Microsoft azure is the first to offer vms with epyc rome
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Microsoft Azure is the first public cloud service to offer its customers instances, or virtual machines (VMs), using AMD's latest EPYC Rome processors, Microsoft announced at its Ignite 2019 conference this week.
Microsoft Azure is the first to offer virtual machines with EPYC Rome
Microsoft was also one of the first to adopt AMD's first generation of EPYC server processors in 2017, which it used for storage workloads, so this is no surprise and marks the company's good business relationship. Redmond with AMD in recent years.
AMD announced its 7nm EPYC Rome server CPUs in August. Processors have up to 64 cores and 128 threads. Microsoft's fourth generation D and E series VMs run on the latest 32-core EPYC 7452 server processors and are now generally available to Azure customers.
Azure D-series fourth generation instances (Da_v4 and Das_v4) target enterprise-grade applications, relational databases, in-memory caching, and analytics. These are the fastest Microsoft VMs in their class and are equipped with EPYC 7452 processors that support up to 96 vCPUs, 384 GB of DDR4 RAM, and 2.4 TB of SSD-based temporary storage for each VM.
Fourth generation E-series VMs (Ea_v4 and Eas_v4) target enterprise-critical workloads that require large amounts of memory. These virtual machines also run on EPYC 7452 CPUs, supporting up to 96 vCPUs, 674GB of DDR4 RAM, and 2.4TB of SSD-based temporary storage for each VM. Microsoft and AMD have claimed that these Azure E-series instances offer 22% better performance per dollar compared to competitive offerings.
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Azure also introduced the NVv4 instance series for virtual desktops equipped with EPYC 7742 64-core CPUs and Radeon Instinct MI25 GPUs. The new NVv4 instances, which target display applications on virtual desktops, also use Vega MI25 GPUs. In a blog post, AMD said this is "the first Microsoft Azure virtual machine to take advantage of SR-IOV (Single-root input / output virtualization) technologies and introduce partitioning into the GPU through four new options." This means that a single GPU can support up to eight VMs.
Azure also pre-released its HBv2 instance running on an EPYC 7742. The HBv2 instance supports 200 Gbps HDR InfiniBand and can scale up to 80, 000 cores. According to AMD, it will be available later this year in the Central South regions of the United States and Western Europe.
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