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Gigabyte Adds New GPU and Storage Servers to AMD EPYC Server Lineup

August 2, 2018

TAIPEI, Taiwan, Aug. 2, 2018 — GIGABYTE is proud today to officially add three new single-socket GPU and storage servers to our AMD EPYC family: the 2U G291-Z20 and G221-Z30 GPU servers, and the 4U S451-Z30 storage server.

AMD EPYC’s Single Socket Strengths

These three new systems exemplify the benefits of AMD EPYC as a single socket system that can displace the requirement for a dual socket server, with the EPYC’s impressive compute and I/O resources of 32 cores, 64 threads, over 2TB of memory capacity and 128 PCIe lanes per socket.

A single socket server can often be just as effective as a dual socket for many workloads, as explained in a study by Tirias Research: “There are few workloads that generate over 16 simultaneous threads per schedulable task or process, while most generate no more than eight threads per instance. Those running more than 16 threads per process are usually high performance computing (HPC) workloads that are suited to offload to a GPU rather than scaling up to higher socket counts. Most workloads, such as business logic running in virtual machines and cloud micro services running in containers, could run as fast and economically on a 1S server as they can on a 2S server…”

A single socket system has the potential to provide thousands of dollars of savings on software licensing when per processor software licensing costs are taken into account. And GIGABYTE has recently demonstrated that our server design is perfectly optimized for AMD EPYC by achieving the top score of the SPEC CPU 2017 Benchmark for AMD EPYC single socket* systems.