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Re: Image comments for Skatergirl
Posted by: pulse
Date: 17/05/2020 11:58AM
In x86 space as an individual server it's up there - unless you get into GPU powered "AI" systems or quad CPU style boxes. But individual node "hosting" style systems are pretty dead these days.
In terms of rackable equipment; this stuff is nowhere near the top.
For Unix systems, the stuff I work on is.. significantly more powerful than this stuff. The average box I run at work has 8TB RAM and 2048 x 5Ghz CPU threads (SPARC M8-8).. a couple of hundred of them (basically massive database clusters). But we also do all the "big data" analytics stuff.. multi-GPU 2/4RU multi node supercomputers basically, a couple of hundred in a pool.
Basically it becomes a question of "how big is your wallet?". You can design a system with as much compute as you want. But yes, individual node x86 stuff, right now it doesn't get a lot more powerful.
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