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Today, AMD is giving us a detailed picture of how its Zen-based EPYC processor lineup will flesh-out. Along with some of its key architectural advantages, it's easy to see now that Zen was built from the ground-up with data center-class scalability in mind, across its entire architecture. We've got plenty of information to disclose on the pages ahead, but also have some video of some EPYC-based servers in action that demonstrate the performance of the platform.



Today marks the launch of AMD 's EPYC family of processors for data center servers. Based on the company's Zen microarchitecture, it has become abundantly clear that AMD was targeting the lucrative data center market first and foremost with its new CPU architecture and the highly scalable Naples platform that leverages it. Of course Zen scales well for client/consumer desktop applications, as we've seen with AMD's successful Ryzen processor launch . However, the data center is near and dear to the AMD's heart, due to significantly higher chip pricing and better profit margins; not to mention the explosion of the cloud, from software as a service-built platforms like Amazon AWS , to AI, and big data analytics.Today, AMD is giving us a detailed picture of how its Zen-based EPYC processor lineup will flesh-out. Along with some of its key architectural advantages, it's easy to see now that Zen was built from the ground-up with data center-class scalability in mind, across its entire architecture. We've got plenty of information to disclose on the pages ahead, but also have some video of some EPYC-based servers in action that demonstrate the performance of the platform.

Power Optimized And Secure







AMD EPYC 7000 Series Server With All DIMM Sockets Populated



Above is a fully configured 2P AMD EPYC server, with all of its 8 memory DIMM sockets and channels filled - 64 physical cores, 128 threads, up to 2 terabytes of memory and 128 PCI Express lanes of direct CPU root access. It's a beast to be sure, but before we get to far head of ourselves, let's take a look at the entire current AMD EPYC processor family...



AMD has three tenants in mind with respect to EPYC -based server platforms, "Power, Optimize and Secure." In other words, balanced top-end performance with abundant core resources, memory bandwidth and I/O connectivity, flexible configurability of the platform for targeted workloads and securing the platform at the silicon-level to minimize threat vectors wherever possible. Those are AMD's "principles" for EPYC, and it does look like EPYC has the building blocks to execute toward those goals as well.Above is a fully configured 2P AMD EPYC server, with all of its 8 memory DIMM sockets and channels filled - 64 physical cores, 128 threads, up to 2 terabytes of memory and 128 PCI Express lanes of direct CPU root access. It's a beast to be sure, but before we get to far head of ourselves, let's take a look at the entire current AMD EPYC processor family...





Speaking of which, here's what the current family looks like... AMD's EPYC 7000 series of server processors have a common set of features and attributes across the line-up, namely 8-channel DDR4 memory per CPU socket and up to 2TB of memory total, 128 available PCI Express lanes for specialized co-processor expansion (GPUs, storage HBAs etc.), specialized, integrated secondary processor cores for security functions and further socket expansion beyond just this family of EPYC CPUs.Speaking of which, here's what the current family looks like...