weird to think this is just my friend’s desktop computer

@nay has any of that swap ever been used?

@noisytoot no lol

@nay I know someone on IRC who uses a 32-core/128-thread/512GB RAM IBM Power System LC922 as their desktop. (I want one of those but they're all too expensive and/or don't ship to the UK.)

@noisytoot excuse me, 32-core/128-thread?

@nay 4-way SMT

CC: @nay@mice.tel

the ultimate test tho: go to youtube and see how long the home screen takes to fully render

@nay POWER9 is either 4-way or 8-way SMT (with the former intended for PowerNV and the latter for PowerVM): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER9#Core. There was some discussion of this in #hellomouse on the 3rd of March if you want to read backlog.

(Also, not really relevant to it being SMT4, but it has a pre-production DD2.1 revision CPU which has broken hardware virtualization and broken hardware gzip, so they can’t give anyone VMs on it.)

@nay found a 98-core epyc server for $4,500 on gumtree but i couldnt quite afford it 😢

@nay and 256GB RAM