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64 lanes would be good for something like 4-6 GPUs @ 8 lanes per, and some high speed storage/networking?

Anxiously awaiting Intel's "I am not left handed either" response.

Yeah, depending on the configuration it would maybe even be enough for 7 GPU's with 8x PCIe 3.0 (60 of the 64 are feeding PCIe and M.2 slots, 4 go to the chipset). Seems like it will be a nice CPU to use for machine learning.

Other sites also report that it will support 2 TByte of RAM like the single socket Naples/Epyc, but LRDIMM and official/validated ECC support was not mentioned in the stream.

Oh, yer will be very nice for Machine learning I can see a lot of people getting this.

Also even though they did not mention it for lower end servers. Servers currently using a single Xeon.

> official/validated ECC support

Given all the other Zen cpus have this i think it will, after all it is just 2 ryzen CPUs with a load of PCI!

Intel already supports a significant number of PCIe 3.0 lanes with their Xeon E5 chips. If I recall supermicro sells a dual socket Xeon board with 10, 8xPCIe 3.0 sockets.

But Threadripper compares to Intels i9 series. Xeons competition is Naples/Epyc, which has 128 PCIe lanes in a single socket.

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