Are these E5-skylakes?
Google Cloud Platform is the first cloud provider to offer Intel Skylake
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Re: Google Cloud Platform is the first cloud provider to offer Intel Skylake
#12It's been awesome to see our Skylakes rolling in over the past several weeks. I personally have been waiting nearly 10 years for AVX-512 ever since playing with LRBni. Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (and helped a bit in our Skylake work).
Please relay back to your team that the moment you get Postgres for your Cloud SQL product you'll get a lot of AWS converts.
Re: Google Cloud Platform is the first cloud provider to offer Intel Skylake
#13It's been awesome to see our Skylakes rolling in over the past several weeks. I personally have been waiting nearly 10 years for AVX-512 ever since playing with LRBni. Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (and helped a bit in our Skylake work).
Please relay back to your team that the moment you get Postgres for your Cloud SQL product you'll get a lot of AWS converts.
Please come to NEXT in two weeks! (https://cloudnext.withgoogle.com). Most of the registration becomes credits :).
Re: Google Cloud Platform is the first cloud provider to offer Intel Skylake
#14It's been awesome to see our Skylakes rolling in over the past several weeks. I personally have been waiting nearly 10 years for AVX-512 ever since playing with LRBni. Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (and helped a bit in our Skylake work).
Please relay back to your team that the moment you get Postgres for your Cloud SQL product you'll get a lot of AWS converts.
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Re: Google Cloud Platform is the first cloud provider to offer Intel Skylake
#15>In our own internal tests, it improved application performance by up to 30%.
this post would have been interesting if they had included those tests.
Re: Google Cloud Platform is the first cloud provider to offer Intel Skylake
#16Just for reference, since you don't choose your processor explicitly on GCP, but instead choose your zone with homogenous processors, here is their current processor/zone layout: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/regions-zones/regions-...
Since some GCP engineers are watching: Presumably we'll see some new zones to provide these processors, or will it be a limited release within existing zones? And if so, will you be moving away from homogenous zones in the future?
Re: Google Cloud Platform is the first cloud provider to offer Intel Skylake
#17I'd rather wait for Ryzen. You won't know which Skylake processor you're getting - the gimped one or the non-gimped one. AMD tends to keep their features consistent across the line.
Re: Google Cloud Platform is the first cloud provider to offer Intel Skylake
#18I've been benchmarking these against Haswell and Broadwells. Despite being 300 MHz slower, we're getting between 5 and 45% faster benchmarks on linear algebra functions that we run a lot, even without doing much work to tailor to AVX512 instructions yet.
The cache is also a whopping 56 MB.
Re: Google Cloud Platform is the first cloud provider to offer Intel Skylake
#19I would be quite nice if they actually advertised the particular type of CPU core you rent, rather than some abstract unit of computation. Or at least some kind of performance baseline.
Re: Google Cloud Platform is the first cloud provider to offer Intel Skylake
#20It's been awesome to see our Skylakes rolling in over the past several weeks. I personally have been waiting nearly 10 years for AVX-512 ever since playing with LRBni. Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (and helped a bit in our Skylake work).
Please relay back to your team that the moment you get Postgres for your Cloud SQL product you'll get a lot of AWS converts.
Out of curiosity, why would you prefer Google Cloud to AWS?