Schlagwort: Azure

AMD Instinct™ MI200 Adopted for Large-Scale AI Training in Microsoft Azure

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ꟷ Micro­soft Azu­re is the first public cloud to deploy AMD Instinct MI200 acce­le­ra­tors ꟷ

SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 26, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) and Micro­soft con­tin­ued their col­la­bo­ra­ti­on in the cloud, with Micro­soft announ­cing the use of AMD Instinct™ MI200 acce­le­ra­tors to power lar­ge sca­le AI trai­ning workloads. In addi­ti­on, Micro­soft announ­ced it is working clo­se­ly with the PyTorch Core team and AMD data cen­ter soft­ware team to opti­mi­ze the per­for­mance and deve­lo­per expe­ri­ence for cus­to­mers run­ning PyTorch on Micro­soft Azu­re and ensu­re that deve­lo­pers’ PyTorch pro­jects take advan­ta­ge of the per­for­mance and fea­tures of AMD Instinct accelerators.

“AMD Instinct MI200 acce­le­ra­tors pro­vi­de cus­to­mers with cut­ting-edge AI and HPC per­for­mance and will power many of the world’s fas­test super­com­pu­ter sys­tems that push the boun­da­ries of sci­ence,” said Brad McCre­die, cor­po­ra­te vice pre­si­dent, Data Cen­ter and Acce­le­ra­ted Pro­ces­sing, AMD. “Our work with Micro­soft to enable lar­ge-sca­le AI trai­ning and infe­rence in the cloud not only high­lights the expan­si­ve tech­no­lo­gy col­la­bo­ra­ti­on bet­ween the two com­pa­nies, but the per­for­mance capa­bi­li­ties of AMD Instinct MI200 acce­le­ra­tors and how they will ulti­m­ate­ly help cus­to­mers advan­ce the gro­wing demands for AI workloads.” (…) Wei­ter­le­sen »

AMD EPYC™ Processors Expand Performance and Security Innovation Across Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines Portfolio

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—Micro­soft Azu­re intro­du­ces new Dasv5 and Easv5 VMs based on 3rd Gen AMD EPYC™ pro­ces­sors, and new con­fi­den­ti­al VMs based on AMD SEV-SNP technology —

SANTA CLARA, Calif. 11/04/2021 — Today, AMD announ­ced its con­tin­ued momen­tum and col­la­bo­ra­ti­on with Micro­soft Azu­re,  who is offe­ring the 3rd Gen AMD EPYC™ pro­ces­sor in the latest gene­ra­ti­on of Dasv5 and Easv5 Azu­re Vir­tu­al Machi­nes (VMs). Azu­re is also intro­du­cing new con­fi­den­ti­al VMs, DCasv5 and ECasv5, which use the latest advan­ced secu­ri­ty fea­tures available in 3rd Gen EPYC pro­ces­sors, inclu­ding Secu­re Encrypt­ed Vir­tua­liza­ti­on-Secu­re Nes­ted Paging (SEV-SNP).

The new Azu­re con­fi­den­ti­al VMs, DCasv5 and ECasv5, the first EPYC pro­ces­sor-based con­fi­den­ti­al VMs at Azu­re and the first con­fi­den­ti­al VMs to use SEV-SNP, will enable cus­to­mers to have the data in their secu­ri­ty focu­sed appli­ca­ti­ons encrypt­ed in use, in tran­sit and at rest. The updated Dasv5 VMs, opti­mi­zed for gene­ral pur­po­se workloads, and the Easv5 VMs, opti­mi­zed for memo­ry-based workloads, deli­ver bet­ter pri­ce-per­for­mance for most gene­ral pur­po­se and memo­ry inten­si­ve workloads com­pared to pri­or EPYC pro­ces­sor-based Micro­soft Azu­re VMs.
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Azure and AMD announce landmark in confidential computing evolution

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Chief Tech­no­lo­gy Offi­cer and Tech­ni­cal Fel­low, Micro­soft Azure

The pan­de­mic has acce­le­ra­ted digi­tal trans­for­ma­ti­on glo­bal­ly and the sca­la­bi­li­ty and secu­ri­ty advan­ta­ges offe­red by Micro­soft Azu­re have hel­ped many cus­to­mers move for­ward. One key tenet we have in Azu­re is that your data is your data. 

In Azu­re, we take your data secu­ri­ty serious­ly and have built num­e­rous con­trols around data at rest and data at flight. As a foun­ding mem­ber of the Con­fi­den­ti­al Com­pu­ting Con­sor­ti­um, we are also an inno­va­tor in con­fi­den­ti­al com­pu­ting which extends tho­se pro­tec­tions to data run­ning on the pro­ces­sor its­elf. For more than 3 years finan­cial ser­vices, govern­ments, health care pro­vi­ders, and even mes­sa­ging com­pa­nies have been using Azu­re con­fi­den­ti­al com­pu­ting to unlock new sce­na­ri­os like mul­ti-par­ty machi­ne lear­ning and move their more sen­si­ti­ve appli­ca­ti­ons to the cloud.

Today, I am announ­cing that we are fur­ther broa­de­ning the con­fi­den­ti­al com­pu­ting opti­ons available to Azu­re cus­to­mers through our tech­no­lo­gy part­ner­ship with AMD, spe­ci­fi­cal­ly by being the first major cloud pro­vi­der to offer con­fi­den­ti­al vir­tu­al machi­nes on the new AMD EPYC™ 7003 series pro­ces­sors. This new approach com­ple­ments exis­ting Azu­re con­fi­den­ti­al com­pu­ting solu­ti­ons such as con­fi­den­ti­al con­tai­ners for Azu­re Kuber­netes Ser­vice and opens the pos­si­bi­li­ty to crea­te new con­fi­den­ti­al appli­ca­ti­ons wit­hout requi­ring code modi­fi­ca­ti­ons which in turn sub­stan­ti­al­ly sim­pli­fies the pro­cess of crea­ting con­fi­den­ti­al applications.
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Prozessor-Pläne von Microsoft schicken Intel-Aktie auf Talfahrt

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Nach einem Bericht von Bloom­berg soll nach Ama­zon und Apple nun auch Micro­soft an eige­nen auf dem Arm-Design basie­ren­den Pro­zes­so­ren für Ser­ver bzw. für die eige­nen Cloud-Com­pu­ting-Platt­form Micro­soft Azu­re arbei­ten und zusätz­lich sogar den Ein­satz von ähn­li­chen Designs in den eige­nen Sur­face-Pro­duk­ten eva­lu­ie­ren. (…) Wei­ter­le­sen »

Announcing new AMD EPYC™-based Azure Virtual Machines

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Micro­soft is com­mit­ted to giving our cus­to­mers indus­­try-lea­­ding per­for­mance for all their workloads. After being the first glo­bal cloud pro­vi­der to announ­ce the deploy­ment of AMD EPYC™ based Azu­re Vir­tu­al Machi­nes in 2017, we’ve been working tog­e­ther to con­ti­nue brin­ging the latest inno­va­ti­on to enter­pri­ses. Today, we are announ­cing our second-gene­ra­­ti­on HB-series Azu­re Vir­tu­al Machi­nes, HBv2, which (…) Wei­ter­le­sen »

Microsoft setzt bei Lsv2-Serie auf AMDs EPYC

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Bereits im Sep­tem­ber des letz­ten Jah­res hat Micro­soft für den Cloud-Com­pu­ting Dienst Azu­re die HB-Serie für das High-Per­for­mance Com­pu­ting ange­kün­digt. Die­ser folgt jetzt die Lsv2-Serie, bei der eben­falls AMD EPYC 7551 Pro­zes­so­ren zum Ein­satz kom­men.  (…) Wei­ter­le­sen »

Microsoft mit AMD EPYC 7551 Serie für Azure Cloud-Computing (Update)

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Für sei­nen Cloud-Com­pu­ting Dienst Azu­re hat Micro­soft die HB-Serie für das High-Per­for­mance Com­pu­ting ange­kün­digt. Die­se setzt auf AMD EPYC 7551 Pro­zes­so­ren und wird auf Grund der her­aus­ra­gen­den Spei­cher­band­brei­te von 260 GB/s für Berech­nun­gen im Bereich Flu­id­dy­na­mik, der expli­zi­ten Fini­te-Ele­men­te-Metho­de und von Wet­ter­mo­del­len emp­foh­len.  (…) Wei­ter­le­sen »

Microsoft startet Azure Lv2-Cloudserie mit AMD Epyc

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Micro­soft hat kürz­lich bekannt gege­ben, dass mit der Serie Lv2 nun auch AMDs jüngs­ter Ser­ver-Pro­zes­sor Teil der Azu­re Cloud-Com­pu­ting-Platt­form ist. Micro­soft hat sich nicht für das Top­mo­dell AMD Epyc 7601 ent­schie­den, son­dern für den mini­mal lang­sa­mer (2,0 statt 2,2 GHz) getak­te­ten, dafür aber deut­lich güns­ti­ge­ren AMD Epyc 7551. Auch die­ser besitzt je CPU 32 Ker­ne mit SMP. (…) Wei­ter­le­sen »