Two years ago, AMD released a desire to recapture the data center advantage EPYC (Xiao Long) processor (For details, see "shocked the industry's EPYC what kind?" Article), its high performance makes the industry look askance , so that competitors feel uneasy, one stroke laid AMD position in the data center market.
August 7 after two years in the San Francisco AMD Horizon 2019, AMD president and CEO Dr. Lisa Su has announced the launch of the second generation EPYC (Xiao Long) processor, calculated as the number of enterprise-class, cloud and high-performance (HPC) workloads bring leading performance. The second generation AMD EPYC equipped with up to 64 processors using cutting-edge manufacturing processes 7nm "Zen 2" core, brings a record of performance, in a variety of workloads can be the most expensive of ownership (TCO) lower 50%, continue to consolidate AMD's position in the data center market, and standard data center has increased to a new level.
To redefine the new standard data center
The second generation AMD EPYC processor specifically for the modern data center workloads designed to provide customers with an ideal combination of features, not only to unlock the performance, but also redefined virtualization, cloud computing, high performance computing and enterprise applications economy. For enterprise data centers, second-generation processor brings AMD EPYC than similar products up to 83% of applications to enhance the performance of Java programs, up to 43% of the SAP SD 2 Tier performance, and set a world record performance of real-time analysis of Hadoop. For modern cloud computing and virtual environment, the second generation AMD EPYC processors offer world record performance virtual redefine the economics of the data center. For high-performance computing, AMD EPYC second-generation processor provides a perfect combination of unmatched, including: record floating point performance of similar products in the highest DRAM memory and I / O bandwidth to achieve superior HPC loads; up 2 times the calculated hydrodynamic performance, and structural analysis of the performance by up to 72%.
Achieve these dramatic performance record, of course, inextricably linked with the second generation EPYC architectural design. As shown below, EPYC over the first generation, second generation EPYC processor provides up to 64 "Zen 2" core, IPC server workload to enhance the performance of each core in each of the up to 23% SoC, L3 cache Up to 4-fold increase. Innovative next-generation AMD Infinity architecture, through centralized 14nm I / O Die, directly connected CCD 7nm, which dramatically improves the performance of NUMA, breaking the boundaries of x86 performance and computing power, so that customers can get the most similar products the I / O and memory bandwidth interfaces including PCIe 4.0, the latest release of the performance characteristics of the new server. In addition, AMD has always been proud in terms of safety ho, the second generation EPYC processor also provides a "hard core" chip-level embedded security subsystem, memory, and security encryption security encryption and advanced security features such as virtualization, further enhance the security of EPYC.
Rapidly growing partner ecosystem
Two years ago, when AMD announced the return to the enterprise market, launched the first generation EPYC (Xiao Long) processors, when the industry was full of praise for the performance EPYC general, but also widespread concern and see, already almost compete opponents monopoly ecosystem level, AMD will be how to regain lost ground?
And on this AMD Horizon, AMD by a string of dazzling list of partners and relevant data, answer questions and concerns about the industry.
Google, Twitter, Microsoft, HPE, Lenovo, Dell EMC, VMware and other partners AMD Horizon site of their own experiences, has made the audience excited, while standing in the hall in front of more than 60 Logo Wall partners and in exhibition many brands based on the second generation AMD processor-based servers EPYC new products, is further explained in the past two years, AMD has made great achievements in ecological partners.
Google vice president of engineering Bart Sano said: "With the second generation AMD EPYC processor, we can continue to do what we do best in the data center, it is the innovative computing processor provides scalable, memory, and I /. O performance, can help us to further promote innovation and infrastructure, while giving Google Cloud customers according to their workload
Flexibility in choosing the best virtual machines. "
Twitter Engineering Senior Director Jennifer Fraser expressed "Twitter has been working to improve efficiency through innovative means to reduce the impact of data centers on the environment. The second generation AMD EPYC processor provides us with the best balance of performance and energy consumption, thereby not only allow us to fully fulfill this commitment, but also provide performance guarantees for high traffic on our platform. EPYC 7702 with AMD's processors, we can use less energy use more CPU cores within a smaller space expand our computing cluster, the Twitter of TCO reduced by 25%. "
From "Roma" to "Genoa" no limit to innovation
Late last year, AMD said it has delivered to the industry all major OEM partners and customers the 7nm code-named "Rome" processor product samples, also promised, will be officially released code 7nm process technology in the global market in 2019 is "Rome" processor. And the second generation AMD processor EPYC "Rome" of the official launch, AMD also marks the last year has been living up to its promise.
However, AMD did not meet the current results, on this AMD Horizon, AMD also announced a roadmap for data center processor, Zen 3 architecture "Milan" processor architecture and Zen 4 "Genoa" processor impressively in column, and "Milan" processor design has been completed, "Genoa" processor also design.
All this shows that, AMD processors innovation in the data center will never be a "one-shot deal", but will continue to continue to go on indefinitely, and competition data center processor market will be strong with AMD intervention into the increasingly intense competition stage!
