Announcing FLOPx: Data Discovery for Cloud VMs
Want to know what you’re getting when you spin up a cloud VM? How many cores, threads, memory? Actual benchmark performance numbers? We’ve got your back.
How many vCPUs did that 32xlarge AWS VM have again? Did the Azure Dav7 enable SMT by default or not? That Google N4D, that was that an ARM or x86 machine again? Oh, and how well do any of them perform for my own workload?
That’s always been the key question. And it’s frustratingly difficult to answer. We’ve been helping our clients answer it for several years and occasionally we’ll publish some public benchmark data, but I figured we’d step it up a notch.
Want to see the full CPU specs of the machine, not just how many CPUs but if SMT is enabled (and if you can disable it)? lscpu output? Performance benchmark data? Pricing and performance adjusted pricing? Now you can.
We quietly put FLOPx live a week or two ago in a pretty beta state but we figured we’d gather some early feedback. This is definitely in - what the hyperscalers would call - Preview. We’re also limiting access to clients and partners (and friends of course!) for now (maybe forever?).
There’s an API to go with the UI for integration into your automated scaling mechanisms too. It’s time to take the guesswork out of HPC on the cloud.
If you’d like to take a look, give me a shout and I can enable your account for access in return for some feedback.
