Supermicro introduces AMD EPYC 7003 series processors with 36% performance improvements

     Super Micro Computer, a global leader in enterprise computing, storage, networking solutions and green computing technologies, today announced the industry's most complete server product line supporting AMD EPYC 7003 series processors. Supermicro's SuperBlade has achieved back-to-back world-record benchmark scores in the critical-jOPS and max-jOPS tests at SPECjbb 2015-Distributed. SuperBlade has increased performance by as much as 36% from AMD EPYC CPU1 Generation 2 to Generation 3, an impressive increase that can meet the demands of highly efficient enterprise workloads.

     The Supermicro A+ family of products includes servers that combine single - and dual-path system solutions designed to reduce the time required to get results and improve the efficiency of business decisions. For example, the recently announced new 2U 2-node multi-GPU server is the ideal platform for video streaming, high-class cloud gaming, and countless social networking applications. It offers market-leading system flexibility, cost savings and uninterrupted performance. Supermicro's innovative server design enables industry-leading performance while reducing the power required, laying the foundation for application-optimized servers that enable modern businesses to reduce costs and improve the user experience.

     Charles Liang, CEO and President of Supermicro, said, "Supermicro has been an industry leader in designing and manufacturing large-scale application optimization server portfolios that meet customer needs. Our building block architecture allows us to deliver a versatile system portfolio, whether it's a 2U 2-node GPU system with PCIe 4.0 for cloud gaming, or a 2U CloudDC single-processor high-core system for storage applications. All can be used to the best advantage of third-generation AMD EPYC processors to meet specific workloads. These systems reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) and total environmental cost (TCE), which is an important metric because we all have a responsibility to minimize the environmental impact of our data centers."

     The new third-generation AMD EPYC 7003 series processors feature a "Zen3" core design with 19 percent more instructions per cycle than the previous generation and can contain up to 64 cores per slot, demonstrating superior performance in many common benchmarks and real-world workloads. Supermicro's new systems include a range of computing and storage systems designed for the most demanding applications in AI, high performance computing (HPC), enterprise and cloud deployments.

     Ram Peddibhotla, corporate vice president of EPYC Product Management at AMD, said: "We designed the EPYC 7003 series to give our customers everything they need, performance for all workloads, and more time to deliver value out of the box. With its leading architecture, performance and modern security features, EPYC 7003 series processors will be a great choice for customers and continue to raise the bar in modern data centers."

     The new A+ product family powered by AMD EPYC 7003 series processors helps leading organizations reduce the time it takes to deliver solutions for a wide range of applications, incorporate enhanced security features, and allow all workloads to run in the cloud, on-premise, or private cloud. Supermicro has certified many solutions and reference architectures that make it easy for organizations to deploy and gain insights from their data faster than ever before.

     These solutions include: Artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML)/Deep learning (DL) training inference workload optimization, certified servers, hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI)/software-defined infrastructure (SDI), such as VMWare vSAN, RedHat CEPH, and Weka.IO software-defined storage. Data management such as Oracle 19c, Apache Hadoop, and Cassandra, as well as optimization of high-performance computing applications such as Ansys Fluent, OpenFOAM, and WRF, all deliver better performance.