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Would these be too pricey as hypervisors for cloud compute? It seems to me to be ideal for CPU thread intensive applications like databases, on-demand transcoding.

What are some use cases for a server like this for Google? I'd love to see these available in the IBM Cloud (SoftLayer) but I think they will be too pricey and reserved for enterprise.

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If these are cheap enough (someone said $200 a pop with bulk discounts) then cloud providers will get a big boost.

You can also logically partition these beasts into multiple real servers. Who needs a hypervisor when you can have 96 "real" servers sharing the same hardware?

Memory bandwidth would be a nightmare, not to mention every other kind of I/O.

There are some tricks for IO: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/abstracts/redp5065.htm...

Pardon my ignorance: what's the difference between using a hypervisor and running "real" servers that share hardware?

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