AMD and Google Cloud have announced the first instance in the Tau line of virtual machines powered by 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors. It’s called T2D. Google Cloud estimates that T2D delivers a 56% improvement in absolute performance and more than 40% in performance per unit price, creating more compelling scalability for workloads. To clarify, […]
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Singapore’s fastest supercomputer powered by AMD EPYC processors
AMD announced that the new supercomputer of the National Supercomputing Center (NSCC) of Singapore will be powered by AMD EPYC 7003 series processors. The core of the system will be the HPE Cray EX supercomputer, which uses a combination of EPYC 7763 and EPYC 75F3 processors. It is planned to fully commission the supercomputer by […]
AMD Confirms Release Date for Epyc Zen3 Processors (Milan)
AMD has confirmed that the third generation of AMD’s Epyc processors will be officially unveiled on March 15th. On this day, the manufacturer will present 19 models with 8 to 64 cores. All of them will be based on the Zen3 architecture. On the day of the announcement, there will be a presentation by Lisa […]
AMD Zen 4 microarchitecture will support AVX-512 commands
The next generation AMD processor microarchitecture known as Zen 4, which will underpin the 4th Gen AMD EPYC (Genoa) server processors, will include support for 512-bit AVX instruction sets. This is indicated by a slide, according to the source, borrowed from the official presentation. If you believe the illustration, Genoa processors work in dual-processor configurations, […]