2 ms·
The public clouds will still buy it, mainly because AMD cannot manufacture enough 9004 series processors to meet their demand. Large orgs also like to have two
by jiggawatts 4y ago
The public clouds will still buy it, mainly because AMD cannot manufacture enough 9004 series processors to meet their demand. Large orgs also like to have two sources for each component to prevent excessive lock-in, price gouging, and other counterparty risks.
- jeffbee 4y agoThere aren't any genoa in public clouds, so if sapphire rapids arrives in general production soon it will indeed by head-to-head against milan. And in my experience even ice lake beats milan.
- re-thc 4y agoPerformance depends on which SKU the clouds run, which can differ depending on what they optimize for. In the past, most clouds have offered AMD as a "cheaper option" to Intel and so that's how it's been spec-ed. As this changes things might look a bit different.
- jiggawatts 4y agoAzure has 176 vCPU instances as private preview, but only in the "HPC" sizes: https://azure.microsoft.com/es-es/blog/do-more-with-less-using-new-azure-hx-and-hbv4-virtual-machines-for-hpc/ https://azure.microsoft.com/es-es/blog/do-more-with-less-usi... Apparently they're waiting for the v-cache enabled version to be available and they will buy those in bulk. I heard they'll be deploying them this month.
- re-thc 4y agoGenoa is delayed due to issues with its memory controller: https://semiaccurate.com/2023/03/13/a-bit-more-on-amds-genoa-memory-issues/ https://semiaccurate.com/2023/03/13/a-bit-more-on-amds-genoa... Most clouds do want huge instances.
- wmf 4y ago(If Intel charges $17K when they're losing, imagine what they would charge without competition.)