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There's a lot of interest in Epyc for certain use cases. It's just the server world moves slowly because when you're spending millions on massive amounts of har
by TazeTSchnitzel 8y ago
There's a lot of interest in Epyc for certain use cases. It's just the server world moves slowly because when you're spending millions on massive amounts of hardware, and it needs to run 24/7 for years without defects, you want to make sure it works.
- rbanffy 8y agoCloud moves slowly because you don't want to force users to redeploy and, once racked, those boxes stay there for a good couple years. In-house ever-expanding large installs are much more agile. Look at how Google adopted POWER, to how Cray is offering ARM nodes in their supercomputers.
- jaxtellerSoA 8y ago> It's just the server world moves slowly THIS! I am not sure why people are expecting Epyc to take off like a rocket, it won't. Companies maintaining 24/7 hardware don't jump on new tech. I think Epyc will eventually take a good chunk of the market, but it will take a few years. Also, if you are expanding an existing VMWare stack you can't mix CPU architecture and have HA. So unless you are building a new stack, then Epyc might not even be an option, even if the Admin might prefer Epyc.