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erikk@chaos.social replied 16 Aug 2024 16:51 +0000
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@benjojo https://buy.hpe.com/us/en/compute/mission-critical-x86-servers/compute-scale-up-servers/compute-scale-up-servers/hpe-compute-scale-up-server-3200/p/1014774076 those boxes go up to 32 Sockets (or 16 for 4th gen). The limiting factor on the 8S is only the cache coherency and snooping, but intel does offer the specs so you can build / design your own custom asics to offload this. A bit like NVlink switches.

erikk@chaos.social replied 16 Aug 2024 17:00 +0000
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@kouett @benjojo @feuerrot @manawyrm If you want large scale memory footprints for in memory databases going this big is often the only option. @work we have a few usecases for this but could lukly solve it with just a shit ton of SSDs as swap.

These boxes are mostly a direct competitor for Power based scale-up systems used for SAP and related large scale databases with the uptime requirments. And having only one box to manage is often espeically in the older style enterprise a big plus

erikk@chaos.social replied 16 Aug 2024 17:06 +0000
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@manawyrm @kouett @benjojo @feuerrot fixing you application is often not really possible or rally expensive to do, or just not yet a solved problem. Often then just trowing money at boxes like this is the cheapest solution, and the failure modes of these boxes are way more predictible then large scale distributed systems.

Like most large scale destributed fail just as often, if you see the failure rates most large GPU clusters are dealing with....