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| posted by Jean-Francois Panisset on Nov. 14, 2014, 1:30 p.m. | ||||||
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Apparently there's a new Amazon EC2 "C4" instance: And since the "c4.8xlarge" instance lists 36 "vCPUs", this would seem to indicate that this is an 18 core part with one vCPU = one physical core, no multi-threading? (if you ran 2 vCPUs on a single physical core with MT enabled, that would make the underlying part a 9 core CPU, not impossible but seems unlikely). But who really knows what shenanigans are being played under the Xen layer? It does seem like c4.8xlarge with 60GB would be a nice machine to do rendering on, but no pricing announced yet...== https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-c4-instances/ The new C4 instances are based on the Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 (code name Haswell) processor. This custom processor, designed specifically for EC2, runs at a base speed of 2.9 GHz, and can achieve clock speeds as high as 3.5 GHz with Turbo boost. == Must be nice to be large enough to be able to call up Intel and say "could you make me this particular CPU? we'll be buying so many units per quarter...". |