Introducing AMD
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AMD Professional Products
Founded in 1969, AMD has grown into the market leader in graphics cards, with its innovative professional CPUs and GPUs being honed for workflows such as advanced visualisation. Scan works closely with AMD to offer the complete range of professional
solutions as part of our award-winning 3XS Systems workstations and server models.
Want to learn more about which AMD product is right for you? Take a look at the AMD professional product range to discover everything you need to know to make the perfect purchasing decision to drive digital transformation and innovation
within your organisation.
What is an AMD EPYC Server?
Powered by the latest AMD EPYC CPUs, Scan 3XS servers are high performance systems that enable researchers, data scientists and analysts to gain rapid insights into ever larger datasets.
How to choose your 3XS Server
Configuring a new server or servers can seem like a daunting process, with dozens if not hundreds of decisions to make about the hardware configuration - CPUs, GPUs, memory, storage and network connectivity. This can be simplified by asking one question - what are you planning to use the server for? If you intend the use to be back-up or archiving, file sharing or demanding applications such as big data analytics, high performance computing (HPC) or AI, then many of these decisions will fall into place.
The dawn of a new era
AMD EPYC 9004 CPUs mark a new chapter in the EPYC story, with a new SP5 socket enabling support for a host of platform improvements. Leadership memory bandwidth and capacity is provided by support for 12-channels of 12TB of DDR5 memory. In addition the I/O has been upgraded to 128 lanes of PCIe 5.0, providing double the bandwidth of PCIe 4.0. Finally, switching to a new 5nm manufacturing process enables the core count to be increased from 64 to an unparalleled 128 cores. All this at the same time as providing excellent Infinity Guard cybersecurity features built into the hardware.
Expanded instruction set
The instruction set of AMD EPYC 9004 CPUs has been expanded, adding in native support for AVX-512, VNNI (Vector Neural Network Instructions) and BFLOAT16 (Brain Floating Point 16-bit) to accelerate the most demanding HPC, deep learning and AI workloads.
Leadership performance
1. Top of stack compare between AMD 96c EPYC 9654 and 64c 7763 CPUs SPECrate©2017_fp_base scores.
2. Top of stack compare between AMD 96c EPYC 9654 and Intel 40c Platinum 8380 SPECrate2017_int_base scores.
Expandable memory
In addition to the 12TB of DDR5 DRAM AMD EPYC 9004 CPUs also support Type 3 Memory Expansion modules using the CXL 1.1 protocol. CXL (Compute Express Link) is an open standard for CPU to CPU and CPU to memory connections using the same physical slots as the PCIe. The AMD EPYC 9004 platform supports CXL-compatible memory modules in two modes, memory expansion to boost bandwidth and capacity or memory pooling.
EPYC P-Series
The P-series is a range of single socket CPUs. They have the same features and capabilities of standard EPYC processors, but have been designed around a couple of specific scenarios - firstly that up to 64-cores in a single processor is enough that a second CPU is not required, and secondly for GPU-accelerated servers, where the majority of compute occurs in the GPU rather than CPU, so an over-specified CPU can be an expense that is rarely utilised.
Award Winning Customisation
All 3XS EPYC based servers are fully customisable to enable you to choose the ideal system for your particular needs, whether this be high performance computing (HPC), big data analytics or AI workloads. 3XS servers are designed and built at a cutting edge build facility in the UK
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Why buy AMD products from Scan?
Scan and AMD have been close partners for many years. It’s this relationship that has allowed us to bring you the very best prices, knowledge, service and support you would expect when buying a AMD product from Scan.
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