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What changedModal plans to move its Sandboxes product from x86 servers to Nvidia’s Arm-based Vera CPU. The company says this will be its first move away from x86 chips, the architecture used by Intel and AMD.
That is more than a processor swap: Modal says it will need to change its infrastructure and the system it uses to build software images. The report does not give a date for Vera-powered Sandboxes to reach customers, so the migration is a plan, not a completed rollout.
Modal’s own benchmark used 50 coding tasks, including compiling software and searching files. It said Vera was often faster than Intel, AMD and Amazon chips when tasks ran one at a time, though not always by much; the advantage grew when the server was packed with containers. Modal attributed the result to Vera’s high memory bandwidth. The tests have not been independently checked, according to The Next Web.
Sources and evidence- Modal says Nvidia’s Vera CPU doubles throughput for its AI sandboxes – The Next Web: Modal plans to move its Sandboxes product to Nvidia’s Arm-based Vera CPU, marking its first move away from x86; it says the switch requires infrastructure and software-image changes and reports better results under densely packed container workloads in its own, unchecked tests.
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