­at opti­on for cus­to­mers run­ning gene­ral pur­po­se and high-per­for­mance workloads requi­ring a balan­ce of com­pu­te and memory.

N2D VMs are desi­gned to pro­vi­de cus­to­mers with:

• High-per­for­mance 2^nd Gen AMD EPYC pro­ces­sors that pro­vi­de grea­ter fle­xi­bi­li­ty for cus­to­mers to choo­se the best VM for their workload and up to a 39% per­for­mance impro­ve­ment on the Core­mark bench­mark ver­sus com­pa­ra­ble N1 ins­tances while offe­ring a savings of up to 13% over com­pa­ra­ble N‑series instances,
• 128 and 224 vCPUs con­fi­gu­ra­ti­on opti­ons that offer up to 70% hig­her plat­form memo­ry band­width com­pared to exis­ting com­pa­ra­ble VMs in the Goog­le Com­pu­te Engi­ne cata­lo­gue for HPC workloads requi­ring high memo­ry bandwidth,
• Access to hig­her plat­form memo­ry band­width and hig­her core counts, lea­ding to a 100% per­for­mance impro­ve­ment on a varie­ty of bench­marks, inclu­ding Gro­macs and NAMD, com­pared to n1-stan­dard-96 vCPUs.

“Cloud pro­vi­ders and hos­ters around the world reco­gni­ze the fan­ta­stic core sca­ling, mas­si­ve memo­ry band­width, impres­si­ve TCO savings and record set­ting per­for­mance of the 2^nd Gen AMD EPYC pro­ces­sors,” said For­rest Nor­rod, seni­or vice pre­si­dent and gene­ral mana­ger, Dat­a­cen­ter and Embedded Solu­ti­ons Busi­ness, AMD. “AMD and Goog­le have work­ed tog­e­ther clo­se­ly on the­se initi­al VMs to help ensu­re Goog­le Cloud cus­to­mers have a high-per­for­mance and cost-effec­ti­ve expe­ri­ence across a varie­ty of workloads, and we will con­ti­nue to work tog­e­ther to pro­vi­de that expe­ri­ence this year and beyond.”

AMD EPYC Pro­ces­sors, Powe­ring the Modern Cloud
AMD EPYC pro­ces­sors power more than 120 VMs types from cloud pro­vi­ders and hos­ters around the world giving end cus­to­mers access to powerful, cost effec­ti­ve and fle­xi­ble use VMs.

The beta N2D VMs on Goog­le Cloud Plat­form are available in us-cen­tral1, asia-sou­the­as­t1, and euro­pe-wes­t4, with more regi­ons on the way. You can read more about the VMs and at the Goog­le Cloud Plat­form blog here and visit the Goog­le Cloud Con­so­le to get started.

Sup­port­ing Resources

• Learn more about AMD EPYC pro­ces­sors here
• Learn more about AMD EPYC for the cloud here
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Cont­act:
Aaron Grabein
AMD Communications
(512) 602‑8950
aaron.grabein@amd.com

Lau­ra Graves
AMD Inves­tor Relations
(408) 749‑5467
laura.graves@amd.com