If intel is really going to market these type of systems, they need to be a LOT LOT more transparent on interconnect latency / memory management issues etc.
These headlines are almost always clickbait when you try to run high contention workloads on these supposedly massive systems.
What is the name of the interconnect approach being used here? That's what I want to know.
The headline is so misleading. I could wire together a ton of machines over 10mbs, and yes, I could get NUMA going on it and a high core count, but the performance would be horrendous. Maybe you could even run super NUMA over DB9 9 bit serial ports with remote memory access latency in hours?
> If the title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids."
48+ xeon core systems are easily obtained and nothing special. The fact that this system has 896 cores is the interesting part.
"Xeon cores in one PC" doesn't even make sense.