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Re:Achieving 11M IOPS and 66 GB/S IO on a Single ThreadRippe... by 1996 on Friday January 29, 2021 @04:37PM (#25962954)
Indeed, serious people now use gamer computer parts because it's just faster!
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Re:Achieving 11M IOPS and 66 GB/S IO on a Single ThreadRippe... by greggyb on Friday January 29, 2021 @04:50PM (#25963126)
It's not "just faster".

No one's using "gamer NICs" for high speed networking. Top of the line "gaming" networking is 802.11ax or 10GbE. 2x200Gb/s NICs are available now.

Gaming parts are strictly single socket - software that can take advantage of >64 cores will need server hardware - either one of the giant Ampere ARM CPUs or a 2+ socket system.

If something must run in RAM and needs TB of RAM, well then it's not even a question of faster or slower. The capability only exists on server platforms.

Some workloads will benefit from the performance characteristics of consumer hardware.

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Re:Achieving 11M IOPS and 66 GB/S IO on a Single ThreadRippe... by mgerdts on Friday January 29, 2021 @07:46PM (#25964797)
The desktop used in TFA supports 1 TB of RAM.

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/thinkstation-p620

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Re:Achieving 11M IOPS and 66 GB/S IO on a Single ThreadRippe... by greggyb on Friday January 29, 2021 @09:20PM (#25965370)
Workstations and desktops are distinct market segments. The machine in the article uses a workstation platform. And the workstation processors available in that Lenovo machine clock slower than something like a 5950X mainstream processor. The RDIMMS you need to get to 1TB in the machine run much slower than the UDIMMS I linked above.
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