AMD announced that IBM Cloud will adopt processors in its "bare metal" server infrastructure EPYC second generation "Rome". Specifically, IBM will adopt the processor EPYC 7642 to accelerate modern workloads such as data analysis, artificial intelligence, virtualized and containerized loads, as well as automation of electronic design.
EPYC 7642 is an architecture based processor 7 nanometer Zen 2, equipped with 48 cores and 96 threads which operate at 2.3 GHz (base) and can go up to 3.3 GHz (boost). The CPU has 8 DDR4-3200 memory channels, 256 MB L3 cache, 128 PCI Express 4.0 lines and 225 watts TDP.
"We are excited to introduce new IBM Cloud offerings based on second generation EPYC AMD CPUs," said Satinder Sethi, general manager of IBM Cloud Infrastructure Services. "With these new processors, we can offer IBM Cloud customers more choice and flexibility to select the most suitable platform to meet the needs of the most demanding workloads. We look forward to continuing to offer innovations and value to our customers in future".
IBM Cloud will adopt dual-socket platforms, thus ensuring 96 cores and 192 threads per server. Bare metal servers will be integrated into IBM datacenters in the United States, Europe and Asia Pacific regions. Recall that in recent days AMD and Microsoft have strengthened their partnership by making available Microsoft Azure NVv4 Virtual Machines with AMD EPYC GPU AMD Radeon Instinct CPU in new regions, including Western Europe.
