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Yes, you can have too many CPU cores - Ampere's 192-core chips break ARM64 Linux kernel in two-socket systems, company requests higher core count support (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (6 children)

Isn't there some kind of diminishing returns on this, where it starts to make more sense to offload things to a GPU or something instead of piling on ever more CPU cores? There has to be a lot of inefficiencies in that many interconnects.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is the type of processor companies want in things like VM servers that host large numbers of VMs.

GPU processing units are really good at only specific kinds of computation. These are still all-around processors.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Yep. I would LOVE one of these chips in a kubernetes node.

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