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Roundup: AMD closes ZT Systems and teams with Rapt for AI development; bands with Oracle

By combining AMD Instinct GPUs with Rapt AI’s intelligent workload automation, customers can maximize GPU utilization, reduce TCO, and optimize resource allocation for AI inference and training. It also streamlines GPU management across on-premise and multi-cloud environments for seamless AI deployment and increased inference performance.
AMD says Rapt’s platform works out-of-the-box with Instinct GPUs, helping ensure immediate performance benefits. Ongoing collaboration between Rapt and AMD will drive further optimizations in exciting areas such as GPU scheduling and memory utilization.
5th Gen Epyc on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Oracle has announced the availability of fifth generation AMD Epyc processors (codenamed “Turin”) on its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) cloud services.
The new OCI Compute E6 shapes are for general-purpose and compute-intensive workloads. These OCI shapes add to the selection of more than a thousand compute instances powered by AMD Epyc processors across all major cloud service providers.
OCI Compute E6 Standard bare metal instances and virtual machines are available today in multiple regions, including US East (Ashburn), US West (Phoenix), US Midwest (Chicago), Germany Central (Frankfurt), and UK South (London), with a rollout planned for additional regions in the coming months.