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by hishnash 4y ago
I would assume all linux GPU drivers would need to be adapted at least a little to support the larger page size (most linux AARCH64 kernel level code is writing assuming 4kb pages).
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by hishnash 5y ago
If apple were found to be in violation of Patent misuses the result would not be that apple is forced to open up the internals of how their products work but rather that patens apple has would be make null and void and others could copy the
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by hishnash 5y ago
The big issue with this is apple does not own all of the IP in a any of their hardware, much of it is a mixture of licenses from many vendors some of it owned by apple much of it just licensed. Apples licenses for these will include very st
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by hishnash 5y ago
As described in the article by not having fixed function units apple can put more regular floating point math units. These units can be used in many, for example when doing compute tasks or when doing 3d tasks that do not make use of those
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by hishnash 5y ago
Why should they support vulkan? what does apple get out of that apart from less well optimised compute and shader code, using more battery and producing more heat for the same output. (the reason it would be less well optimised is Vulkan is
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by hishnash 9y ago
What I hope they do is use many instances of the system trained with slightly different sets of training data, otherwise, you just need to learn how to trick one version (and it will be possible) and you can trick them all. When attacking h
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by hishnash 9y ago
you could make indirect money by doing things like investing in some markets/betting on them to fail.
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by hishnash 9y ago
I would love to see the message log between MS Apple and Intel on this.
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by hishnash 9y ago
AMD have released patches (to reduce the near-zero risk of exploit to 0 risk) and they are not having any instability issues! so yes go with AMD for server, Epyic is now finally available to purchase for desktop workstation Threadripper for
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by hishnash 9y ago
Reading over googles project0 page it reads as if they told AMD about the issues on 2017-06-01 why would they do this if it were meltdown only? also look at the exploit numbering: Variant 1: bounds check bypass (CVE-2017-5753) Variant 2: br
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by hishnash 9y ago
Im really wanding they had more than 6months to do these patches and they did not bother testing on a good number of systems. Its not like MS + Intel dont have enough money to buy a few 1000 testing machines and get some testers on it.
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by hishnash 9y ago
i do see a lot of people believing the Alexas system is much better but int he end alaxa is just build up on regex. that is ok-ish for simple languages like English were the words themselves dont change. but in many other languages, the wor
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by hishnash 9y ago
but a lot of this brain drain has gone to private security companies that then sell vulnerabilities to national bodies. (Like the one in Israel that sold a load of 0day exploits for the iPhone to the CIA)
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by hishnash 9y ago
intel want to be able to operate all around the world and not be forbidden form non US markets if it is seen that they directly pass an exploit to the US gov so that US gov can use it to exploit into other nations systems then those other n
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by hishnash 9y ago
It's not about moral its about sales, if Intel were to start to tell the US gov directly about security loopholes in products they were still selling to other nations those nations would blacklist intel for life. Just as the US would b
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by hishnash 9y ago
Yes through you may have left out the UK (with GCHQ) who do most of the spying for the NSA within the US, so as to ensure the NSA doesn't break any rules as they are permitted to take data from another nations department but have restr
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by hishnash 9y ago
> Enforce federation by splitting the middle "we actually host users and their walls and their data" company along state lines and international borders, so that they are more beholden to local authorities and jurisdictions. th
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by hishnash 9y ago
The issue I see with adding gov level regulation to Facebook (or any other media) is it very quickly becomes a tool for oppressive regimes. If Facebook builds in the tools so governments can control exactly what is posted on them then expec
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by hishnash 9y ago
IM not sure its that much of bedfellows, with this they are not sharing their IP with Intel, these GPUs are discrete chips that AMD is just selling to Intel who is then selling them alongside their CPUs on the same package. it's not li
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by hishnash 9y ago
The title is not quite true, intel will ship a package that has an AMD GPU+HBM combined with a CPU but they are not the same chip, basically, Intel is buying already fabricated GPU chips from AMD and putting them together with their CPU to
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by hishnash 9y ago
also, apple do a really good job on compilers etc to make it easier to write code and systems that jump between systems quite well. Lots of people dev on windows without using the latest tools from Microsoft this is just not how it works wi
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by hishnash 9y ago
I think that in the end this will be down the mainboard makers to get validation so possibly will not be validated on non-server style boards. But if there is demand given epic is basicly the same thing just bigger im sure they will do it.
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by hishnash 9y ago
Oh, yer will be very nice for Machine learning I can see a lot of people getting this. Also even though they did not mention it for lower end servers. Servers currently using a single Xeon. > official/validated ECC support Given all
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by hishnash 9y ago
> there was also no word on official/validated ECC support I think given all the other Zen CPUs support it i think that is a given. > 999$ (since it is two Ryzen R7) and 1499$ I think it will be more around the 999$ but the mothe
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by hishnash 9y ago
Yes, massivly deep learning is all about learning from data. With the work I have done I have seen that currently unless you buy a 2xeon server you can't get enough data through to justify haveing 4 GPUs on one machine. So commonly its
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by hishnash 9y ago
I think AMD have been really clever in how the have built the Zen system, unlike Intel these higher end CPUS are basically just multiple lower end ones put together. This means they don't need different fabrication (they just build ryz
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by hishnash 9y ago
So AMD have done something really clever, it is not 1 big Die but rather 2 smaller (ryzen7) dies linked. The issue with binding is the larger and more complex your die the more failures you have. But breaking it down to 2 smaller dies that
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by hishnash 9y ago
What is really nice about the full Zen line is they are supporting ECC memory. It always felt like Intel had removed this on lower end chips just to force users to buy a Xeon even if the did not need the rest of the Xeon features.
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by hishnash 9y ago
Gamers might the most vocal high-end PC users out there but they are not the people with the most money. The threadripper is not targeted at gamers. It is targeted at people who make money from using their machines, these people can, theref
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by hishnash 9y ago
Our customers are (I work at https://paw.cloud ) For us we are happy with django for backend since we can trust it, but when we do cool stuff with django we take a few days to right up a blog article that for us is direct market

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