No benchmarks. No FLOPs. No comparison to commodity hardware. I hate the cloud servers. "9 is faster than 8 which is faster than 7 which is faster than 6, ..., which is faster than 1, which has unknown performance".
Amazon EC2 M9g Instances
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Re: Amazon EC2 M9g Instances
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
AWS has plenty of AI specific offerings for EC2. The P, G and Trn families hit a wide range of AI use cases. Why wouldn't they also offer a general purpose one for typical compute?
Plus with the AI boom, making sure that general purpose compute jobs aren't competing for valuable GPUs is very worthwhile...
Where do you see GPUs in this release? This is a CPU-based instance.
Re: Amazon EC2 M9g Instances
#53No benchmarks. No FLOPs. No comparison to commodity hardware. I hate the cloud servers. "9 is faster than 8 which is faster than 7 which is faster than 6, ..., which is faster than 1, which has unknown performance".
As soon as they're publicly usable people benchmark them carefully. All currently available models have clear metrics.
Re: Amazon EC2 M9g Instances
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
AWS has plenty of AI specific offerings for EC2. The P, G and Trn families hit a wide range of AI use cases. Why wouldn't they also offer a general purpose one for typical compute?
You missed the touch of sarcasm. It's a joke, recent AWS announcements have been heavily AI-focused.
I don't really see how this is a productive comment for the article. Most of big tech focuses on AI and those typically get traction in the news. AWS specically has plenty of non-AI announcements: https://aws.amazon.com/new/
Parent comment made a low quality joke that lacked substance.
Re: Amazon EC2 M9g Instances
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
While the 5 variant isn't yet available outside of the preview, you can of course spin a 4 up and run geekbench yourself. Plenty of people have and you can find them in the GB DB. And of course most people spin up their specific workload to see how it compares. Core per core it pales compared to Apple's superlative processors, and falls behind AMD as well. But...that doesn't matter. You buy cloud resources generally…
Not true at all. Single thread CPU scores for Graviton2 are about half that of Intel, while only being about 20% cheaper at best.
Do you realize we're talking about Graviton5 now?
Re: Amazon EC2 M9g Instances
#56No benchmarks. No FLOPs. No comparison to commodity hardware. I hate the cloud servers. "9 is faster than 8 which is faster than 7 which is faster than 6, ..., which is faster than 1, which has unknown performance".
If you're interested in using them you should just bench them yourself.
Re: Amazon EC2 M9g Instances
#57Happy DEC-10 day, for those who celebrate!
Re: Amazon EC2 M9g Instances
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
Plus with the AI boom, making sure that general purpose compute jobs aren't competing for valuable GPUs is very worthwhile...
Where do you see GPUs in this release? This is a CPU-based instance.
Thats the point -- if you only ship GPU instances then every workload ties up precious GPU time.
Re: Amazon EC2 M9g Instances
#59No benchmarks. No FLOPs. No comparison to commodity hardware. I hate the cloud servers. "9 is faster than 8 which is faster than 7 which is faster than 6, ..., which is faster than 1, which has unknown performance".
You need to benchmark a new EC2 instance anyway. If it’s out of spec, burn it down and redeploy.