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If we could turn it into a NUMA machine with 48 CPUs, that would be a totally different story. This particular version seems to only support 1Gbit Ethernet, so

by ansible 13y ago

If we could turn it into a NUMA machine with 48 CPUs, that would be a totally different story. This particular version seems to only support 1Gbit Ethernet, so I don't know how well that will work. Still, we're talking about 192 cores with 384 Gbytes of RAM, that's got to be useful for some kind of workloads. Can you get that kind of density with Intel or AMD?

ris 13y ago
> Still, we're talking about 192 cores with 384 Gbytes of RAM Seeing as you're going to be keeping 48 copies of the same OS in that memory whether you want to or not, you're going to need those 384G.
- jws 13y ago
  I just checked a random server: OS and all process images are using 119MB, *48 = 5.5GB. I think I'll do just fine with the remaining 378G.
- rbanffy 13y ago
  These machines are designed for very specific workloads. Don't expect to be able to run Oracle or Exchange on them.
rbanffy 13y ago
> Can you get that kind of density with Intel or AMD? The new Xeon Phi's will have an external DDR3 bus. It's a different beast, intended for a different usage, but I always loved to misuse technology ;-)