> On Wed, 16 Jun 2021 13:15:40 -0400, you wrote: > >>The answer given, and I'm >>not making this up, is that AMD listens to their users and gives the >>users what they want, and right now they're not hearing any demand for >>AVX512. >> >>Personally, I call BS on that one. I can't imagine anyone in the HPC >>community saying "we'd like processors that offer only 1/2 the floating >>point performance of Intel processors". > > I suspect that is marketing speak, which roughly translates to not > that no one has asked for it, but rather requests haven't reached a > threshold where the requests are viewed as significant enough. >
Exactly, or "Right now cloud based servers are the biggest market. These customers need as many cores/threads as possible on die with "adequate" memory bandwidth. Oh, and they buy them by the boatload. What did you say you do again?" -- Doug _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit https://beowulf.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
