Dell Technologies, Lenovo, and SuperMicro were just a handful of the vendors launching new systems powered by AMD’s revamped EPYC data center processors this week.
The new EPYC 3 features up to 64 cores based on AMD’s new Zen 3 microarchitecture, which the company claims offers 19% higher instructions per clock over the previous generation, and more than twice the performance of Intel’s highest-end Xeon Scalable processors.
“We designed the EPYC 7003-series processors to give our customers exactly what they said they needed: performance across all workloads and the ability to drive more time to value, right out of the box,” said Ram Peddibhotla, VP of EPYC product management at AMD.
Dell Technologies among the vendors to launch new AMD-based systems. Today, Dell announced 17 new servers available in either Intel or AMD flavors. However, the announcement comes months before Intel is slated to launch its 10-nanometer IceLake-series Xeon Scalable processors. While Dell’s AMD-based systems are available this week, the company said the updated Intel systems wouldn’t launch until sometime in May.
According to Ravi Pendekanti, SVP of server and networking portfolio management at Dell Technologies, the updated servers will not only feature the latest CPUs from Intel and AMD but are tailored to specific workloads.
“We are committed to ensuring that we provide our customers the choice to pick the right platform for the workload that they need,” he said, adding that, for some applications, an AMD or Intel system may offer better performance.
To this end, Pendekanti highlighted Dell’s AMD-based PowerEdge R6515 and the Intel-based R750 servers, each of which, he said, has its advantages in different use cases.
“Here we are able to show that we can deliver up to 43% greater performance in solving some massively-parallel linear equations,” he said of the Xeon-based system. And on the EPYC-based R6515, “we can actually go ahead and accelerate data processing up to 60% in big data Hadoop databases.”
Alongside the spate of updated servers, Dell also introduced a pair of GPU-accelerated systems designed to support artificial intelligence (AI) and data analytics workloads. These systems are its most powerful AI-enabled servers to date, the company claimed.
The four rack-unit PowerEdge XE8545 can be configured with two 64-core AMD EPYC 3 processors and four Nvidia A100 GPUs. Meanwhile, the two rack-unit PowerEdge R750xa pairs twin Xeon Scalable processors with up to four double-wide GPUs or six single-width GPUs.
Finally, on the telecommunications and edge front, Dell launched two ruggedized servers, the PowerEdge XR11 and XR12, which feature Intel CPUs, a hardened chassis, and support for multiple accelerators.
Lenovo Doubles Down on EPYC
Not to be left out, Lenovo’s Data Center Group launched eight new servers this week, all based on AMD’s EPYC 3 processors, and optimized for cloud computing workloads, like virtual desktop infrastructure, database, analytics, and artificial intelligence.
The updates included two new twin socket ThinkSystem servers, the SR645 and SR665, which will be the first to get the EPYC 3 treatment when they launch later this month. Meanwhile, the company’s single-socket SR635 and SR665 servers will launch in June.
The vendor claims the systems can deliver between 15% and 25% higher performance than previous generation ThinkSystem servers depending on the workload.
Lenovo’s ThinkAgile hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) line up also received a refresh this week, with four new systems designed for high-performance compute (HPC) workloads in private and hybrid-cloud environments.
The ThinkAgile VX5575 is a two rack-unit server designed for high capacity storage applications like email management, while the VX7575 and the VX7576 are designed for HPC workloads like analytics and databases.
For customers requiring GPU acceleration for compute-heavy workloads, Lenovo also launched the ThinkAgile VX3575-G server, which can be equipped with up to eight Nvidia graphics processors.
Lenovo’s AMD EPYC 3-based ThinkAgile VX server portfolio will be available in the second half of 2021.
SuperMicro, Gigabyte, Asus Get an EPYC Refresh
Alongside new servers from Dell and Lenovo, SuperMicro, Gigabyte, and Asus all gave their server line ups an EPYC 3 refresh this week.
Asus announced four new dual-and single-socket servers for AMD’s new chips that will be available in multiple chassis ranging from one to four rack units. The company said it would also be rolling out support for the new chips to existing systems via a BIOS update.
Likewise, SuperMicro and Gigabyte are also taking advantage of EPYC 3’s backward compatibility to upgrade. Monday, Gigabyte claimed more than 40 of its servers and motherboards had been validated for use with EPYC 3. Meanwhile, SuperMicro announced it had updated its massive A+ Server portfolio — which spans single socket, dual socket, and multi-node servers, blade servers, and GPU accelerated systems — to support the new chips.
According to SuperMicro, the upgrade from second to third-generation EPYC is already delivering substantial performance improvements. The company claimed its EPYC 3-based SuperBlade servers, which offer the company’s highest core/node densities, were achieving 36% higher performance over the previous generation CPUs.
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