I think Naples is a very exciting development, because:
- 1S/2S is obviously where the pie is. Few servers are 4S.
- 8 DDR4 channels per socket is twice the memory bandwidth of 2011, and still more than LGA-36712312whateverthenumberwas
- First x86 server platform with SHA1/2 acceleration
- 128 PCIe lanes in a 1S system is unprecedented
All in all Naples seems like a very interesting platform for throughput-intensive applications. Overall it seems that Sun with it's Niagara-approach (massive number of threads, lots of I/O on-chip) was just a few years too early (and likely a few thousands / system to expensive ;)
- 1S/2S is obviously where the pie is. Few servers are 4S.
- 8 DDR4 channels per socket is twice the memory bandwidth of 2011, and still more than LGA-36712312whateverthenumberwas
- First x86 server platform with SHA1/2 acceleration
- 128 PCIe lanes in a 1S system is unprecedented
All in all Naples seems like a very interesting platform for throughput-intensive applications. Overall it seems that Sun with it's Niagara-approach (massive number of threads, lots of I/O on-chip) was just a few years too early (and likely a few thousands / system to expensive ;)