AMD's Fortunes Are Improving

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https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-ep...ogle-cloud

Google Cloud users now have new virtual machines to experiment with. The company today announced that its N2D VMs, which are built upon second-gen AMD Epyc processors, are now available as a public beta in certain regions.
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The message is clear: AMD isn't just hoping to lure consumers away from Intel. It's going for data center customers, too, and powering the latest VMs from Google Cloud is a pretty damn good way to demonstrate how competitive its chips are.

Google Cloud said the N2D VMs are now available to customers in the us-central1, asia-southeast1 and europe-west4 regions as a public beta. The company said there are "more regions on the way!" but didn't offer additional details about its plans.

https://www.techpowerup.com/263990/amd-g...epyc-cores

AMD has scored yet another design win for usage of its high-performance EPYC processors in the Cray Shasta supercomputer. The Cray Shasta will be deployed in the US Navy's Department of Defense Supercomputing Resource Center (DSRC) as part of the High Performance Computing Modernization Program. The peak theoretical computing capability of 12.8 PetaFLOPS, or 12.8 quadrillion floating point operations per second supercomputer will be built with 290,304 AMD EPYC (Rome) processor cores and 112 NVIDIA Volta V100 General-Purpose Graphics Processing Units (GPGPUs). The system will also feature 590 total terabytes (TB) of memory and 14 petabytes (PB) of usable storage, including 1 PB of NVMe-based solid state storage. Cray's Slingshot network will make sure all those components talk to each other at a rate of 200 Gigabits per second.