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Re:IBM Adds POWER9 AIO, Pushes for an Open Memory-Agnostic I... by baybal2 on Monday November 04, 2019 @01:59PM (#21445075)
Back in 2013, Intel 8920 did cost $750 wholesale, and similar Broadcom card a little bit cheaper.

Looks a lot now, but back then you didn't have server CPUs with gazillion cores on the cheap.

It was also about getting more bandwidth to a single server. 20Gb/s was a practical limit per mainstream server, but with accelerators you could've multiplied it many times more than the fastest CPU on the market.

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Re:IBM Adds POWER9 AIO, Pushes for an Open Memory-Agnostic I... by snark42 on Monday November 04, 2019 @02:20PM (#21445329)
> Looks a lot now, but back then you didn't have server CPUs with gazillion cores on the cheap.

You also didn't have the AES instruction set to improve the SSL performance.

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