Oracle intros Arm-powered cloud, includes on-prem option for big spenders
Ampere’s Altra gets the gig at a cent-per CPU hour, with managed K8s for starters, managed MySQL coming soon Share
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Oracle has made good on its promise to fire up an Arm-powered cloud by revealing it will offer Ampere s 80-core Altra processors for one US cent per hour per core.
Big Red will offer a single instance type – the A1 – but will offer it as virtual machines scaling up to 80 CPU cores or bare-metal instances running 160 cores. The silicon can be cranked to 3GHz. RAM will cost 0.0015 per GB per hour. VMs can use between one and 64GB of RAM, while a bare metal box can scale to 1TB of memory.
Ampere Will Launch 128-Core ARM CPUs by the End of 2021
Ampere Will Launch 128-Core ARM CPUs by the End of 2021 By Joel Hruska on May 20, 2021 at 7:55 am
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Ampere has announced an upcoming 7nm variant of its existing Altra architecture that will scale the CPU up to 128 cores, with the new CPU shipping later in 2021. Additionally, the company will transition to its own custom CPU architecture rather than continuing to tap ARM’s Neoverse line of products.
ServeTheHome wrote an excellent review of Ampere’s current 80-core Q80-33 back in December, if you’re looking for more information on how the company’s current chips compare against what’s on tap from Intel and AMD. The Altra doesn’t support SMT, so the CPU offers up to 80 cores currently and will soon scale up to 128. Performance from dual Q80-33 CPUs (160C/160T) often scaled well against dual Epyc 7742 CPUs (128C/256T
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