Re:RaptorCS's redemption: the POWER9 machine works
by loudmax on Thursday October 10, 2019 @12:09PM
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Incidentally, I'm pretty sure that Sir_Cmpwn meant 32 threads, not 32 cores. Raptor sells an 8-core CPU bundle, and those cores are SMT4 capable, meaning 4 threads per core. So it will appear as 32 CPUs if you run `htop` or `cat /proc/cpuinfo` in Linux.
Raptor does sell a 22-core SMT4 capable CPU, which, Yikes! that's a lot of computing power.
That Blackbird bundle seems like a beast. The Phoronix benchmarks show it outperformed by high end x86 chips though. I wonder if some of that comes down to gcc optimizations because x86 has been around longer.
Raptor does sell a 22-core SMT4 capable CPU, which, Yikes! that's a lot of computing power.
That Blackbird bundle seems like a beast. The Phoronix benchmarks show it outperformed by high end x86 chips though. I wonder if some of that comes down to gcc optimizations because x86 has been around longer.