The quest for cores, the thirst for threads
- Dirk Broer
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#1 The quest for cores, the thirst for threads
If you think 32 cores/64 threads (Whether Xeon or EPYC) is awesome, look at the IBM Power series. A 12-core IBM Power8 will do 96 threads....
#2 Re: The quest for cores, the thirst for threads
Simply never enough cores or cash.
The best form of help from above is a sniper on the rooftop....
- Dirk Broer
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#3 Re: The quest for cores, the thirst for threads
And IBM is selling Power8 servers like the E870 that can be configured with up to 80 POWER8 cores (=640 threads!) and 8 TB of RAM.....
I guess it won't come cheap though....and is there a boinc client for the latest version of AIX? Would there be an Ubuntu variant for IBM Power architecture? Yes!