<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body><div>What is everyone's thoughts on Intel new i9 cpus as these boast significant jump in core count</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div id="composer_signature"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757" dir="auto">Sent from Samsung tablet.</div></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Kilian Cavalotti <kilian.cavalotti.work@gmail.com> </div><div>Date: 23/06/2017 05:21 (GMT+01:00) </div><div>To: beowulf <Beowulf@beowulf.org> </div><div>Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Register article on Epyc </div><div><br></div></div>Oh, and at least the higher core-count SKUs like the 32-core 7251 are<br>actually 4 8-core dies linked together with a new "Infinity Fabric"<br>interconnect, not a single 32-core die. I completely missed that. And<br>it's fine, it probably makes sense from a yield perspective, but<br>behold the intra-socket inter-die NUMA effects. And sure enough, we'll<br>need yet another layer in the node-board-socket-core-thread conceptual<br>cake.<br><br>By the way, isn't actually what Intel was criticized for, when they<br>released their first quad-core Clovertown CPUs, back in 2007? I<br>remember some PR from AMD about those fake quad-core CPUs, which<br>really were just two dual-core glued together. Funny how tides turn...<br>:)<br><br>Cheers.<br>-- <br>Kilian<br>_______________________________________________<br>Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing<br>To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf<br></body></html>