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0 pointsdragontamer9y ago0 comments

Dedicated scales in a way that cloud cannot: vertically.

Want to build a 1TB DDR4 RAM beast with 40 cores? Yeah, you can do that with dedicated.

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computerphage9y ago

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/x1/

dragontamerOP9y ago

Fair enough. I guess its time to whip out the big guns then.

https://www.supermicro.com/products/system/7U/7088/SYS-7088B...

1. Eight socket R1 (LGA 2011) supports Intel® Xeon® processor E7-8800 v4/v3 family (up to 24-Core)

2. Up to 24TB in 192 DDR4 DIMM slots

That's 192 cores / 384 threads with 24TB of DDR4 RAM

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The amount that you can vertically scale with physical servers is far above and beyond what is offered by cloud services. Although I'm impressed that Amazon is now at the 2TB DDR4 RAM level.

dgemm9y ago

Scaling vertically only buys you time until you are forced to scale horizontally.

That and "one huge server" is rarely the best design decision.

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paulddraper9y ago

Not what the parent asked for; that's 60 cores (120 threads).

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computerphage9y ago

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/x1/

dragontamerOP9y ago

Fair enough. I guess its time to whip out the big guns then.

https://www.supermicro.com/products/system/7U/7088/SYS-7088B...

1. Eight socket R1 (LGA 2011) supports Intel® Xeon® processor E7-8800 v4/v3 family (up to 24-Core)

2. Up to 24TB in 192 DDR4 DIMM slots

That's 192 cores / 384 threads with 24TB of DDR4 RAM

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The amount that you can vertically scale with physical servers is far above and beyond what is offered by cloud services. Although I'm impressed that Amazon is now at the 2TB DDR4 RAM level.

dgemm9y ago

Scaling vertically only buys you time until you are forced to scale horizontally.

That and "one huge server" is rarely the best design decision.

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paulddraper9y ago

Not what the parent asked for; that's 60 cores (120 threads).

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