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Twelve point two billion transistors. That's absolutely nuts. Does anyone have a ballpark figure for how much a 'drawer' of four of these things costs? What's i
by RantyDave 7y ago
Twelve point two billion transistors. That's absolutely nuts. Does anyone have a ballpark figure for how much a 'drawer' of four of these things costs? What's it supposed to run, is this an Oracle/DB2 beast?
- tibbetts 7y agoThere is a version of DB2 for mainframe, but it’s a totally different codebase as I understand it. The operating system on a mainframe provides a lot of what modern app developers get from their database and caching systems, generally with better fault tolerance and availability. So if you have an app built for mainframe, it often will not have an external database dependency. Doing transactions can just look like writing to memory or files.
- rodgerd 7y agoWhen I was running Z for Linux the costing was in the order of six figures per processor.
- WC3w6pXxgGd 7y agoThe cost will decrease over time, just like all tech.
- unixhero 7y agoHighly dense Docker hypervisor hypervisor hypervisor.
- RantyDave 7y agoNobody's even mentioned Crysis.
- DaiPlusPlus 7y ago> is this an Oracle/DB2 beast? My impression is that RDBMS workloads are generally far more IO-intensive than CPU-intensive. Looking at my own Azure SQL CPU vs IO vs Log charts right now, even with some CPU-heavy OLAP queries barely passes 25% CPU in the 2 vCore-sized database used in my current main project.
- tsimionescu 7y agoWouldn't a DB benefit enormously from faster memory access? Perhaps you're only getting 25% CPU usage because the CPU is stalled waiting for main memory to reply...
- imtringued 7y agoAn EPYC processor with 64 cores contains 40 billion transistors spread over 8+1 dies.