A Deep Dive into AMD’s Rome Epyc Architecture

Re:A Deep Dive into AMD’s Rome Epyc Architecture by tempguy9999 on Saturday August 17, 2019 @11:59AM (#20724630)

> one for databases

as a DB guy, there's no 'one task' for DBs . The only thing I can think that is nearly characteristic of DBs I've worked on is that they're IO bound.

That's possibly true of most things except Floating point and graphics.

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Re:A Deep Dive into AMD’s Rome Epyc Architecture by snaky on Saturday August 17, 2019 @11:15PM (#20728012)

While that's true, you can achieve impressive results offloading particular parts of particular DBMS code to the specialized CPUs, https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEPEK_11.0.0...

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