BracketMaster

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   by BracketMaster 4y ago

   IBM also cells POWER9 workstations: https://www.ibm.com/products/power-system-s914/pricing IBM charges 11k for their 8 core POWER9 CPU alone...
2. 32.▲
   by BracketMaster 4y ago

   I have a POWER9 system actually - it has a number of shortcomings that make it not so practical as a daily driver. For one, it doesn't go to sleep and draws 27Watt at a minimum. It also has no integrated graphics which means I need an
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   Who Uses IBM POWER9?(raptorcs.com)

   4 points by BracketMaster 4y ago|6 comments
4. 34.▲
   by BracketMaster 4y ago

   A repost of a question I posted a little over two years ago. I'm wondering who actually buys IBM POWER9 systems - and does IBM actually net money off POWER9?
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   by BracketMaster 4y ago

   My other concern is that their tooling works in the browser which probably means either typescript or js. If they have simulation support, I hope it's not implemented in ts or js... I know wasm is also a thing now - so maybe they compi
6. 36.▲
   Thoughts on FluxAi(flux.ai)

   1 points by BracketMaster 4y ago|2 comments
7. 37.▲
   by BracketMaster 4y ago

   Has anybody used FluxAi? Most PCB designs strike me as not so difficult. IMO PCBs get hard when you introduce RF or high speed signaling. I wonder how flux deals with this and if they have support for simulating RF or design rules for layin
8. 38.▲
   by BracketMaster 4y ago

   Thanks - there are a number of these actually. I guess my title of "no electron alternatives" should have been "no native alternative to popular electron apps such as slack or discord" There is jitsi - but it doesn'
9. 39.▲
   by BracketMaster 4y ago

   Basically - I have a full time job, so I need to be convinced that spending another 5 - 8 hours a day on a zoom replacement over the next few months is worth the trouble - or find a way to fund myself to do this.
10. 40.▲
    No Electron Alternatives

    1 points by BracketMaster 4y ago|5 comments
11. 41.▲
    by BracketMaster 5y ago

    I'm kind of hoping some people might have some comments or answers or two cents.
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    A Rust OS with Only Rust Applications

    4 points by BracketMaster 5y ago|2 comments
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    Should Tesla Open Up Their Control Code to Public Audit?(fidelity.com)

    2 points by BracketMaster 5y ago|3 comments
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    by BracketMaster 5y ago

    While I love the trailblazing Tesla has done for EVs and smart cars, it's moments like these that make me cringe. Obviously, we don't know right now if the driver was at fault or not - but I'm a capable coder and have some ex
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    Lots of FPGAs and Server Blades

    4 points by BracketMaster 5y ago|2 comments
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    Linux Evangelist Turned Dentist, handrolls all IT infra in his dentist practice(reddit.com)

    44 points by BracketMaster 5y ago|2 comments
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    by BracketMaster 5y ago

    so this guy was a software engineer and then he became a dentist, and he decided to do everything stallman style, designing all the dental software and hardware himself on Linux from scratch. He wrote drivers for the xray machines??!!
18. 48.▲
    by BracketMaster 5y ago

    I say laser because its kinda hard to make narrow beams with traditional waveguides.
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    Laser Powered Future

    1 points by BracketMaster 5y ago|2 comments
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    by BracketMaster 5y ago

    Simulator is written internally in Nim. There isn't really a good FOSS IR for RTL sims on the market currently. I absolutely refuse to use MLIR or anything based on LLVM for that matter. LLVM takes up to 40 minutes to rebuild on my App
21. 51.▲
    by BracketMaster 5y ago

    Yosys is a very capable FOSS synthesizer and Verilator is a FOSS simulator actually used in production at ARM.
22. 52.▲
    by BracketMaster 5y ago

    Not yet - but keep an eye out here: https://github.com/chipeleven
23. 53.▲
    by BracketMaster 5y ago

    Happy to have a chat. How may I reach you?
24. 54.▲
    by BracketMaster 5y ago

    One thing people don't often bring up is how great nim is for writing DSLs. DSLs really matter in the hardware and digital design space - a space that seems to be completely devoid of innovation when it comes to tooling. A couple lang
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    by BracketMaster 5y ago

    Again - we're not going for 3070GTX performance levels here. We plan to disrupt industry by being the first production grade open source GPU implementation ever.
26. 56.▲
    by BracketMaster 5y ago

    So the initial corporate customers we talked to just want something that plays 1080p videos and is passable at 3D graphics. Currently, the GPGPU hits at around 25GFLOPS peak performance on an ARIA FPGA. We're targeting GF12nm - some ba
27. 57.▲
    by BracketMaster 5y ago

    We need somebody with GPU driver expertise as well as GPU architecture expertise. The guy we were considering going with for this summer wants to just wrap up his dissertation instead and graduate - which is totally understandable. The GP
28. 58.▲
    by BracketMaster 5y ago

    Here's our website if it helps: https://chipeleven.com Feel free to ask me any questions about what on earth we're actually doing.
29. 59.▲
    Building an Open Source GPU

    14 points by BracketMaster 5y ago|15 comments
30. 60.▲
    by BracketMaster 5y ago

    Its definitely not investor driven at all. We had a long long internal hashing out of RISC-V vs. POWER internally - and POWER won by a long shot when it came to sheer demand from potential customers interested in something other than embedd