> a good business just selling to Apple(servers), Facebook, AWS, GCP and Azure
How can other clients get in on this? My CS department (UK university) is wanting to replace servers (and extend ML capacity) and I've been making them wait until AMD availability becomes clearer (but I can only do that for so long...).
There's definitely a market here - if anyone from AMD happens to be reading this and would like to demo... though I'm not sure our volume would be quite the same scale as the above.
You are (like us) most likely too small. Unless you are buying 1,000 machines at a time you don't get there :(
Waiting one more quarter for AMD servers to arrive from the major vendors is a good idea. But if your spend is in the millions then you can probably get the contracts (if needed for budget rules) and test systems now, especially if you ask the cluster builders.
If you can't buy them from your favorite vendor, look around and buy from whoever's selling them -- I see that SuperMicro says they're selling AMD EPYC servers. If your deal is big enough, any SuperMicro distributor can lend you a machine to test on.
Why not talk to OEM's? Many have been running benchmarks for some time and surely have an idea about performance -- though one important question is whether that "idea" is biased or not.
I believe Lisa Su's email is lisa.su at amds website. You should try writing her an email. She's from an academic background and may be willing to do something. Unlikely to work, but if you never ask the answer is always no.
How can other clients get in on this? My CS department (UK university) is wanting to replace servers (and extend ML capacity) and I've been making them wait until AMD availability becomes clearer (but I can only do that for so long...).
There's definitely a market here - if anyone from AMD happens to be reading this and would like to demo... though I'm not sure our volume would be quite the same scale as the above.