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Jeff Atwood likes to tell the world about all his computer upgrades. His is bigger than yours.

by bigwally 16y ago

CamperBob 16y ago
So he's the new Jerry Pournelle, is what you're saying?
- aaronbrethorst 16y ago
  Or Ron Jeremy, or something.
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buro9 16y ago
Rubbish, mine is larger. And whilst I really don't want to engage in this kind of dick waving, since it's Jeff Atwood I will. I have a HP Z800 ( http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06a/12454-12454-296719-307907-4270224-3718645.html http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06a/12454-12454-29... ) at home with 48GB RAM currently and it's upgradeable to 192GB RAM. Of course, having hardware that you're not using is just dumb... why have such a large capex for home hardware if it's not required. I only have this beast because I worked on a project in my spare time around distributed data. For this I built 17 virtual machines with which to test my work. I calculated the cost of the opex of renting this in the cloud would exceed the cost of purchasing over the duration of the project. And because spending money on this kinda hardware is still dumb I then put it to work on a piece of software I sold to a local consulting company. The result is that at least the machine I have has been and is used, and has paid for itself a couple of times over. BTW, this computing power really helps to build Chromium in 25 minutes rather than hours that most people experience. Also... since I'm now thinking of the Blackbird ground speed check story ( http://groups.google.com/group/rec.aviation.stories/browse_thread/thread/b9e23a24a784a26a http://groups.google.com/group/rec.aviation.stories/browse_t... ), someone else has got to step forward and obliterate my home machine with some more impressive dick waving.
- ximeng 16y ago
  What's the bottleneck on the Chromium build on your machine?
  - buro9 16y ago
    The way Visual Studio builds (it's a Windows machine at the moment) and CPU. It pegs a couple of cores but the others have relatively low load. I've followed the optimisation advice ( http://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/build-instructions-windows#TOC-Accelerating-the-build http://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/build-instruction... ) but can't manage to get it below 25 minutes. The bottleneck certainly isn't disk or RAM.
    - kenjackson 16y ago
      Why does it only peg a couple of cores? I suspect Chromium is a pretty substantial build.

Jeff Atwood likes to tell the world about all his computer upgrades. His is bigger than yours.

CamperBob 16y ago

So he's the new Jerry Pournelle, is what you're saying?

aaronbrethorst 16y ago
Or Ron Jeremy, or something.

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buro9 16y ago

Rubbish, mine is larger. And whilst I really don't want to engage in this kind of dick waving, since it's Jeff Atwood I will. I have a HP Z800 ( http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06a/12454-12454-296719-307907-4270224-3718645.html http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06a/12454-12454-29... ) at home with 48GB RAM currently and it's upgradeable to 192GB RAM. Of course, having hardware that you're not using is just dumb... why have such a large capex for home hardware if it's not required. I only have this beast because I worked on a project in my spare time around distributed data. For this I built 17 virtual machines with which to test my work. I calculated the cost of the opex of renting this in the cloud would exceed the cost of purchasing over the duration of the project. And because spending money on this kinda hardware is still dumb I then put it to work on a piece of software I sold to a local consulting company. The result is that at least the machine I have has been and is used, and has paid for itself a couple of times over. BTW, this computing power really helps to build Chromium in 25 minutes rather than hours that most people experience. Also... since I'm now thinking of the Blackbird ground speed check story ( http://groups.google.com/group/rec.aviation.stories/browse_thread/thread/b9e23a24a784a26a http://groups.google.com/group/rec.aviation.stories/browse_t... ), someone else has got to step forward and obliterate my home machine with some more impressive dick waving.

ximeng 16y ago
What's the bottleneck on the Chromium build on your machine?
- buro9 16y ago
  The way Visual Studio builds (it's a Windows machine at the moment) and CPU. It pegs a couple of cores but the others have relatively low load. I've followed the optimisation advice ( http://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/build-instructions-windows#TOC-Accelerating-the-build http://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/build-instruction... ) but can't manage to get it below 25 minutes. The bottleneck certainly isn't disk or RAM.
  - kenjackson 16y ago
    Why does it only peg a couple of cores? I suspect Chromium is a pretty substantial build.