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But let's say you want that data compressed and/or encrypted, you're going to need an awful lot of compute to exploit that 48GB/s if it's possible at all. Wher
by dralley 3y ago
But let's say you want that data compressed and/or encrypted, you're going to need an awful lot of compute to exploit that 48GB/s if it's possible at all.
Whereas on mainframe the service processors can deal with it transparently to the CPU using specialized hardware.
And let's say it's financial transactions - fixed-point decimal arithmetic. On mainframe, that can be hardware accelerated too.
- jeffbee 3y agoYes, and it's interesting how Intel is moving in that direction with their Xeon line, integrating the QAT peripheral for compression and encryption offloading. Unfortunately these things are unicorns and that aren't generally available in the cloud, either.
- ghaff 3y agoWell, the general approach over the past 30 years or so has just been to mostly go with generic x86 hardware which would get predictably faster year-over-year and software could be written pretty generically for those platforms. With performance growth slowing, one of the answers has been to have more heterogenous and special function hardware and the software people will just have to deal with it.