Pixar & healthcare organizations’ optimized migration journeys to AMD (MAM227)

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Optimizing AWS Workloads with AMD

  1. Performance Optimization Leads to Cost Savings and Better Application Performance
    • 2/3 of cloud infrastructure spend doesn't generate business value, leaving only 1/3 of compute cycles for revenue-generating workloads.
    • AMD EPYC-powered Gen 7 instances on AWS provide the best x86 performance and price-performance, allowing customers to achieve 2x performance and 37% OpEx savings.
    • Customers like Netflix, Amagi, and Neural Magic have seen significant performance improvements and cost savings by migrating to AMD-powered instances.

Healthcare: Scaling EHR Systems with AMD on AWS

  1. Importance of Resilience and Performance for Healthcare Customers
    • Healthcare providers are migrating their core clinical systems, such as Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems, to AWS for increased security, cost optimization, and performance.
    • Resilience is achieved through AWS's global infrastructure with multiple availability zones and regions, allowing for high availability and failover capabilities.
    • Performance is critical for large healthcare providers using the Epic EHR system, and AMD processors on AWS can deliver the required global references per second for 95% of Epic customers.

Rendering Animation with AMD on AWS

  1. Rendering Advancements and Compute Requirements at Pixar

    • Pixar's RenderMan has evolved over the decades, requiring exponential growth in compute power to support increasingly complex and sophisticated visual effects and animations.
    • AMD cores are at the heart of Pixar's compute infrastructure, enabling the team to develop new algorithms and techniques to push the boundaries of animated storytelling.
    • Pixar's RenderMan Art Challenge leverages AMD and AWS resources to provide global artists with access to powerful compute resources, fostering creativity and community engagement.
  2. Collaboration with AMD and AWS

    • Pixar has worked closely with AMD to test and validate future hardware and software needs, enabling the studio to stay ahead of the curve in rendering capabilities.
    • The partnership with AMD and AWS has empowered Pixar to expand the scope and quality of their animated productions, while also supporting educational initiatives like the RenderMan Art Challenge.

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