I don't know if you followed the release of the last generation of CPUs. AMD's latest Genoa CPU (AMD EPYC™ 9965) can run 768 threads. It has 192 cores per socket and 2 threads per core, with 2 sockets. Imagine adding 10 TB of RAM to such a beast! Of course, everyone will think of how useful it will be for virtualization. As a database person, I'd rather ask myself what Postgres could do with so many resources. I love simplicity in architecture. But I often meet customers with huge resource needs. With average hosts nowadays, the best answer for them is sometimes multi-parallel processing (MPP)
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