Coming Soon: AWS Graviton2 Processor for AWS

Re:Coming Soon: AWS Graviton2 Processor for AWS by tverbeure on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @08:21PM (#21709118)

How many of those precompiled binaries are performance critical? How about all?

From the software that runs for hours to compile a model, the software that calculates results, to the interactive analysis software that needs to load GBs of data.

The whole reason to run these things on a server farm is that you need large and fast machines that are better shared to make sure they get optimal use of the machine and of the license pool.

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Re:Coming Soon: AWS Graviton2 Processor for AWS by ninkendo on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @09:53PM (#21709579)

Is this the archetypal AWS customer that drives the majority of intel’s sales to AMZN? That not only has lock-in with a closed source vendor, but that vendor is not agile enough to give ARM binaries for AWS workloads? Doubtful IMO. Maybe for EDA and CAD/CAM setups, but somehow I doubt those are enough to keep Intel as we know them afloat. Intel has huge reason to fear ARM on the server.

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Re:Coming Soon: AWS Graviton2 Processor for AWS by tverbeure on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @10:46PM (#21709807)

I was thinking about server farms in general, not AWS specifically. You’re probably right that AWS-type server are more likely to skew towards software that is available in source form.

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Re:Coming Soon: AWS Graviton2 Processor for AWS by timthorn on Thursday December 05, 2019 @04:34AM (#21711057)

A commercial EDA tool was one of the use cases benchmarked in the source article.

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