The Road to 180M GRefs/s: Sizing Epic on AWS with R8ib and Enhanced EBS
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This article announces the availability of the new Amazon EC2 r8ib.96xlarge instance for healthcare workloads, specifically optimized for Epic's Chronicles Operational Database.
- r8ib.96xlarge enables Epic ODB to scale to 180 million global references per second (GRefs/s)
- Delivers 28% GRefs/s increase over previous generation r8i instances
- Features up to 384 vCPUs and 3TiB DDR5 memory with optimized bandwidth
- Incorporates 6th generation AWS Nitro cards for enhanced EBS I/O performance
- Provides up to 1,440K IOPs and 37.5 GB/s bandwidth with sub-millisecond latency
- Represents 10x improvement in ECP scalability since July 2021 (18M to 180M GRefs/s)
The r8ib.96xlarge instance enables large healthcare organizations to run Epic workloads on AWS that were previously limited to on-premises infrastructure.
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