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I'd love to have 256-way servers available, for maximum performance. These would be incredibly competitive, surpassing the best available offerings from AWS and GCP at the moment (whose normal offerings top out at 96 and 224 CPUs respectively).
While I'm sure some applications will want a huge amount of memory to go with that, in my case I'd be happy with around 2GB per CPU. It'd likely make sense to have a "high compute" version in that range, as well as an offering with 4+GB per CPU for more memory-intensive workloads.
This comment was imported from Canny. Originally created by: Jessie Brickner with 0 likes.
I 16th this. Having the option for the single socket 64-core Epycs would be great for us.
This comment was imported from Canny. Originally created by: Josh Triplett with 2 likes.
Paul Teich Honestly, while I'd love to have 256, even 128 would already be quite helpful, and that's available single-socket today.
This comment was imported from Canny. Originally created by: Paul Teich with 0 likes.
This seems to be a vCPUs request - virtual cores, not processor sockets. AWS, GCP, Azure define virtual cores as one execution thread, so a 48-core processor with two threads per core (aka Hyperthreading, at least for Intel) is 96 vCPUs. When AMD hits 128 cores / 256 threads per socket, this will be done... Metal is focusing on single-socket servers, so maybe in the next couple of years. ;v)
This comment was imported from Canny. Originally created by: Victor Stewart with 1 likes.
i'd love this but prefer a single socket machine to avoid NUMA latencies. but 2 of them could be great too.
This comment was imported from Canny. Originally created by: Josh Triplett with 0 likes.
James Malachowski: Or just 2-socket with EPYC. (I'd love to have Xeons with persistent memory, too, longer-term. But a lower-cost high-thread option would be valuable.)
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4 + 8 socket - for DBs, Oracle, SAP HANA, etc as well as persistent memory would also be interesting