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With all the craziness of different CPUs and server configs... just makes me want to hurry up and go serverless!
by spo81rty 9y ago
With all the craziness of different CPUs and server configs... just makes me want to hurry up and go serverless!
- boulos 9y agoThat's why we didn't do this with machine types. If you don't care, you don't have to. If you care, ask for a particular CPU platform (or newer). Most people won't and probably shouldn't care, but Skylake is enough of a jump that we finally are giving people the explicit ability to choose. Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.
- euyyn 9y ago> Skylake is enough of a jump Can you give more details about this?
- boulos 9y agoBoth clock-for-clock and even more strongly for applications that can take advantage of AVX-512, Skylake can be a lot faster than either Haswell/Broadwell. Like the jump from Sandybridge/Ivybridge to Haswell/Broadwell, the jump to Skylake is a big one. For now the best comparisons are going to come from independent sources like Anandtech and hopefully from customers running their actual code on Skylake and publishing the results.
- codinghorror 9y agoI mean it is no Kaby Lake ;)
- novembermike 9y agoTo be fair, there's also a general purpose option for both AWS and GCE. AWS has the M4 and GCE has the n1, something in the middle for either should be good enough for most applications.
- boulos 9y agoNo, m4 (mostly) is a specific architecture. There were things before it like m3. I'm not saying it's hard to understand what to do when new ones come out, but for each architecture there's a new machine family. GCE has only historically provided n1-whatever and you got whatever CPU platform we had in that specific building.