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from the natural-beauty-in-clouds-and-skylakes dept.
https://www.hpcwire.com/2017/02/27/google-gets-first-dibs-new-skylake-chips/
As part of an ongoing effort to differentiate its public cloud services, Google made good this week on its intention to bring custom Xeon Skylake chips from Intel Corp. to its Google Compute Engine. The cloud provider is the first to offer the next-gen Xeons, and is getting access ahead of traditional server-makers like Dell and HPE.
Google announced plans to incorporate the next-generation Intel server chips into its public could last November. On Friday (Feb. 24), Urs Hölzle, Google's senior vice president for cloud infrastructure, said the Skylake upgrade would deliver a significant performance boost for demanding applications and workloads ranging from genomic research to machine learning.
The cloud vendor noted that Skylake includes Intel Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX-512) that target workloads such as data analytics, engineering simulations and scientific modeling. When compared to previous generations, the Skylake extensions are touted as doubling floating-point performance "for the heaviest calculations," Hölzle noted in a blog post.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 28 2017, @06:07PM (2 children)
Your old machine already had enough juice to play your porn collection.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday February 28 2017, @09:41PM (1 child)
It is safer to use a VM rather than the bare thing.
Especially if the VM can easily be reset back to it's initial hard drive state for each session.
Fact: We get heavier as we age due to more information in our heads. When no more will fit it accumulates as fat.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 01 2017, @12:30AM
When it comes to video or audio, I can really detect a difference when it's not touching the bare metal. I don't like VMs either.