Myths and Urban Legends About Dual-Socket Servers
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#3This article reads like an AMD advertisement for their EPYC processor line.
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#4This article reads like an AMD advertisement for their EPYC processor line.
It does but it also seems like AMD is saying just buy one CPU, which is weird because you’d think they would want you to buy two to double the profit.
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#5This article reads like an AMD advertisement for their EPYC processor line.
I think that's because it is.
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#6This article reads like an AMD advertisement for their EPYC processor line.
I think that's because it is.
True, but it reminds us that advertising can be educational, technical, and straightforward instead of manipulative, emotional, and focus-grouped.
There's nothing wrong per se with writing an article about your awesome product and why everyone should use it
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#7My understanding is that one factor pushing hyperscalers towards dual-socket was the cost of the network fabric - for the longest time, having two CPU sockets per NIC / per leaf switch port was the overall system price/performance sweet spot for many workloads. More sockets required more expensive CPUs, while single-socket servers need twice as many NICs and twice as many top-of-rack switchports.
With newer/faster ethernet standards you still need twice as many NICs but you can often split the lanes coming out of a switch chip and use a Y cable.
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#8If price didn't matter, what would be the best performing CPU available today? With lots of PCIe lanes and high single-thread performance?
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#9This article reads like an AMD advertisement for their EPYC processor line.
It’s on amd.com
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#10If price didn't matter, what would be the best performing CPU available today? With lots of PCIe lanes and high single-thread performance?
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