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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

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Post by nickpeterson »

mtgx wrote: post #2

Hopefully it will be the the first to offer the much cheaper AMD Ryzen/Naples, too.

Any idea on Naples timeframe for retail? I'm hoping to build a small workstation in a few months and 32 cores sounds like it might let me browse hacker news faster.

Re: Google Cloud Platform is the first cloud provider to offer Intel Skylake

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Post by zbjornson »

lightedman wrote: post #17

I'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.

What do you mean by "gimped?" As in the consumer chips without AVX512 vs. the server chips with AVX512?

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Post by reitzensteinm »

lightedman wrote: post #17

I'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.

Depends on the workload. A compute bound vectorizable problem could be four times faster on Skylake.

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Post by ComputerGuru »

Cyph0n wrote: post #6
stuckagain wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How much confidence do you have that Rev. A Ryzen parts will even work?

That's a bit too extreme, don't you think? Disliking AMD is one thing, but claiming that the entire initial run of an AMD processor might be faulty is just silly. My guess is that you have no idea how much effort goes into verification and testing of something as complex as a microprocessor. A significant chunk of NRE costs goes into verification and test AFAIK.

Not really. AMD's Phenom was a flop and the initial batch had a horrible TLB bug. Their FX processors were also hugely hyped and hugely disappointing.

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Post by forgot-my-pw »

rattray wrote: post #20
seehafer wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

GCP is generally cheaper than AWS.

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Post by the_mitsuhiko »

lightedman wrote: post #17

I'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.

Does Google provide machines with AMD processors?

Re: Google Cloud Platform is the first cloud provider to offer Intel Skylake

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Post by matt_wulfeck »

stuckagain wrote: post #5
mtgx wrote: post #2

Hopefully it will be the the first to offer the much cheaper AMD Ryzen/Naples, too.

How much confidence do you have that Rev. A Ryzen parts will even work?

Don't you worry. The reverend A. Ryzen will deliver us from Intel's tyranny with his fiery sermons on single threaded cost-per-compute.
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