Re:SSDs Have Become Fast, Except in the Cloud
by vel0city on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @01:22PM
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Given AWS and GCP offer multiple sizes for the same processor version with local SSDs, I don't think you have to rent the entire machine.
Search for i3en API names and you'll see:
i3en.large, 2x CPU, 1250GB SSD
i3en.xlarge, 4x CPU, 2500GB SSD
i3en.2xlarge, 8x CPU, 2x2500GB SSD
i3en.3xlarge, 12x CPU, 7500GB SSD
i3en.6xlarge, 24x CPU, 2x7500GB SSD
i3en.12xlarge, 48x CPU, 4x7500GB SSD
i3en.24xlarge, 96x CPU, 8x7500GB SSD
i3en.metal, 96x CPU, 8x7500GB SSD
So they've got servers with 96 CPUs and 8x7500GB SSDs. You can get a slice of one, or you can get the whole one. All of these are the ratio of 625GB of local SSD per CPU core.
Search for i3en API names and you'll see:
i3en.large, 2x CPU, 1250GB SSD
i3en.xlarge, 4x CPU, 2500GB SSD
i3en.2xlarge, 8x CPU, 2x2500GB SSD
i3en.3xlarge, 12x CPU, 7500GB SSD
i3en.6xlarge, 24x CPU, 2x7500GB SSD
i3en.12xlarge, 48x CPU, 4x7500GB SSD
i3en.24xlarge, 96x CPU, 8x7500GB SSD
i3en.metal, 96x CPU, 8x7500GB SSD
So they've got servers with 96 CPUs and 8x7500GB SSDs. You can get a slice of one, or you can get the whole one. All of these are the ratio of 625GB of local SSD per CPU core.
https://instances.vantage.sh/
On GCP you can get a 2-core N2 instance type and attach multiple local SSDs. I doubt they have many physical 2-core Xeons in their datacenters.