phoenixNAP Enables Automated Provisioning of Servers with 4^th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors

Phoenix, AZ, April 5, 2023 – phoenixNAP^®, a global IT services provider offering security-focused cloud infrastructure, dedicated servers, colocation, cloud, and specialized Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) technology solutions, today announced the launch of 4^th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors in its Bare Metal Cloud platform. As Intel’s launch partner, phoenixNAP is of the first few providers to deliver Intel’s bleeding-edge workload acceleration and compute technologies.

Featuring new built-in workload accelerators, the 4^th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors open the door to new levels of efficiency and performance for demanding workloads.

These accelerators offload work from the CPU cores, allowing for more efficient resource utilization and higher business sustainability. Intel’s new Advanced Matrix Extensions (Intel AMX) boost AI training and inference performance for each individual core to improve deep learning workloads such as natural language processing. The new processors also feature Intel Data Streaming Accelerator (DSA) technology that speeds up data movement and transformation operations improving networking, queries, and analytics. With built-in In-Memory Analytics Accelerator (IAA), the 4^th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable CPUs further boost database performance while requiring lower memory bandwidth. In addition, Intel’s Dynamics Load Balancer (DLB) optimizes queue scheduling to reduce latency in applications such as packet processing.

To help organizations handle sensitive or regulated data securely, the CPUs provide access to the latest Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX) with new cryptographic memory integrity. Additionally, Intel’s QuickAssist Technology (QAT) accelerates cryptography, key protection, and bulk data compression freeing the CPU cores for higher client density on a single server.

phoenixNAP has made the 4^th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors available on its Bare Metal Cloud platform, enabling turnkey access to advanced workload acceleration technologies. API-driven and globally deployed in minutes, the new Bare Metal Cloud instances help organizations optimize AI, analytics, networking, storage, and HPC workloads with reduced TCO. The increased multi-socket and memory bandwidth enables greater performance efficiencies, while advanced hardware-rooted encryption features provide enhanced data security. Through support for the latest Intel Optane Persistent Memory 300 series, the servers provide low latency, high endurance, and breakthrough system memory capacity.

4^th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors on Bare Metal Cloud deliver immediate value for the following use cases:

• AI – Recommendation systems, natural language processing, image recognition, object detection, machine learning, video analytics
• Data Analytics – RDBMSs, In-memory databases, big data analytics, data warehousing
• Networking – Hardware cryptography, packet processing, content delivery network, security gateway
• Storage – High-performance, distributed, and virtual storage deployments
• High Performance Computing (HPC) – Computational fluid dynamics, molecular dynamics, weather simulation, AI inference & training, FinTech, drug discovery
• Security – Confidential computing, regulatory or compliance workloads, federated learning systems