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Will you be buying Intel-based machines? Or will you be running a hybrid-architecture cluster now? I don’t know very much about computing on that scale, but I

• lev99 9y ago
  AMD server CPUs currently outperform Intel on some multi-threaded benchmarks. This usually isn't a problem for people buying for peak-performance because you can always buy more CPUs to increase parallel programming speeds, but it's harder to make single threads faster. It's possible that the patches applied to fix this bug will cause some single-threaded benchmarks to change from Intel being the fastest to AMD being the fastest.
• myrandomcomment 9y ago
  So for what it is worth my company has all Intel kit. We run servers that run docker. In each docker container we do build / test for our product. That is all we use them for. 1RU with 2 blades, each blade is dual socket, 72 total cores, 512GB RAM. We will not apply this patch as none of this is public facing and we do not want the hit to build / test throughput. The one big thing that this has done is we were looking at AMD for new servers and that has now become a higher priority on the to do list. Given our environment we care about the number of containers we can run, period.
• dijit 9y ago
  It is overwhelmingly likely that we’ll buy more intel. Power/Watt has always been superior and AMD has to prove itself over time before we’d buy it. Not trying to kill expectations. This decision isn’t mine alone. You know the old saying “nobody got fired for buying Cisco” that applies to Intel too.