dkechag

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by dkechag 6mo ago
The primes one is my least favourite one indeed, I left it in just because I happened to include it in the very first version and I am thinking it just counts for 5% in the end... The regex ones are "micro" yet quite important, dk
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by dkechag 6mo ago
It came up recently in a post I did about how bad Geekbench 6 multi-core is, and some are saying they still use it for single-thread as it correlates well with SPEC. I thought I'd mention the one I built and use, which also correlates
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by dkechag 6mo ago
It came up recently in a post I did about how bad Geekbench 6 multi-core is, and some are saying they still use it for single-thread as it correlates well with SPEC. I thought I'd mention the one I built and use, which also correlates
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by dkechag 6mo ago
They warn they will reclaim. I had two accounts, one processing data for a free weather service I volunteer for, so it's not idle and has had no issues for a couple of years now. The other for personal projects, so at times it stays id
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by dkechag 6mo ago
I had a bit of a hard time when I first signed up. It turns out the problem was I had included "oracle" in my email (I give a different email on my domain to every provider), so some part of the system considered it an internal em
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by dkechag 6mo ago
I meant pretty much anything Oracle... except their free/cheap VMs :)
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by dkechag 6mo ago
The testing was from mid-September to mid-January, Turin was released on Azure end of January. They simply did not make the cut, unfortunately I could not wait forever for them, they always seem to lag behind at least half a year :( I might
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by dkechag 7mo ago
Huh, I have not been able to provision any newer CPUs after dozens of tests, certainly not Emerald Rapids. And that blog post is weird, their charts don't even have a key shown, it's like they bought a few CPUs and threw that quic
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by dkechag 7mo ago
May I suggest the one I use (I wrote it), which also correlates well with SPEC & Geekbench 5, but also runs the benchmarks on all cores if you want to so you get both max single-thread and max multi-thread: https://github.com
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by dkechag 7mo ago
Yeah, that's the main reason. Not sure why the ban, medium etc are much worse... The second reason is I've never had a slashdot submission accepted and I saw that after posting this the page suggested I share it to increase chance
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by dkechag 7mo ago
There's a table of contents near the top. Use it to jump to the performance per dollar.
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by dkechag 7mo ago
A 16-core 4565p is of course faster in max single thread speed than a 96-core that GCP is running at an economically optimal base clock. A year ago I gave a talk about optimizing Cloud cost efficiency and I did a comparison of colocation vs
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by dkechag 7mo ago
> No theory. No fluff. Just production. ChatGPT tells me "no theory, no fluff" all the time :D
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by dkechag 7mo ago
Going to the cloud can't possibly be as cheap as owning your own hardware for obvious reasons - they have to make money somehow. Well, unless you use spot instances, which uses spare nodes. In any case, you move to the cloud despite th
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by dkechag 7mo ago
I wrote the article. I would NEVER tell anyone to use Oracle, as the vendor lock in and strong-arming and pricing is ridiculous. That said, I am hosting small projects on Oracle Cloud, due to the super low cost. I can just move them wheneve
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by dkechag 7mo ago
From your post I can tell you did not read the "year-old blog post". It starts with the scaling, but goes further and explains a lot. I am a software engineer specializing in algorithms and optimization, Amdahl's law is part
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Cloud VM benchmarks 2026(devblog.ecuadors.net)
347 points by dkechag 7mo ago|159 comments
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by dkechag 7mo ago
Not sure you opened the blog post. The scaling is atrocious, even for tasks that should be extremely parallelizable. The Geekbench "Text Processing" benchmark supposedly processes 190 markdown files, and yet it tops at just 1.34x
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Does Apple‘s M5 Max Really “Destroy” a 96-Core Threadripper?(slashdot.org)
73 points by dkechag 7mo ago|59 comments
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by dkechag 1y ago
Yeah, I also get confused with references. I was annoyed from the start, when "Mojo" was announced as a Python family language. Mojolicious uses the "Mojo" namespace and is referred to as that quite often. I know Perl is
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Google Axion: A New Leader in ARM Server Performance(devblog.ecuadors.net)
3 points by dkechag 1y ago|0 comments
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by dkechag 3y ago
Focus on office productivity, tests generation of slides / graphics for presentations, app icons, article headers.
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by dkechag 3y ago
Comprehensive performance and price comparison of the Cloud VM types available across 10 of the most popular Cloud providers.
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by dkechag 4y ago
So, we went from a cost of a bit over $3k/month for infrastructure, to almost $15k/month (would be more with AWS). Yes, you have to buy the servers, yourself at extra cost, but on Google most people run instances on Haswell/S
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by dkechag 4y ago
At work we moved from AWS to GCP for pricing reasons. We are still paying loads more than before moving to the cloud, but it's hard to find good sysadmins nowadays that don't want to do everything on the cloud. For personal projec
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by dkechag 4y ago
That's cool, I recently did a value/performance comparison across multiple cloud providers and the Ampere Altra instances I tried on Tencent cloud were quite good, especially on multi-threaded performance, but only available on th