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Power9 is an interesting choice vs. x86. Anyone know the reasoning?
by fiatmoney 12y ago
Power9 is an interesting choice vs. x86. Anyone know the reasoning?
- ams6110 12y agoIt's better for massive parallelization, which is normally what you want for large scale data crunching. More threads per core than Xeon.
- davidmr 12y agoThere are probably other reasons, but the NVLink interconnect is expected to show up on Power systems long before Intel, putting the GPUs much, much closer to system CPU and memory. This thing is going to be a beast.
- bra-ket 12y agoibm sales power