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z3-highmem-44-highlssd by Google Cloud Platform

z3-highmem-44-highlssd is a 44 vCPUs, 352 GB RAM, 6 Local SSDs server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 44 vCPUs, 352 GiB of memory and 19.3 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.6335 USD per hour.
44 vCPU
352 GiB Memory
19.3 TB Storage
Spare SCore
36514
(All-cores)
1623
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
1742012
Name
z3-highmem-44-highlssd
Description
44 vCPUs, 352 GB RAM, 6 Local SSDs
Family
z3
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
29
Status
active
Observed At
2026-07-27T15:33:48.813522

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.6335 USD/h 4.5274 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
1.7645 USD/h 4.5274 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
1.7645 USD/h 4.5274 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
1.7645 USD/h 4.5274 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.7356 USD/h 4.7085 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.6545 USD/h 4.7538 USD/h
Columbus (US) / us-east5
2.2959 USD/h 5.0992 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
1.5829 USD/h 5.1612 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.7091 USD/h 5.3423 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
1.2125 USD/h 5.3423 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
1.2682 USD/h 5.5855 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.7523 USD/h 5.6593 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
1.1637 USD/h 5.8141 USD/h
Berlin (DE) / europe-west10
0.9253 USD/h 5.9309 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
1.9932 USD/h 5.9309 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
1.147 USD/h 5.9312 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
44
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
22
CPU Speed
2.7 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8481C
CPU L1D Cache
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
1 MiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
704 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
44 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
105 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
105 MiB
CPU Flags
fpu, vme, de, pse, tsc, msr, pae, mce, cx8, apic, sep, mtrr, pge, mca, cmov, pat, pse36, clflush, mmx, fxsr, sse, sse2, ss, ht, syscall, nx, pdpe1gb, rdtscp, lm, constant_tsc, rep_good, nopl, xtopology, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, tsc_known_freq, pni, pclmulqdq, vmx, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, ssbd, ibrs, ibpb, stibp, ibrs_enhanced, tpr_shadow, flexpriority, ept, vpid, ept_ad, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, avx512ifma, clflushopt, clwb, avx512cd, sha_ni, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, avx_vnni, avx512_bf16, arat, vnmi, avx512vbmi, umip, avx512_vbmi2, gfni, vaes, vpclmulqdq, avx512_vnni, avx512_bitalg, avx512_vpopcntdq, la57, rdpid, cldemote, movdiri, movdir64b, fsrm, md_clear, serialize, tsxldtrk, amx_bf16, avx512_fp16, amx_tile, amx_int8, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
22.5
Scalability
102.27

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
352 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
352 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    19326 GB
    Storage Type
    nvme ssd
    Storages
    • 3221 GB nvme ssd
    • 3221 GB nvme ssd
    • 3221 GB nvme ssd
    • 3221 GB nvme ssd
    • 3221 GB nvme ssd
    • 3221 GB nvme ssd
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    A memory-optimized virtual machine featuring massive local NVMe SSD storage and dedicated Intel Xeon processors for data-intensive enterprise workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    Google Cloud Platform z3-highmem-44-highlssd is a memory-optimized and storage-heavy virtual machine featuring 44 vCPUs and 352 GB of RAM, powered by an Intel Xeon 8481C processor at 2.7 GHz. It integrates 19,326 GB of local NVMe SSD storage across six drives, with no GPU hardware. Benchmarks indicate strong performance in multi-threaded bzip3 decompression (231.48 GB/sec), CPU encryption, and image processing, while standard database and memory bandwidth tests perform in the average tier. A notable tradeoff is its poor text generation speed of 2.36 tokens/sec on large 70B LLM models, highlighting its limitations for heavy AI inference. This instance is best suited for memory-intensive databases, high-throughput storage applications, and data-processing workloads that benefit from high resource density and massive local storage.

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    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    2.26Score
    Precomputed compound score for Cache Intensive workloads. A weighted average (geometric mean) of benchmark scores compared to their medians: score = ∏ (x_i / m_i)^(w_i / Σw). The score of 1.0 represents a synthetic baseline server with the median performance of each component benchmark; 0.5 means roughly half the performance; and 2.0 means twice the performance of that reference profile. Component weights: 50% Redis RPS (pipeline=1, SET), 20% Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET), 10% PassMark Memory Mark (composite), 10% Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3), 10% PassMark single-thread CPU. Rationale for component selection: In-memory key-value store workload, mixing direct Redis performance metrics with memory speed and latency benchmarks, and single-core CPU performance profiles.
    Component Score Weight Impact
    Raw Reference Normalized Target Actual
    Redis RPS (pipeline=1, SET) 6,446,748 ops/sec 1,896,415 ops/sec 3.4 50.00% 50.00% +84.40%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 32,169,921 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 2.79 20.00% 20.00% +22.80%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,190 2,411 0.909 10.00% 10.00% -0.95%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 114,549 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 1.07 10.00% 10.00% +0.68%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,408 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 1.02 10.00% 10.00% +0.20%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,702

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 15,184

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 46384
    Compression
    		 627674
    Encryption
    		 38504
    Extended Instructions
    		 42600
    Floating Point Maths
    		 124481
    Integer Maths
    		 174690
    Physics
    		 3423
    Prime Numbers
    		 244
    Single Threaded
    		 2408
    String Sorting
    		 81828

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2190
    Database Operations
    		 18226
    Memory Latency
    		 72
    Memory Read Cached
    		 22251
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 9411
    Memory Write
    		 8351

    Stress-ng Raw Scores

    Stress-ng Relative Multicore Performance

    LLM Inference Speed for Prompt Processing

    LLM Inference Speed for Text Generation

    Static Web Server

    Redis

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