AMD server CPU 2018 Leaked: 7nm Starship With 48 Cores.

[Leo]

It looks like AMD is really going to provide some powerful servers from year to year. This Starship AMD should have 2 chips for a total of 96 cores. Stockfish can supposedly handle 128 cores so the more cores AMD makes the better. Intel has a 128 core server for $40,000 that in my opinion is outdated already. Especially at that price.

[Sean Evans]

Do you have a link?

[CheckersGuy]

https://www.overclock3d.net/news/cpu_ma ... ies_cpus/1

Which basically shows amd`s roadmap

[MikeB]

It looks like AMD is really going to provide some powerful servers from year to year. This Starship AMD should have 2 chips for a total of 96 cores. Stockfish can supposedly handle 128 cores so the more cores AMD makes the better. Intel has a 128 core server for $40,000 that in my opinion is outdated already. Especially at that price.

Stockfish is now designed to handle 512 cores and it was tested with 256 cores.

https://github.com/official-stockfish/S ... e2ac132396

I see systems available online with 44 cores for around $5K-$6k.

[mjlef]

It looks like AMD is really going to provide some powerful servers from year to year. This Starship AMD should have 2 chips for a total of 96 cores. Stockfish can supposedly handle 128 cores so the more cores AMD makes the better. Intel has a 128 core server for $40,000 that in my opinion is outdated already. Especially at that price.

Stockfish is now designed to handle 512 cores and it was tested with 256 cores.

https://github.com/official-stockfish/S ... e2ac132396

I see systems available online with 44 cores for around $5K-$6k.

Hopefully as these systems become more affordable, we will find more useful ways to use all these threads. Right now, testing I have seen for Komodo 10.4 and Stockfish 8 show them gaining only about 8-9 elo when going from 16 to 32 cores. I am sure we can find better ways to use them given time:

http://www.fastgm.de/schach/SMP-scaling.pdf

[Leo]

It looks like AMD is really going to provide some powerful servers from year to year. This Starship AMD should have 2 chips for a total of 96 cores. Stockfish can supposedly handle 128 cores so the more cores AMD makes the better. Intel has a 128 core server for $40,000 that in my opinion is outdated already. Especially at that price.

Stockfish is now designed to handle 512 cores and it was tested with 256 cores.

https://github.com/official-stockfish/S ... e2ac132396

I was wondering if the new Xeon Phi 7290 would be good for chess. Maybe it is.

[Leo]

Stockfish is now designed to handle 512 cores and it was tested with 256 cores.

https://github.com/official-stockfish/S ... e2ac132396

On further review it looks like Stockfish on the Xeon Phi was using 72 real cores and 288 threads.
"a single Xeon Phi can present itself as a single numa node with up to 288 threads (4 threads per hardware core).
Tested to work as expected with a Xeon Phi CPU 7230 up to 256 threads."

Here is an online price for it: Product Highlights Xeon Phi 7290 1.5 GHz Processor
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