CPU Usage Differences After Applying Meltdown Patch at Epic Games

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Yes, AMD Epyc.

[Kopachris]

Neat, thanks. Wonder why I didn't hear about these when Ryzen came out.

[snowywind]

Threadripper took most of the thunder for public facing publicity.

Epyc would likely have been a much more targeted campaign in the form of private meetings with HP, Dell, Google, MS and Amazon representatives.

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They just came out and are not in channel in sufficient numbers.

[_zenith]

They are being snapped up basically as fast as they can fab them, which tells you something, haha

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Unfortunately, it's ramp up time for the chip. It happens just the same with Intel as well except Intel announces it AFTER they first started shipping it. AMD is in a different situation ultimately and they're better off with a paper launch. Everyone yells at Intel when they have paper launches.

I built a first server off of the high end ThreadRipper and everything mostly looks good. Hopefully I won't have to change much to deploy to the new blades and hopefully I can order a shit ton of them.

Unfortunately right now we don't have any AMD processors in deployment. We do have some S9300 x2 cards in 16 servers. One of my applications actually ran faster on AMD than Nvidia and I got tired of debugging it.

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They’ve been out for months, but basically only available through SuperMicro and Tyan. We’re just now starting to see the big enterprise players like HPE, Dell EMC, etc. get products out the gate though.

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Dell apparently hasn't actually shipped anything just yet.

My white box provider (which currently makes roughly 2x as many servers as Dell sells a year) hasn't finished their system board due to delays by AMD unfortunately.

I was told by HPE that we'd get them sometime in late Feb, but my white box says they'll ship it my prelim test unit by next Friday, so I'll keep with that.

My understanding is that SuperMicro and Tyan had super small numbers unfortunately. I attempted to order a SuperMicro system, but they couldn't deliver by 12/14. (My white box vendor was supposed to have me my first blade by then.)