You can easily build or purchase a system with 128 vCPUs. Duplicating Google's custom hardware and firmware is another matter. 128 vCPUs is not large today.
Google Cloud publishes the processor families: CPU platforms
The Intel Ice Lake Xeon motherboards support multiple processor chips.
With a two-processor motherboard using the 40 core model (8380), 160 vCPUs are supported.
I am not sure what Google is using for n2d-standard-224 which supports 224 vCPUs. That might be the Ice Lake 4 processor 28-core models.
GCloud N2 machines: 128 vCPUs in 1 chip?
Currently, the only processors that support 64 cores (128 vCPUs) that I am aware of are ARM processors from Ampere. That means Google is using one or more processor chips on a multi-cpu motherboard.
If so, Intel doesn't make them generally available for sale to the public, right?
You can buy just about any processor on Amazon, for example.
If they use several chips, how do they split the cores? Also, I assume that all cores are on the same node, do they place more than 2 CPU chips on that node or do they have chips with 56 cores (which also is a lot)?
You are thinking in terms of laptop and desktop technology. Enterprise rack mounted servers typically support two or more processor chips. This has been the norm for a long time (decades).
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您可以轻松构建或购买具有 128 个 vCPU 的系统。复制谷歌的定制硬件和固件是另一回事。 128 个 vCPU 在今天来说并不算大。
Google Cloud 发布了处理器系列：CPU 平台
Intel Ice Lake Xeon 主板支持多个处理器芯片。
使用 40 核型号的双处理器主板 (8380)，支持 160 个 vCPU。
对于您的示例，Google 使用 32 核 CPU。
注：一个物理核心是两个vCPU。 链接
我不确定 Google 使用什么来实现 n2d-standard -224，支持 224 个 vCPU。那可能是 Ice Lake 4 处理器 28 核型号。
目前，据我所知，唯一支持 64 核（128 个 vCPU）的处理器是 Ampere 的 ARM 处理器。这意味着 Google 在多 CPU 主板上使用一个或多个处理器芯片。
例如，您可以在亚马逊上购买几乎任何处理器。
您正在考虑笔记本电脑和台式机技术。企业机架式服务器通常支持两个或更多处理器芯片。这已经成为很长一段时间（几十年）的常态。
You can easily build or purchase a system with 128 vCPUs. Duplicating Google's custom hardware and firmware is another matter. 128 vCPUs is not large today.
Google Cloud publishes the processor families: CPU platforms
The Intel Ice Lake Xeon motherboards support multiple processor chips.
With a two-processor motherboard using the 40 core model (8380), 160 vCPUs are supported.
For your example, Google is using 32-core CPUs.
Note: one physical core is two vCPUs. link
I am not sure what Google is using for n2d-standard-224 which supports 224 vCPUs. That might be the Ice Lake 4 processor 28-core models.
Currently, the only processors that support 64 cores (128 vCPUs) that I am aware of are ARM processors from Ampere. That means Google is using one or more processor chips on a multi-cpu motherboard.
You can buy just about any processor on Amazon, for example.
You are thinking in terms of laptop and desktop technology. Enterprise rack mounted servers typically support two or more processor chips. This has been the norm for a long time (decades).