AMD’s aggressive pricing update on the EPYC 7371

Re:AMD’s aggressive pricing update on the EPYC 7371 by gabble on Friday December 07, 2018 @08:29AM (#18627444)

When it comes to servers its even more true as you're buying the platform as well as the CPU, the CPU is important to be sure but the platform features are even more so for running the hardware at scale.

A simple example, for a long time you couldn't PXE boot a server from a 10Gb NIC while using AMD chipsets. So every AMD system needed a 1Gb NIC cabled and maintained just to build the server vs a single 10Gb NIC on an Intel platform. That scales out for hundreds of servers now you need a 1Gb fabric and the associated switches etc just to allow you to build your systems.

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Re:AMD’s aggressive pricing update on the EPYC 7371 by Hello71 on Friday December 07, 2018 @08:36AM (#18627494)

That, uh, doesn't sound right. None of your networking equipment can do auto-negotiation?

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Re:AMD’s aggressive pricing update on the EPYC 7371 by jsight on Friday December 07, 2018 @09:07AM (#18627715)

I think that he meant that the workload still required the 10Gb link, so the AMD servers ended up with two NICs and two sets of cables (a 10 Gb connection and a 1 Gb connection). This leads to higher resource requirements, as they need effectively double the # of switches.

I'm not familiar with the problem at all, that is just how I interpreted his statements.

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