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Cavium’s is a 96 core x 4 node in a 2U config. Sure it’s high end, but it’s what you need to compete with similar compute dense rack servers from eg Dell.
by marmaduke 8y ago
Cavium’s is a 96 core x 4 node in a 2U config. Sure it’s high end, but it’s what you need to compete with similar compute dense rack servers from eg Dell.
- floatboth 8y agoThe original ThunderX was up to 96 cores in 2 sockets, but single core perfomance was unimpressive (comparable to Cortex-A72). ThunderX2 is 64 cores in 2 sockets, with 4-way SMT, up to 3GHz turbo, and the cores are way better. // It's great that they're competing with dense rack servers, I just wish the low end to mid range market wasn't ignored :(
- marmaduke 8y agoYep I guess it’s a ramp up issue. Easier to have bare metal hard ware at high end and then slice it up into cheap servers.