AMD Rome Second Generation EPYC Review: 2x 64-core Benchmarked
by Johan De Gelas on August 7, 2019 7:00 PM ESTJava Performance
Even though our testing is not the ideal case for AMD (you would probably choose 8 or even 16 back-ends), the EPYC edges out the Xeon 8176. Using 8 JVMs increases the gap from 1% to 4-5%.
The Critical-jOPS metric is a throughput metric under response time constraint.
With this number of threads active, you can get much higher Critical-jOps by significantly increasing the RAM per JVM. However, we did not want that as this would mean we can not compare with systems that can only accommodate 128 GB of RAM. Notice how badly the Intel system needs huge pages.
The benchmark data of Intel and AMD can be found below.
According to AMD, the EPYC 7742 can be up to 66% faster. However note that these kind of high scores for critical-jOPS are sometimes configured with 1 TB of RAM and more.
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MDD1963 - Friday, August 9, 2019 - link
of the '1800 servers', how many of those are virtual, just out of curiosity? ('1800 servers' is not quite as impressive if there were, for example, 10 hosts w/ 180 Windows VMs each, for example) U.S.A.F offices are still mostly Windows 10...I'd suspect the are datacenters at each base having a large Windows Server presence as well.. (But, we used Redhat onboard assorted recce aircraft for many years now....; which seems stupid in light of the fact they could easily use CentOS for free; presumably, a Senator's family members work at Redhat, and enjoy the large income from support contracts)eek2121 - Friday, August 9, 2019 - link
Employers use Windows, data centers use Linux. All the major cloud providers, including Microsoft, have reported that Linux has the highest market share.gylgamesh - Friday, August 9, 2019 - link
Could you please specify what kind of servers those are and what tasks do they perform, and also which MS Windows OS are they using? Thanks.Slickest - Thursday, August 8, 2019 - link
I work for one of the largest colleges in the nation, and 90% of our servers are Windows.69369369 - Thursday, August 8, 2019 - link
"LUL"Go back to Twitch kiddo.
azfacea - Thursday, August 8, 2019 - link
and what would u do if i dont?Oliseo - Thursday, August 8, 2019 - link
Tell your mum you're up late again and she will force you to go outside, and we all know how much your dislike having to do that.prophet001 - Monday, August 12, 2019 - link
I don't get the hate for windows server? How you gonna run a domain and active directory in linux?CaedenV - Wednesday, August 21, 2019 - link
I use to work in schools, and a few that could not afford Windows Server would run AD through some Linux application. It was not exactly full-featured, but it worked well enough for 'free' solution.deltaFx2 - Wednesday, August 7, 2019 - link
@Pancakes: Are you kidding? 1T perf is at par with Skylake. Windows licenses per core. Why would anyone buy a SKU with more cores than they need? And if they did do that, why would they not run them on a VM? Do these people also buy more racks than they need and run windows just for the fun of it?