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> WA ran dual xeon 2690 servers before the move to FB infra; facebook had better economics with smaller single Xeon D nodes; I dunno what makes sense today, maybe a single socket Epyc?

that cpu is 8c/16t [1] ... having two of them in a system would mean 16c/32t.

AMD recently launched a 192c/384t monster cpu [2], and having two of them would mean having 384c/768t.

So most likely a 100 nodes-clusters today, powered by those amd cpus would give you the same core count of a 1200-node cluster at the time.

references:

[1]: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/64596/i...

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-NbCPEgP1A




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