What a year for the AMD and HPE teams! Only six months ago, I blogged about the AMD EPYC™ team heading to HPE Discover in Las Vegas and now we’re finishing up with HPE Discover in Madrid. It’s been a fantastic year for both companies with much more to come.
Before Las Vegas, we announced the HPE ProLiant DL325 Gen10 no compromise, single-socket server. This powerhouse platform from HPE is designed to tackle dense virtualization and software-defined storage workloads. With up to 32 cores, two terabytes of memory and 40 terabytes of NVMe storage in a 1U chassis, the DL325 is a fantastic machine for highly virtualized, on-premise workloads. The HPE ProLiant DL325 Gen10 delivers up to 27 percent lower cost per virtual machine (VM) than the leading dual-processor competitor for virtualization for those workloads[1].
Beyond the enterprise, we’ve seen some great wins for AMD and HPE in the high performance computing space, where AMD EPYC processors provide the necessary memory bandwidth and I/O lanes for memory intense workloads. At ISC in June 2018, HPE launched the new Apollo 35, a high density AMD EPYC™ compute solution that is ideal for memory bandwidth or capacity bound HPC workloads, such as computational fluid dynamics, weather simulation, and oil and gas exploration.
At SC18 in Dallas, HPE and AMD announced support for a new supercomputer from the High Performance Computing Center in Stuttgart, Germany. It will be the world’s fastest supercomputer for industrial production, powering computational engineering and research across science and industrial fields to advance applications in energy, climate, mobility, and health. Called Hawk, the supercomputer will be based on HPE’s next-generation high-performance computing platform running a next generation AMD EPYC™ processor code named “Rome.”
It's been a fantastic year for AMD and HPE. If you’re at HPE Discover Madrid, this is where you can find myself and the team on the show floor:
- Stop by our booth, #230, to meet AMD experts and to see demos of AMD EPYC processors and HPE servers for virtualization, software-defined storage and more.
Tuesday, November 27 from 9:00 – 9:30 AM CET: HPE Live Interview with myself and Tom Lattin, VP, HPE ProLiant and Cloudline Systems.
- Tuesday, November 27 from 10:00 – 10:30 AM CET at Theater 6: Olivier Suinat, CVP Sales, AMD Datacenter Solutions Group, will be on a panel discussing Cloud 28+ and AMD’s participation in it.
- Wednesday, November 28 from 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CET at N116, NCC Level 1: Tom Lattin, VP, HPE ProLiant and Cloudline Systems, will join me in a breakout session where we will talk about how HPE servers with AMD EPYC processors can redefine virtualization, software-defined storage and high-performance computing.
- Wednesday, November 28 from 2:00 – 3:00 PM CET at N118, NCC Level 1: Isidro Gonzalez, senior GPU market development manager, AMD, will discuss AMD GPUs in an HPE GPU-enabled data center.
[1] Based on a comparison of the SPECvirt_sc2013 results of the ThinkSystem SR650 with 2 Intel Xeon Platinum 8164 processors versus the HPE ProLiant DL325 Gen10 with 1 AMD EPYC 7551P. SPEC and the benchmark name SPECvirt_2013 are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC). The stated results are published as of 06-05-18; see spec.org. Lenovo pricing from Lenovo site as of 05-14-18. HPE pricing is internal as of 06-05-18. Based on HPE testing, not independently verified by AMD.
The information contained herein is for informational purposes only and is subject to change without notice. Timelines, roadmaps, and/or product release dates shown in these slides are plans only and subject to change. “Rome is a code name for AMD architecture, and is not a product name. GD-122
Scott Aylor is the CVP & GM of the AMD Datacenter Solutions Group. His postings are his own opinions and may not represent AMD’s positions, strategies or opinions. Links to third party sites are provided for convenience and unless explicitly stated, AMD is not responsible for the contents of such linked sites and no endorsement is implied. GD-5
