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

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Post by heh » Mon, Feb 27, 2017, 3:15 PM UTC

lucd wrote: post #179

heh wrote: post #129

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That's fair and you won't get any arguments from me there. It's very easy to run singleton Linux machines on Azure and I have no complaints there. I wasn't going to lay it out here, but, as I have your ear: I'm not saying it's impossible to run a Linux stack on Azure - but man, trying to image the machine, for example, is a whole rigamarole. Want to run your own image on a scale set? Oh, well, you need to craft a JSO…

For you ssh sessions, have you tried to use ssh keepalive ? (ex: ServerAliveInterval option on an openssh client)

I've added it to my config yesterday, I hope it helps :) Thanks for the tip!

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

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Post by flamedoge » Tue, Feb 28, 2017, 1:06 AM UTC

blockoperation wrote: post #190

flamedoge wrote: post #116

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mobile chips have them disabled I believe

It's available on my laptop at least: $ egrep '^(model name|microcode)' /proc/cpuinfo | head -n2 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6820HQ CPU @ 2.70GHz microcode : 0x9e $ egrep -o ' (hle|rtm) ' /proc/cpuinfo | head -n2 hle rtm This is a mobile chip and an old stepping (and running the microcode that supposedly addresses the issue, presumably by disabling it on 'bad' chips?), so I'd be surprised if newer chips (especi…

Hmm TIL. I think newer ones had an errata (or many) and Intel decided it wasn't worth fixing. Disappointing, but meh.. it is probably true that not many people use Tmem on laptops.

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

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Post by dantiberian » Tue, Feb 28, 2017, 10:56 PM UTC

boulos wrote: post #172

tambourine_man wrote: post #171

Constructive criticism: Your calculator page is unusable on mobile due to fancy "material" form filling. https://cloud.google.com/products/calculator/

You are too polite. I've reported this before, and I'd easily add an expletive in front of unusable. Worse, it's not even Viewable on mobile.

Also, the bandwidth calculator seems to be broken, I can't add bandwidth charges for services through the calculator.

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

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Post by jdhawk » Sat, Mar 04, 2017, 8:40 PM UTC

boulos wrote: post #161

jdhawk wrote: post #151

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No - I believe these will be up to 64core & 416GB

Nope. Bigger :).

Interesting, are you guys decoupling the 1.6GB/RAM per core requirement?

I'd love to spin up a 32x512GB for a DB Server.