Problem is that in the enterprise segment there is almost no AMD offering with the big brands so it is going to take a while to displace the Xeons. I looked at Lenovo workstations recently and their offering is 90% Intel.
Sure the software/tools could be nicer, but I've not been overly impressed with the competition. At least HTML5 has replaced the pain of ancient buggy java solutions that waste 5 minutes over a slow connections with sandbox permissions, java splash screens, and some awful client that's mostly VNC, but with a hacked up auth system.
From what I’ve seen, Supermicro is no different - they use Avocent hardware like everyone else. Everything just depends on what generation of controller they ship.
EDIT: as an example, the iDRAC on my Dell R210 II’s, the IMM on my Lenovo TD340, and iLO 3 on my HP ML10 are all the same generation of Avocent hardware with few differences. My Dell RX20’s have newer OOB modules and suck less to work with, but so does comparably new hardware from other OEM’s because they’re all made by the same damned company.
In about 5 years, maybe I'll replace the ones I have at home (admittedly, I really should just do a blade server at home -- it'd probably be less power draw!)
eg older gear that would generally be suitable for dev use can't even be updated any more. Screw that crowd. :(
They just sent my brother a $500 video card about eight months late after already replacing the whole computer that had a faulty video card. One hand doesn’t know what the other does in that corporation.
Now with Rome it gets even more wide spread. The Epyc CPUs are perfect for a Single CPU all Flash storage Server due to the 128 PCIe Lanes. Intel can't offer anything comparable at the same or similar proce point because you need to buy 2 CPUs
What impresses me most is that the transition from Epyc Naples to Epyc Rome was pretty quick and doubled the performance on a wide variety of heavy floating point codes.
This will only change if people choose what to get from the remaining 10%
I did my part, getting a x395 recently, which worked out quite well.
I’m curious if they’ve solved that problem yet
Unfortunately the realities of Moore's law (or the lack of it really) means that the perf/watt stopped doubling. So in a single generation a mid range server went from 65-95 watts to 180 watts or so. At the same time server costs approximately doubled.
Higher end chips are now over 200 watts.
The good news is that while they consume quite a bit of heat that the physical size of the socket, heat spreader, and chip have significantly increased. So you still have to dump the heat, but it's not as hard (read that as noisy) as it was cooling the smaller (with higher heat density) chips.