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Re:HP Updates Z8 Workstations: Up to 56 Cores, 3 TB RAM, 9 P... by closeparen on Sunday September 17, 2017 @12:48AM (#15268280)
Do you need it to be local for GUIs, or for confidentiality reasons, or it's just cheaper? I assumed most people needing beefy VM hosts would remotely access servers in datacenters (whether cloud or company-owned).
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Re:HP Updates Z8 Workstations: Up to 56 Cores, 3 TB RAM, 9 P... by ddorian43 on Sunday September 17, 2017 @02:41AM (#15268518)
Probably for cheaper and latency.
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Re:HP Updates Z8 Workstations: Up to 56 Cores, 3 TB RAM, 9 P... by patcheudor on Sunday September 17, 2017 @09:07AM (#15269422)
Latency, speed, and not wanting to impact people over the wider WAN on reviews which may generate large amounts of traffic.
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