Comments on: Google Follows Suit With Microsoft On Ampere Arm Instances https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/07/15/google-follows-suit-with-microsoft-on-ampere-arm-instances/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Tue, 26 Jul 2022 01:00:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Timothy Prickett Morgan https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/07/15/google-follows-suit-with-microsoft-on-ampere-arm-instances/#comment-194833 Tue, 26 Jul 2022 01:00:05 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=140906#comment-194833 In reply to Yousif.

Yup. And Oracle owns a stake in Ampere Computing, too.

]]> By: Yousif https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/07/15/google-follows-suit-with-microsoft-on-ampere-arm-instances/#comment-194353 Sun, 17 Jul 2022 18:19:26 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=140906#comment-194353 Oracle were the first to deploy ARM-Based, Ampere servers.

]]> By: Jas https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/07/15/google-follows-suit-with-microsoft-on-ampere-arm-instances/#comment-194222 Fri, 15 Jul 2022 22:57:39 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=140906#comment-194222 How interesting! Only one little question: no doubt that Google and Microsoft priced their Altra instances strategically against Graviton. However graviton has been developed in-house over a number of years which means it may have a significant lower cost structure than Altra purchased by G and M. Without seeing real numbers, I wonder G&M as well as Oracle baidu etc will be able to make much money from Altra instances? Or they have to be there, because some customers or applications request them.

]]> By: Eric Olson https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/07/15/google-follows-suit-with-microsoft-on-ampere-arm-instances/#comment-194217 Fri, 15 Jul 2022 22:23:33 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=140906#comment-194217 SpecInt depends on memory latency and bandwidth as do real applications which are also affected by the speed of storage. It is further possible, due to contention between neighbouring VMs and NUMA effects, that not all identically-provisioned instances perform the same from any particular cloud provider.

It would be interesting to compare the consistency in real measured performance of identically provisioned VMs within a single cloud provider. I wonder whether any pattern would appear after about 100 samples per type per cloud.

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