2nd Gen AMD EPYC™ Processors and AMD Radeon Instinct™ MI25 GPUs Extend Microsoft Azure High Performance Cloud Offerings
March 25 2020 - 09:00AM
Today, AMD announced that the 2nd Gen AMD EPYC™ processors and AMD
Radeon Instinct™ MI25 GPUs are extending performance advantages
through Microsoft Azure NVv4 virtual machines (VMs). These VMs,
which are now generally available to customers in South Central
U.S. and Europe West Azure regions, provide a virtual desktop
experience, enabling customers to power remote visualization
services and virtual desktops in the cloud to support entry-level
workers, as well as graphics-intensive visualization workloads like
CAD and simulations.
The Azure NVv4 VMs are also the first 2nd Gen AMD EPYC- and AMD
Radeon Instinct-powered VMs from any cloud provider, and the first
Azure virtual desktop supported by AMD processors.
This announcement builds momentum for AMD-powered Azure VMs
including the general availability of the Dav4-series and
Eav4-series VM, made for general purpose and memory intensive
workloads, and the general availability of the HBv2-Series VMs for
high-performance computing workloads.
“AMD processors give cloud providers and end customers access to
some of the best performance, scalability and affordability for a
variety of workloads,” said Forrest Norrod, Senior Vice President
and General Manager, Data Center and Embedded Solutions Group, AMD.
“Working together with Microsoft Azure, one of our foundational AMD
EPYC partners, we are excited to extend our performance advantages
to new virtualization workloads with the first ever 2nd Gen AMD
EPYC- and AMD Radeon Instinct MI25-powered VMs from any cloud
provider. The unique combination of AMD CPUs and GPUs provide a
differentiated solution for our cloud customers and bring new
capabilities to end users, whether they are accessing a virtual
desktop in the cloud or running complex and heavy simulations.”
“AMD and Microsoft Azure share a history of bringing new
capabilities and levels of performance with VMs that support a
variety of customer workloads like high-performance computing to
memory optimized and to general purpose, and now we are giving
customers a scalable experience for desktop virtualization
workloads,” said Girish Bablani, corporate vice president of
Azure Compute at Microsoft. “With the NVv4 series VMs, Azure
becomes the first cloud provider to offer a VM powered by an AMD
EPYC CPU and AMD Radeon Instinct GPU, and we look forward to
building even more success in cloud computing with AMD.”
Driving High Performance Azure VMs with AMD
As the first global cloud provider to support 1st and 2nd Gen
AMD EPYC processors, Azure is enabling VMs that provide customers
with leading experiences for a variety of cloud workloads,
including general purpose, memory-optimized, high performance
computing and even virtual desktop environments.
AMD powered Azure VMs include:
- General Purpose Workload Dav4 & Dasv4VM Series: The Dav4
and Dasv4 Azure VMs are made for a variety of general-purpose
applications. Featuring the AMD EPYC™ 7452 processor, the VMs offer
up to 96 vCPUs, 384 GBs of RAM, and 2,400 GBs of SSD-based
temporary storage and support for Azure Premium SSDs. The Dav4 and
Das v4 VMs offer great performance at competitive price points and
can run enterprise-grade applications, relational databases and
application servers.
- Memory Optimized Workload Eav4 & Easv4 VM Series: The Eav4
and Easv4 Azure VMs are made for memory-intensive workloads. These
new VMs were the first in the cloud to feature the AMD
EPYC™ 7452 processor. The VMs offer up to 96 vCPUs, 672 GBs of
RAM, and 2,400 GBs of SSD-based temporary storage. The Eav4 and
Easv4 VMs offer great performance for large in-memory business
critical workloads at competitive price points. The Eas-series VMs
support Azure Premium SSDs.
- HBv2 VM: The HBv2 VMs are purpose made for high-performance
computing workloads like CFD, explicit finite element analysis,
seismic processing, reservoir modeling, rendering and more.
Featuring the 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processor and 200 gigabit/sec HDR
InfiniBand, Azure recently announced that in a series of HPC
benchmarks, HBv2 VMs eclipsed 80,000 cores for tightly-coupled
simulation, providing on-premise supercomputing levels of
performance, in the cloud.
- NVv4 VM: Powered by 2nd Gen AMD EPYC™ CPUs and AMD Radeon
Instinct™ MI25 GPUs, NVv4 delivers a modern desktop and
workstation experience in the cloud. Single Root I/O Virtualization
(SR-IOV) based GPU partitioning offers four resource-balanced
configuration options, from 1/8th to a full GPU, to deliver a
flexible, security-focused, GPU-enabled virtual desktop experience.
Customers can enjoy greater choice by matching resources more
closely to their intended workloads making GPU-accelerated virtual
desktops much more affordable than ever before,
- LSv2: The LSv2-series is well suited for big data applications,
SQL and NoSQL databases, data warehousing, and large transactional
databases. The LSv2 VMs run on the AMD EPYC 7551 processor with an
all core boost of 2.55GHz.
With the wide availability of 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors, AMD
is raising the bar for partner milestones in performance,
price/performance and scalability. The AMD EPYC and Radeon
Instinct-powered Azure VMs are all generally available now. To
learn more, visit the Azure Virtual Machines webpage here.
Supporting Resources
- Learn more about the NVv4 VM on the AMD EPYC Blog and the
Microsoft Azure Blog
- Learn more about the AMD and Azure VMs
- Learn more about the AMD 2nd Gen EPYC™ Processor
- Become a fan of AMD on Facebook
- Follow AMD on Twitter
About AMDFor more than 50 years AMD has driven
innovation in high-performance computing, graphics and
visualization technologies ― the building blocks for gaming,
immersive platforms and the datacenter. Hundreds of millions of
consumers, leading Fortune 500 businesses and cutting-edge
scientific research facilities around the world rely on AMD
technology daily to improve how they live, work and play. AMD
employees around the world are focused on building great products
that push the boundaries of what is possible. For more information
about how AMD is enabling today and inspiring tomorrow, visit the
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AMD Communications
(512) 602-8950
aaron.grabein@amd.com
Laura Graves
AMD Investor Relations
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laura.graves@amd.com
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