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Time to switch to an Epyc host?
by bfrog 9y ago
Time to switch to an Epyc host?
- dogma1138 9y agoAMD is vulnerable to Spectre and are not fixing variant 2 because it’s “near zero risk”. By near zero risk they mean that no one has yet reversed engineered their branch prediction which is required to effectively exploit it. Give it sometime and the BTI patch would have to be enforced on AMD CPUs also.
- FBISurveillance 9y agoWe're actually using those new 24-core Epyc hosts for our data science pipeline (HDP/Spark cluster) and they work much better than our previous generation Xeon-based builds. Unfortunately, with those things it takes plenty of time to re-evaluate hardware + in our case we're mostly in the cloud where Skylakes on GCP is the most we can get.