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Try new Power8 CPU for free on RunAbove cloud: 176 threads!

58 points by baqs 12y ago

baqs 12y ago
RunAbove recently released a $2.50/month VPS, but they have also a power8 offer. This seems like an exclusivity. Anybody tried it already ?
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- aroch 12y ago
  It's just another shell company for OVH, not an exclusive they just buy a lot of CPUs (especially Atom chips) Also, it seems like you and a few others are sockpuppet accounts
- o_erreip 12y ago
  FYI I am currently working there and can give you some proper benchmark results running MySQL on power8: https://twitter.com/o_erreip/status/521411270411816962 https://twitter.com/o_erreip/status/521411270411816962 We are trying to optimize it with Stewart Smith, who achieved 1 million req/s on p8
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jonifico 12y ago
Absolutely massive!
jtlebigot 12y ago
Make sure to provision a huge screen if you ever plan to run htop. Or you might not even be able to see the top of the process list...
- lcedp 12y ago
  Or just Setup -> Meters -> CPUs bar -> Remove (However leave the CPU (average) bar)
nicolaslm 12y ago
Well, here is what htop looks like with 176 threads: https://community.runabove.com/kb/images/2014-10-06-power8/htop.png https://community.runabove.com/kb/images/2014-10-06-power8/h...
- Beltiras 12y ago
  The creators of htop just need to get inventive on how to present the data. One idea is to change it into a histogram of percentages (these many threads @ this level of use).
xSwag 12y ago
I've just read their main website. Out bandwidth at $0.01 per GB? Has anybody tried this? Looks too good to be true.
- StevenLeRoux 12y ago
  Disclamer : working @ovh > "Looks too good to be true" It's not :) we built a brand new network to be able to offer this at scale.
  - xSwag 12y ago
    Brilliant, I can finally implement one of my bandwidth intensive ideas! Thanks Steven!
    - StevenLeRoux 12y ago
      You're welcome ! feel free to feedback your impressions or remarks @runabove : https://twitter.com/runabove https://twitter.com/runabove
  - aroch 12y ago
    Is this "brand new" network substantively different from the one you launched last year? Looks to me like this is still based off of OVH's (oft never fully online) internal 1Tbps network + a lot of rented fiber or virtual-PoP over rented transit. Is the bandwidth still part of the lackluster Volume network you use in your French DCs?
scott00 12y ago
Can anybody explain the sorts of workloads for which the Power8 architecture would be a cost-effective option?
- StevenLeRoux 12y ago
  It's useful for hightly intensive workload that can't be distributed but that can use multicore. Like SQL databases, video encoding, etc...
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Torgo 12y ago
Can you run Java with full JIT on Power8? What about nodejs? I know IBM did some talks/slideshares of porting nodejs to power.
- wmf 12y ago
  Yes, Java and Node work.
Marat_Dukhan 12y ago
Here is the /proc/cpuinfo: processor : 0 cpu : POWER8E (raw), altivec supported clock : 3026.000000MHz revision : 2.1 (pvr 004b 0201) timebase : 512000000 platform : pSeries model : IBM pSeries (emulated by qemu) machine : CHRP IBM pSeries (emulated by qemu) The OS (Fedora 19) runs on Big-Endian ABI. Python is available out-of-box. Ruby, Java (OpenJDK) and Nginx are available from yum, Node.js and Mono are not.
bonif 12y ago
Quick benchmark, compared to this one Intel Xeon E5-1620v2 4c/8t 3,7 GHz+/3,9 GHz+ [0] #Intel sysbench --test=cpu --cpu-max-prime=100000 --num-threads=8 run execution time (avg/stddev): 29.8777/0.01 #Power8 sysbench --test=cpu --cpu-max-prime=100000 run --num-threads=8 execution time (avg/stddev): 9.5050/0.00 sysbench --test=cpu --cpu-max-prime=100000 run --num-threads=16 execution time (avg/stddev): 4.7733/0.01 sysbench --test=cpu --cpu-max-prime=100000 run --num-threads=126 execution time (avg/stddev): 2.6502/0.14 [0] http://www.ovh.com/us/dedicated-servers/infra/2014-EG-32.xml http://www.ovh.com/us/dedicated-servers/infra/2014-EG-32.xml
- Koahku 12y ago
  Pretty impressive I wonder what the temps look like and how it would perform at 3D rendering and video encoding.
  - bonif 12y ago
    I would be really interested for a database server, right now they offer a single ssd (no RAID), this is a no-go for a production db.
    - nicolaslm 12y ago
      Not exactly, it says "Local RAID" on the Power8 lab page. So it's a RAID of HDD.
      - bonif 12y ago
        yes, I forgot it is actually a single virtual machine running on a physical server. The main disk is /dev/vda2
  - gsnedders 12y ago
    They run hot. Yes, they've been improving on heat output and power consumption, but they're certainly not anywhere near most Intel parts — that said, they're chasing a market where perf matters above all else. Video encoding probably wouldn't be so great comparatively, in large part because I don't think any encoders use the POWER8 vector stuff.

58 points by baqs 12y ago

baqs 12y ago

RunAbove recently released a $2.50/month VPS, but they have also a power8 offer. This seems like an exclusivity. Anybody tried it already ?

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aroch 12y ago
It's just another shell company for OVH, not an exclusive they just buy a lot of CPUs (especially Atom chips) Also, it seems like you and a few others are sockpuppet accounts
o_erreip 12y ago
FYI I am currently working there and can give you some proper benchmark results running MySQL on power8: https://twitter.com/o_erreip/status/521411270411816962 https://twitter.com/o_erreip/status/521411270411816962 We are trying to optimize it with Stewart Smith, who achieved 1 million req/s on p8
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jonifico 12y ago

Absolutely massive!

jtlebigot 12y ago

Make sure to provision a huge screen if you ever plan to run htop. Or you might not even be able to see the top of the process list...

lcedp 12y ago
Or just Setup -> Meters -> CPUs bar -> Remove (However leave the CPU (average) bar)

nicolaslm 12y ago

Well, here is what htop looks like with 176 threads: https://community.runabove.com/kb/images/2014-10-06-power8/htop.png https://community.runabove.com/kb/images/2014-10-06-power8/h...

Beltiras 12y ago
The creators of htop just need to get inventive on how to present the data. One idea is to change it into a histogram of percentages (these many threads @ this level of use).

xSwag 12y ago

I've just read their main website. Out bandwidth at $0.01 per GB? Has anybody tried this? Looks too good to be true.

StevenLeRoux 12y ago
Disclamer : working @ovh > "Looks too good to be true" It's not :) we built a brand new network to be able to offer this at scale.
- xSwag 12y ago
  Brilliant, I can finally implement one of my bandwidth intensive ideas! Thanks Steven!
  - StevenLeRoux 12y ago
    You're welcome ! feel free to feedback your impressions or remarks @runabove : https://twitter.com/runabove https://twitter.com/runabove
- aroch 12y ago
  Is this "brand new" network substantively different from the one you launched last year? Looks to me like this is still based off of OVH's (oft never fully online) internal 1Tbps network + a lot of rented fiber or virtual-PoP over rented transit. Is the bandwidth still part of the lackluster Volume network you use in your French DCs?

scott00 12y ago

Can anybody explain the sorts of workloads for which the Power8 architecture would be a cost-effective option?

StevenLeRoux 12y ago
It's useful for hightly intensive workload that can't be distributed but that can use multicore. Like SQL databases, video encoding, etc...
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Torgo 12y ago

Can you run Java with full JIT on Power8? What about nodejs? I know IBM did some talks/slideshares of porting nodejs to power.

wmf 12y ago
Yes, Java and Node work.

Marat_Dukhan 12y ago

Here is the /proc/cpuinfo: processor : 0 cpu : POWER8E (raw), altivec supported clock : 3026.000000MHz revision : 2.1 (pvr 004b 0201) timebase : 512000000 platform : pSeries model : IBM pSeries (emulated by qemu) machine : CHRP IBM pSeries (emulated by qemu) The OS (Fedora 19) runs on Big-Endian ABI. Python is available out-of-box. Ruby, Java (OpenJDK) and Nginx are available from yum, Node.js and Mono are not.

bonif 12y ago

Quick benchmark, compared to this one Intel Xeon E5-1620v2 4c/8t 3,7 GHz+/3,9 GHz+ [0] #Intel sysbench --test=cpu --cpu-max-prime=100000 --num-threads=8 run execution time (avg/stddev): 29.8777/0.01 #Power8 sysbench --test=cpu --cpu-max-prime=100000 run --num-threads=8 execution time (avg/stddev): 9.5050/0.00 sysbench --test=cpu --cpu-max-prime=100000 run --num-threads=16 execution time (avg/stddev): 4.7733/0.01 sysbench --test=cpu --cpu-max-prime=100000 run --num-threads=126 execution time (avg/stddev): 2.6502/0.14 [0] http://www.ovh.com/us/dedicated-servers/infra/2014-EG-32.xml http://www.ovh.com/us/dedicated-servers/infra/2014-EG-32.xml

Koahku 12y ago
Pretty impressive I wonder what the temps look like and how it would perform at 3D rendering and video encoding.
- bonif 12y ago
  I would be really interested for a database server, right now they offer a single ssd (no RAID), this is a no-go for a production db.
  - nicolaslm 12y ago
    Not exactly, it says "Local RAID" on the Power8 lab page. So it's a RAID of HDD.
    - bonif 12y ago
      yes, I forgot it is actually a single virtual machine running on a physical server. The main disk is /dev/vda2
- gsnedders 12y ago
  They run hot. Yes, they've been improving on heat output and power consumption, but they're certainly not anywhere near most Intel parts — that said, they're chasing a market where perf matters above all else. Video encoding probably wouldn't be so great comparatively, in large part because I don't think any encoders use the POWER8 vector stuff.