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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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