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Re:Compute Engine machine types with up to 96 vCPUs and 624G... by kevin42 on Friday October 06, 2017 @10:36AM (#15417078)
I used a GCE to test some image processing software I wrote a while ago (it runs on a very large dataset). I configured a 64 core machine with 128gb of memory. It ran perfectly, although it cost about $200 to run the test for a day.

Sure, it wasn't the highest performance per CPU, but I didn't have to buy the bare metal, I can scale up the number of cores if need be, and I can fire one up whenever I want one.

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Re:Compute Engine machine types with up to 96 vCPUs and 624G... by qaq on Friday October 06, 2017 @10:53AM (#15417227)
You do realize that it was not actually a 64 core machine?
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Re:Compute Engine machine types with up to 96 vCPUs and 624G... by mehrdada on Friday October 06, 2017 @11:19AM (#15417446)
I wonder why you were downvoted. A 64 core machine would have 128 vCPUs
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Re:Compute Engine machine types with up to 96 vCPUs and 624G... by vonmoltke on Friday October 06, 2017 @12:21PM (#15417994)
Not necessarily. Depends on the CPU architecture and whether hardware threading is enabled.
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Re:Compute Engine machine types with up to 96 vCPUs and 624G... by _wmd on Friday October 06, 2017 @12:27PM (#15418045)
In the context of GCE they're documented specifically as a single hyperthread
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Re:Compute Engine machine types with up to 96 vCPUs and 624G... by dx034 on Monday October 09, 2017 @06:57AM (#15432822)
For the price of 2-3 days you should be able to get a dedicated OVH server for a month. The 64 GCP cores are 32 real cores, so monthly rent of $600 should get you there.
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