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Considering you don't even mention the openness of the raptor products vs. the xeon alternative, you're not the target market.
by newnewpdro 8y ago
Considering you don't even mention the openness of the raptor products vs. the xeon alternative, you're not the target market.
- dis-sys 8y agoI'd be heading to RISC-V for openness.
- yjftsjthsd-h 8y agoYou can buy riscv in a year or 2 (for desktop), or wait 5 years for it to become performance competitive. Or you can buy power9 today (or end of 2019 for a cheaper model) and get a system that already exists, has silicon in production, and already appears to be performance competitive with Intel. Mind, I'm probably waiting for whichever gets <$500 first because I'm not necessarily in a place where I can justify the money even for an open platform, but let's not pretend that there are massive benefits to both.
- newnewpdro 8y ago> Mind, I'm probably waiting for whichever gets <$500 first This is pretty much my threshold as well, but when I actually think about these numbers and put them in perspective with regards to how much I used to spend on 486/pentium desktop computers when they were modern, and adjust those numbers for inflation, it's downright absurd that I'm not willing to spend what raptorcs is asking for a modern, open platform, in 2018 dollars.
- 2sk21 8y agoThis is really remarkable "you can audit and modify any portion of the open source firmware on the Blackbird™ mainboard, all the way down to the CPU microcode."