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by slizard 9y ago
The new "Radeon Instinct" cards are about to be released: http://www.anandtech.com/show/10905/amd-announces-radeon-ins... The mid-range has a lot of potential as it's based on Fiji which NVIDIA ca
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by slizard 9y ago
Hard to get? For better or worse TTBOMK there are more Intel Xeon Phi machines on the TOP500 than GPU accelerated systems.
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by slizard 9y ago
These efforts are mostly going to aid further market segmentation and boosting profits; e.g. even for development you'll now need a Tesla/Quadro that costs a ton of money, the days of GTX cards that have the same GK2xx or GM2xx ch
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by slizard 9y ago
That would be one way, but what's commendable is that they went further and HIP is actually also a common thin API on top of CUDA and their own platform. They could've just stopped at converting code, but they did not -- and tha
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by slizard 9y ago
> http://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/48478/open-system Sadly, that's a very problematic, borderline BS definition. "A system that allows third parties to make products that plug into or inter
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by slizard 9y ago
^ This! Please read this before moving on: https://twitter.com/jrprice89/status/667466444355993600 Also, NVIDIA's CUDA compilers are built on clang which does have OpenCL frontend, so all they would need to d
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by slizard 9y ago
Also the opposite can be true as well (>2x slower); e.g try to rely heavily on shuffle.
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by slizard 9y ago
> It's always been 10-20% slower than CUDA and frankly NVIDIA doesn't have an incentive to make it faster than that. Incorrect. Our kernels (GROMACS molecular simulation package) are 2-3x slower implemented in OpenCL vs CUDA. &
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by slizard 9y ago
I don't wish you the suffering vendor lock-in can cause after 10 years (hell, even less) of faithfully following the NVIDIA path, but... actually I do because that probably the best way to realize what's wrong with proprietary sys
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by slizard 9y ago
The point where you suggested that x86 PCs are "open systems" (listing it next to "Linux" of all things!) I realized that you don't get it. We are where we are with Intel ripping off the consumers and companies alik
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by slizard 9y ago
> One problem with showering before cycling is that it takes me a long time to cool down/dry off after a shower. Does it really have to? I'm sure you can avoid that by not using hot water (or even going with cold-ish) and not s
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by slizard 9y ago
While I have not been lucky enough to grow up "on the cycle", just a few years of commuting by bike all year around, I very much feel the same! On the shittiest day at work, or the most stressful situation at home, there's be
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by slizard 9y ago
I hope people & politics in the USA (and countries with similarly screwed up infrastructure) realize soon that, on the long run, turning public space, roads and in general (sub)urban infrastructure into a space designated for cars and c
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by slizard 9y ago
I've no source to cite, but AFAIK similar observations have been made in multiple studies in countries where cycling has been/is becoming quite popular (e.g. Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden) and as far as I remember, they did control
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by slizard 9y ago
Very good point! I commute bi bicycle all year round and admittedly I'm not the chilled kind, so I tend to get soaked (from inside out) quite often, especially if the temperature is >15 C. However, I hate commuting in full bike gear
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by slizard 9y ago
Oh yes, my biggest pain is that Firefox can't replace the webview browser, so I still get tracked and shown ads if I use the Google app or any other app with the in-app webview browser.
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by slizard 9y ago
The key idea is already in the second sentence of TFA: "The product was an unlikely pick for top technology investors, but they were drawn to the idea of an internet-connected device that transforms single-serving packets of chopped fr
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by slizard 9y ago
> Still, I would have very much liked to play around with the 'phi'. Well, if you're still interested, KNL is a significantly better architecture, so you could just try now. > That's the kind of deal I was looking
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by slizard 9y ago
> The inconvenient part of XXX are the false positives when searching. Would you mind elaborating what kind of source code contains numerous triplets of the uppercase character "X" and why? I have never seen such code other tha
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by slizard 9y ago
> ...but actually getting one has so far proved to be impossible. Where/when did you try buying? I didn't think it was difficult to get the 1st-gen Phi cards while they were selling them -- especially as it seemed like nobody
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Unravelling why shoelace knots fail(nature.com)
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by slizard 9y ago
Pre-, during, or post-burnout?
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by slizard 9y ago
> Do not mix & match consumer-rated gear with 'professional' gear. (i.e. If you put the K80 in a system with a GTX1080, then the Nvidia drivers restrict the number of available processing cores to 2 per device) Huh? Not su
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by slizard 10y ago
https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/04/05/growing-ubuntu-for-cl...
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by slizard 10y ago
It's a pity they omitted comparing against the Maxwell-gen GPUs like the M40/M4. Those were out already in late 2015 and are also on 28 nm. Perhaps the reason is simply that they don't have them in their servers, but we'
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by slizard 10y ago
I don't think there's anything illegal in ove-promising and severely under-delivering. Also, given the long delay of the 1st gen product release Intel's massive PR and marketing machinery had plenty of time to rewire many if
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by slizard 10y ago
Partly it is just marketing fluff, Intel trying to save their face and hoping that most will not remember the promises of revolutionary product while what they released is barely evolutionary. Can't find a better article right now than
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by slizard 10y ago
The article extends on the previous articles and claims made by SA, most recently this one discussed in another HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12562856 Definitely curious to see if Intel will indeed fail as
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by slizard 10y ago
Hypothetical or real? If real, link to source please.
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by slizard 10y ago
Sadly these gen-1 ThunderX cores are pretty poor in performance and not particularly power-efficient either. Cache performance is especially sucky. https://www.servethehome.com/exclusive-first-cavium-thunderx... http:&#x2F

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