#AMD EPYC

AMD has announced that it has expanded its EPYC processor-based offerings with the availability of the new Amazon EC2 Hpc6a instances, which are purpose built for high performance computing (HPC) workloads in the clouds. “We’re excited to continue our collaboration with AMD and add another crucial AMD EPYC instance to the Amazon EC2 portfolio.” The instances powered by 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors are available today in the US, with availability in other regions coming soon. AMD has recently unveiled the latest EPYC 7003 series processors, which set a new standard with new Zen 3 cores and modern security features. The AMD EPYC 7003 Series processors boast up to 64 "Zen 3" cores per processor and up to 32MB of L3 cache per core while offering the PCIe 4 connectivity and class-leading memory bandwidth that defined the EPYC 7002 series CPUs. These include modern security features through AMD Infinity Guard with support to a new feature called Secure Encrypted Virtualization-Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP). The SEV-SNP increases the existing SEV features on EPYC processors, adding strong memory integrity protection capabilities to prevent malicious hypervisor-based attacks. According to AMD, the new EPYC 7003 series processors help HPC, cloud, and enterprise customers do faster by delivering the best performance of any server CPU with up to 19% more instructions per clock. Read more in our articles including "AMD expands EPYC processor-based offerings" and "AMD intros 3rd Gen EPYC 7003 series CPUs".