x4-960-16t-metal by Google Cloud Platform

A bare-metal instance delivering massive memory capacity and dedicated compute cores for large-scale in-memory enterprise workloads.

Google Cloud Platform x4-960-16t-metal is a bare-metal server instance in the x4 family, designed for memory-intensive enterprise workloads. Built on the x86_64 architecture, it features 960 dedicated vCPUs and 16,384 GB of RAM, providing a high memory-to-core ratio of 17.07 GB per vCPU. The instance does not include local storage or integrated GPUs, requiring network-attached storage for data persistence. By offering direct hardware access without virtualization overhead, this bare-metal configuration delivers high resource density and eliminates multi-node latency for massive datasets. It is qualitatively cost-efficient for consolidating large-scale workloads that demand a unified memory space. The server is optimized for massive in-memory databases, enterprise resource planning systems, and large-scale data analytics.