AMD Zen 2 EPYC “Rome” Launch Event Live Blog

AMD invited TechPowerUp to their launch occasion and editor’s day protection of Zen 2 EPYC processors based mostly on the 7 nm course of. The occasion was a day-long affair which included product demos and excursions, and capped off with an official launch presentation which we’re capable of share with you reside because the occasion goes on. Zen 2 with the Ryzen 3000-series processors ushered in loads of pleasure, and for good purpose too as our personal opinions present, however questions remained on how the platform would scale to the opposite finish of the market. We already knew, for instance, that AMD secured many contracts based mostly on their first-generation EPYC processors, and little question the IPC improve and anticipated elevated core depend would trigger comparable, if not increased, curiosity right here. We additionally count on to know shortly in regards to the numerous SKUs and pricing concerned, and in addition if AMD desires to shed extra gentle on the way forward for the Threadripper processor household. Read under, and proceed previous the break, for our stay protection.

21:00 UTC: Lisa Su is on the stage on the Palace of Fine Arts occasions venue in San Francisco to current AMD’s newest developments on EPYC for datacenters, utilizing the Zen 2 microarchitecture.

21:10 UTC: AMD focuses not simply on delivering a single chip, however it’s objective is to ship a whole answer for the enterprise.21:12 UTC: AMD Naples was launched two years in the past and it served principally to introduce the know-how and to get acquainted with business and ecosystem companions.

21:17 UTC: AMD is betting large on Zen 2- its greatest wager but within the server house.

21:20 UTC: According to AMD, they’ve already damaged 80 world data with EPYC on Zen 2, and can exhibit a few of them on this presentation.

21:21 UTC: AMD has extra cores than ever, probably the most IO functionality ever.

21:26 UTC: AMD is now evaluating the EPYC 7742, a 64-core SKU, in opposition to the Intel Xeon Platinum 8280L (28-cores): a 97% increased efficiency relative to Intel with regards to the height SPECrate 2017 floating level check. It additionally has 4x the floating efficiency relative to the EPYC 1st technology, presumably the EPYC 7551P (32-cores).

21:30 UTC: It is vital for AMD to not solely give attention to uncooked efficiency, however to additionally drive up efficiency per greenback and enhance OpEx.

21:32 UTC: AMD acknowledges it could possibly’t do that alone, and has teamed up with OEM companions who use AMD EPYC processors to show this into full ready-to-go servers.

21:35 UTC: Mark Potter from HPE (Hewlett Packard Enterprise, CTO) is now on stage.

21:36 UTC: HPE has three EPYC-based servers (ProLiant DL325, ProLiant DL385, and Apollo 35) obtainable beginning at present, and may have 12 completely different server fashions inside the subsequent 12 months.

21:37 UTC: HPE’s new servers have claimed 37 world data. No particulars on what these are but, however Mark Potter briefly says these are all within the workload areas that matter on this market, together with enterprise virtualization, large knowledge analytics, server-side JAVA, and SAP gross sales/distribution.

21:40 UTC: Mark is now speaking about safety, and the way HPE has approached it utilizing a zero-trust mannequin. This is, after all, taking a jab at Intel’s current safety points, the most recent of which was simply revealed within the final days.

21:41 UTC: HPE is assured that it could possibly safe, handle and optimize the system of tomorrow.

21:42 UTC: The firm analyzed 1.25 billion knowledge factors from numerous prospects and skilled an AI with the outcomes to foretell potential system failures and mitigate their results.

21:44 UTC: HPE is delivering the programs the way in which the purchasers need it in that they’re free to purchase them the standard manner, or prospects can pay-per-use for his or her servers with out the substantial up-front investments.

21:46 UTC: Next up on stage is Jennifer Fraser of Twitter (Director, Data Center Engineering), speaking about how superior EPYC is in a pattern little question to observe.

21:47 UTC: EPYC lets Twitter put 40% extra cores into every server rack. This helps with a 25% discount within the complete value of possession, which can be applied in Twitter…