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I’m going to look up what SVE extensions are, but before I do, how much work (as a proportion of all work done on EC2) couldn’t be done on G2? I generally go of

I’m going to look up what SVE extensions are, but before I do, how much work (as a proportion of all work done on EC2) couldn’t be done on G2? I generally go off the assumption that most EC2 instances are hosting web servers and database servers, along with a handful, relatively, of CI servers and perhaps a sprinkling of video transcoders, 3D renderers and ML trainers. How much of that work can’t be done with the operations supported by G2? Is it just the long tail?

ksec 5y ago
>I’m going to look up what SVE extensions are, SIMD instructions, basically in the Intel x86 world that is like SSE4. > Can’t be done on G2 Probably close to zero? Assuming your code compiles and run on ARM. It is just a matter of whether that operation is fast or slow, or in AWS terms whether it is cost effective since those EC2 instances are priced differently. And that cost includes porting and testing your software on ARM. For a lot of Web Server workload, G2 nearly offer 50% reduction in cost at the same or better performance. At the scale of twitter it absolutely makes sense to move those operation over. There are some workloads that dont like well things like 3D Renderers, or software that has too many x86 specific optimisation and takes too. much man power to port. So yes in that sense it will be a long tail of x86 instances. ( Assuming that is what you are referring to long tail )