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Re:Google Cloud Platform is the first cloud provider to offe... by wlamond on Friday February 24, 2017 @05:31PM (#13728544)
Given the marketing toward HPC tasks, shouldn't hyper-threading be disabled?
Re:Google Cloud Platform is the first cloud provider to offe... by boulos on Friday February 24, 2017 @05:54PM (#13728704)
No? We make sure that pairs of vCPUs (hypertwins) stay together. If you'd like, you can offline your threads in the guest for a fairly similar outcome. Some of us regret that we sell an n1-standard-1 and the shared core machine types, but it's pretty nice to have a $5/month VM price point for those that want it. Most folks doing serious numerical computing end up using much larger VMs, and always crossing NUMA nodes (which is a much larger impact).

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (and historically focused solely on Compute Engine).

Re:Google Cloud Platform is the first cloud provider to offe... by Shakahs on Friday February 24, 2017 @09:07PM (#13729559)
I'm curious, what is there to regret about having a shared core machine type? Some people have a use for them and appreciate the cost savings.
Re:Google Cloud Platform is the first cloud provider to offe... by frozenport on Friday February 24, 2017 @06:17PM (#13728843)
Disabling hyper-threading only makes sense if you're getting messed up by the OS's scheduler.