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UNIGROUP GENERAL MEETING
MEETING INTRODUCTION
AMD is coming back to Unigroup! AMD last presented their lineup of x86 CPU technology to Unigroup back in 2012. AMD has been developing new technology in recent years beyond Opteron, including Ryzen, Threadripper, EPYC and Rome, and we are planning to explore the new CPU and System Architectures enabled by these new platforms.
From AMD: It looks like AMD might have a decent number of AMD attendees at Unigroup, since we have multiple sales, applications and engineering folks in town for other meetings. Potentially most interesting, we will have two engineers from our security team available to talk about last year's side channel exploits and what AMD has coming down the pike to secure servers at boot and virtual machines at runtime. (A tentative list of AMD attendees is posted.)
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DIRECTIONS
Location:
The Cooper Union (http://www.cooper.edu)
School of Engineering (*** New Building ***)
41 Cooper Square (3rd Avenue @ 7th Street, between 6th & 7th Streets)
East Village, Manhattan
New York City, 10003
Meeting Room: ** (See Above, Room May Change Month-to-Month)
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Topic: AMD Processor Technology Roadmap featuring EPYC+Rome Architectures
Related Topics/Keywords:
AMD EPYC, AMD Rome, AMD Naples, AMD Ryzen, AMD Threadripper, Computer System Architecture, CPU Architecture, Bus Architecture, Memory Architecture, CPU Selection, CPU Sidechannel Exploits, Meltdown, Spectre, Meltdown, Foreshadow, AMD, Intel, X86.
Introduction & Description of Talk:
AMD Solutions Architects will be presenting AMD's latest Platform Technology Roadmap, featuring the EPYC+Rome Server CPU Architectures.
AMD is back with a vengeance in the datacenter! Come hear what AMD has been up to and where AMD is going...
In general, we are planning to discuss:
Presentation Outline:
Detailed Outline:
References & Web Resources:
AMD:
http://www.amd.com
AMD Server Processors Page:
https://www.amd.com/en/products/servers-processors
AMD Embedded Processors Page:
https://www.amd.com/en/products/embedded
AMD Product Roadmaps:
http://ir.amd.com/static-files/a63127c4-569f-4fbe-9fcf-54c24dcfa808
AMD EPYC Product Line Overview:
https://www.amd.com/en/products/epyc-server
AMD EPYC Developer Resources (optimizing compiler, math libraries,
profiling tools):
https://developer.amd.com/tools-and-sdks
AMD Developer - Secure Encrypted Virtualization:
https://developer.amd.com/sev
Wikipedia on AMD:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Micro_Devices
ServeTheHome Review: EPYC 7371 - The Fastest 16 Core CPU:
https://www.servethehome.com/amd-epyc-7371-pricing-update-an-insane-value
AnandTech EPYC Benchmarks:
https://www.anandtech.com/show/11544/intel-skylake-ep-vs-amd-epyc-7000-cpu-battle-of-the-decade
Wikipedia on Comparison of AMD Processors:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_AMD_processors
Wikipedia on List of AMD Microprocessors:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_microprocessors
Wikipedia on List of AMD APUs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_accelerated_processing_unit_microprocessors
Wikipedia on List of AMD GPUs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_graphics_processing_units
Wikipedia on List of AMD Chipsets:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_chipsets
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY
Lewis Carroll, Director, Field Applications Engineering / Datacenter & Enterprise Group
Lewis Carroll is Director of Field Applications Engineering for Advanced Micro Devices' Datacenter and Embedded Solutions business unit. In this capacity, Mr. Carroll is responsible for the growing North America and EMEA technical sales team for AMD's x86 server processors and datacenter GPUs. A 25 year industry veteran with a background in high-performance processors, Linux and system architecture, Mr. Carroll has most recently held technical sales and sales management roles at Broadcom Ltd. and NetLogic Microsystems. Mr. Carroll holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University and is an inventor on several patents.
COMPANY BIOGRAPHY
AMD - Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
For nearly 50 years, AMD has driven innovation in high-performance computing, graphics, and visualization technologies - the building blocks for gaming, immersive platforms, and the datacenter. Our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences.
For information about AMD, please visit: http://www.amd.com
GIVEAWAYS
Addison-Wesley Professional/Prentice Hall PTR/Pearson, and O'Reilly have been kind enough to provide us with review copies of some of their books, which we will continue to raffle off as giveaways at our meetings. The publishers always ask that the persons receiving the books provide a review and/or feedback about their books.
Unigroup would like to thank both publishing companies for the support provided by their User Group programs.
As always, all of the books will be available for review at the start of the meeting.
Note: Our book supply is currently running low, and we need to restock.
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FOOD AND REFRESHMENTS
Complimentary Food and Refreshments will be served. This includes "wraps" such as turkey, roast beef, chicken, tuna and grilled vegetables as well as assorted salads (potato, tossed, pasta, etc), cookies, brownies, bottled water and assorted beverages.
** However, due to a continuing situation at our caterer, we are planning to have: pizza (cheese+veggy), soda, water, cookies, and brownies at this meeting.
AMD will be sponsoring the food service for this meeting... Thanks AMD!
Please join us for this meeting, you won't want to miss it!
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