The percentage increase in performance in those benchmarks is stunning. They're pushing hard on the multi-thread end and it's clearly working for a lot of modern applications that can take advantage of it.
Pair one of these Threadrippers with a pair of the fastest NVMe SSD's out there, with plenty of high performance DDR4 memory and you've got a near supercomputer from recent past in terms of performance.
Hey boulos, upvoted your response. Thanks for taking action on this. Agreed that GCP != Google consumer support.
I didn't mean for my response to be perceived as negative for GCP, was only hoping to inspire those at GCP to continue to focus on the customer experience rather than features. AWS certainly needs the competition and I've also had great experiences using Google's cloud platform.
Thanks for responding to this and offering to escalate boulos.
I certainly don't think a student just learning the ins and outs of a cloud provider's services should be able to spend 10k+ without warnings/thresholds that require configuration to exceed. It would be positive for platform adoption to make that process better.
I've used GCP in the past, including decisions on which cloud providers to use where we spent north of 1M USD/month.
Honestly Google's efforts are best focused on support issues like this and customer service rather than features to compete with AWS at the moment. A lot about GCP's setup is simpler and their network/hardware is well known to be better per dollar spent.
However, I've always found the ability to contact an AWS rep and work through a tough situation on billing/quotas to be much more convenient.
At this point in 2019 intelligence gathering and government/corporate security vulnerabilities are much more in the digital realm than physical. Wifi enabled cameras/microphones, cell phones, servers, consumer computers, usb devices, iot devices are all used to that end.
We need to hold the flame to OS vendors to handle basic security precautions. It's not like the US government doesn't have contract negotiations with them large enough to force the issue.
It's also unacceptable to have security around the most protected person on the planet be ignorant to common attack vectors and procedures.
Pair one of these Threadrippers with a pair of the fastest NVMe SSD's out there, with plenty of high performance DDR4 memory and you've got a near supercomputer from recent past in terms of performance.