Sometimes, when certain large companies have specific needs, AMD or Intel can offer tailor-made hardware solutions. That’s what happened with the Reds when they offered their Epyc models with HBM3 memory!
Custom Epyc CPUs in Microsoft Azure servers!
With these processors, AMD offers solutions equipped with a large number of cores. These are benchmark CPUs, with a total of 88 cores based on the Zen 4 architecture, and capable of turbocharging up to 4 GHz.
What’s more, Microsoft’s HBv5 servers benefit from disabled hyperthreading . This can have the effect of reducing core latency. HBM3 memory has also been integrated into the processors, enabling phenomenal memory bandwidth – we’re talking 6.9 TB/s through 400 to 450 GB of memory. Another interesting fact is that each core can be allocated a maximum of 9 GB of memory. This value is user-configurable.
For the rest, each server benefits from a network connection provided by an NVIDIA Quantum-2 800 Gb/s network chip. As for storage, 14TB of SSDs are used, with read speeds of 50GB/s and write speeds of 30GB. Finally, each machine integrates a total of four processors, or 352 cores per machine.
Compared with previous-generation servers, the generational gap is significant. Microsoft is announcing performance figures of x35 compared with servers deployed 4 to 5 years ago, and x8 compared with competing solutions.
