Unexpected benefit with Ryzen – reducing power for build server

Re:Unexpected benefit with Ryzen – reducing power for build ... by BeeOnRope on Monday September 03, 2018 @12:34PM (#17903472)

Packet.net offers it:

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Re:Unexpected benefit with Ryzen – reducing power for build ... by afandian on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @05:03AM (#17907638)

Do you have experience with packet.net ? There's virtually no discussion on HN, which I find surprising.

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Re:Unexpected benefit with Ryzen – reducing power for build ... by ddorian43 on Monday September 03, 2018 @12:41PM (#17903518)

Please see other comments. It's EPYC and not RYZEN. 2.0 Ghz base clock speed is not nice for single-thread.

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Re:Unexpected benefit with Ryzen – reducing power for build ... by dman on Monday September 03, 2018 @12:53PM (#17903586)

For compilation it is a beast. Built a dual 7551 Epyc workstation for myself recently, it builds llvm in ~160 seconds from scratch. https://openbenchmarking.org/result/1809030-AR-DUAL7551867

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Re:Unexpected benefit with Ryzen – reducing power for build ... by morsma on Monday September 03, 2018 @11:02PM (#17906299)

God damn that's a beast!

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Re:Unexpected benefit with Ryzen – reducing power for build ... by paxswill on Monday September 03, 2018 @01:14PM (#17903721)

Epyc is the name for the server chips. Both Ryzen and Epyc are based on the same microarchitecture.

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Re:Unexpected benefit with Ryzen – reducing power for build ... by ddorian43 on Monday September 03, 2018 @01:25PM (#17903784)

Both based on Zen. Still I wanted the high-clock-core and not the hundred-slow-cores.

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Re:Unexpected benefit with Ryzen – reducing power for build ... by AstralStorm on Monday September 03, 2018 @02:03PM (#17904004)

In that case, Threadripper is the core that is inbetween.

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