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		Jdam on Oct 6, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Compute Engine machine types with up to 96 vCPUs a... But only Haswell, where GCP offers Skylake

dom0 on Oct 6, 2017 | [–]

So -80 % memory for 0-5 % more compute throughput?

p0rkbelly on Oct 6, 2017 | | [–]

...but curious to see the performance gain on SAP (or similar) workloads with a new CPU architecture. RAM is the bottleneck typically.

boulos on Oct 6, 2017 | [–]

I think their latest instances were 4 socket Broadwell.

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.

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