Re:AMD EPYC 7000 CPUs: 32 cores, 64 threads, 8 memory channe...
by rsynnott on Friday June 16, 2017 @07:39AM
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> I'd love to see a major cloud provider (AWS, Google, Azure) actively buying AMD chips and making them available for compute.
AWS used to use AMD chips in some instance types; I believe the whole m1 line used to be dual-sourced. If you got an Opteron when you launched it, you killed it and tried again, as the Xeon type was a little faster :)
AWS used to use AMD chips in some instance types; I believe the whole m1 line used to be dual-sourced. If you got an Opteron when you launched it, you killed it and tried again, as the Xeon type was a little faster :)