Netflix considers switching from Intel to AMD EPYC in its datacenters

mood · Nov 5, 2019

Netflix considers switching from Intel to AMD EPYC in its datacenters
Netflix could use single AMD EPYC to replace dual-socket Intel Xeon CPUs in its datacenters
November 5, 2019
https://www.tweaktown.com/news/6857...itching-intel-amd-epyc-datacenters/index.html

AMD has been making all the right moves lately with its EPYC line of processors, but now a huge name might be changing over from Intel Xeon CPUs to AMD EPYC CPUs in its datacenters: Netflix.

Netflix has servers in place that can hit 100Gbps of bandwidth, but as you can expect from a streaming giant like Netflix it is always looking forward. The next goal from there is a 200Gbps server, so Netflix has the option of going to a dual-socket Intel Xeon set up or a single-socket AMD EPYC solution.

A single-socket AMD EPYC 7502P solution has 120-150GB/sec of memory bandwidth (much higher than the 60-90GB/sec on the Intel Xeon solutions) and 128 lanes of PCIe 4.0 with 200GB/sec of I/O bandwidth (much, much higher than the 32-38GB/sec on the Intel Xeon solutions).
Netflix has considered moving to a dual Intel Xeon CPU solution, but a single AMD EPYC solution is much cheaper.
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mood · Sep 22, 2021

Netflix leverages AMD Epyc processors to achieve 400 Gbps video data flow per server
Epyc servers for epic streaming bandwidth
September 21, 2021
https://www.techspot.com/news/91345-netflix-achieves-400-gbps-video-data-flow-server.html

Why it matters: It's no secret that AMD's Epyc server CPUs are selling like hotcakes, to the point where Intel is having to heavily discount Xeon chips to stop existing and potential hyperscale customers from going with Team Red. That said, there's a reason why organizations are increasingly looking at options and in some cases choosing AMD over Intel when it comes to building their data center infrastructure.

Recently, Netflix senior software engineer Drew Gallatin offered some valuable insights into the company's efforts to optimize the hardware and software architecture that makes it possible to stream enormous amounts of video entertainment to over 209 million subscribers. The company had been able to squeeze as much as 200 Gb per second from a single server, but at the same time wanted to take things up a notch.
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Gallatin said that Netflix was able to push content at up to 400 Gb per second using a combination of AMD's 32-core Epyc 7502p (Rome) CPUs, 256 gigabytes of DDR4-3200 memory, 18 2-terabyte Western Digital SN720 NVMe drives, and two PCIe 4.0 x16 Nvidia Mellanox ConnectX-6 Dx network adapters, each capable of accommodating two 100 Gb connections.

Not content with the 400 Gb per second result, the company is already building a new system that should handle 800 Gb per second network connections.
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Netflix considers switching from Intel to AMD EPYC in its datacenters

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