You Can Load Up On Cheap Cores With Updated Milan Epycs
TheNextPlatform, Thursday, November 9,2023
There are two ways that CPU makers can deliver more bang for the buck, and those running distributed computing workloads can go either way - or somewhere in between - as they build out their server clusters.
The first is to push the process technology and architecture envelope to get a lot more performance into a given CPU socket. With the right kind of pricing, the performance rises faster than the cost generation to generation, and therefore the cost per unit of compute comes down and everyone is happy with better bang for the buck. Or, a CPU maker and its system builder customers can hang back, knowing that they will manage a fleet of similar machines, perhaps over six or seven years, and find a way to keep the performance per core about the same and ride each generation down lower and lower into the SKU stacks to get consistent performance at an ever-decreasing cost and therefore improve the bang for the buck that way.