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by slizard 10y ago
The CPU has 24 lanes and the chipset can add up to 8 additional lanes, see [1] first table. It's a pity that they did not include at least 32 lanes on-chip to allow two full x16 GPUs at least on the 1800X, but I hope there is a 1900X i
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by slizard 10y ago
FTFY: some major parallel workloads are done on the GPU anyway, so parallel work on CPUs is often still relevant. ;)
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by slizard 10y ago
If you end up buying high TDP chip, you can simply cap the clock either in BIOS or in kernel to save power.
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by slizard 10y ago
> On all those benchmarks, (i.e. your standard LU matrix decomposition which previously was the basis of the LAPACK benchmarks, though things might have changed in the ~10 years since I've really looked at things) isn't CPU-bou
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by slizard 10y ago
Sure, in this particular file every year in the interval is listed, but in a large codebase that's not always the case. Always listing every year keeps things simple, consistent, avoids complications around extra statement and clauses,
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by slizard 10y ago
This is why: "For software with several releases over multiple years, it's okay to use a range (“2008-2010”) instead of listing individual years (“2008, 2009, 2010”) if and only if every year in the range, inclusive, really is a “
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by slizard 10y ago
Harder in what sense? There is nothing (or very little) that makes OpenCL significantly harder by nature! OpenCL developer tools and libraries are however a disadvantage compared to NVIDIA's CUDA stack. That's partly thanks to AMD
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by slizard 10y ago
The real problem starts with the idea/wording of "one / two income family". It trivializes the issue and is likely rooted in the dated "housewife" concept that forces people into a permanent role, dependence, a
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by slizard 10y ago
Support for a lot of the statements can be found in the refs of this Science VS podcast episode [1] which, in its 3rd part, deals specifically with the environmental impact of organic farming. [1] https://gimletmedia.com/epi
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by slizard 10y ago
Note that this is biomedicine. I doubt many other fields will show wildly different trends, but some will likely have less grim trends (e.g. engineering sciences, computing).
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The price of doing a postdoc(sciencemag.org)
2 points by slizard 10y ago|1 comments
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by slizard 10y ago
The concept that a job gives meaning and structure to life, builds character, etc." is not sustainable in the future. Related, interesting read: https://aeon.co/essays/what-if-jobs-are-not-the-solution-but...
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by slizard 10y ago
> I don't understand why we expect people to be paid the same for less work. Because the "standard" work week is an artificial construct that has arbitrary definition. Also because this is a way to bridge the gap between a
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by slizard 10y ago
Even if it is not found to be acceptable now (which might sadly turn out to be the case even in Sweden), at least when jobs start to dry out, people will realize that an intermediate solution to increasing unemployment is letting people wor
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In Sweden, Happiness in a Shorter Workday Can’t Overcome the Cost(nytimes.com)
48 points by slizard 10y ago|70 comments
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Putting the Rise of Chinese Supercomputing in Perspective(top500.org)
2 points by slizard 10y ago|0 comments
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Beauty Meets HPC: An Overview of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center(insidehpc.com)
3 points by slizard 10y ago|0 comments
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by slizard 10y ago
> But it's interesting to consider why HIP doesn't support compiling to OpenCL. It's not HIP that will support compiling _to_ OpenCL, but rather the compiler toolchain will have an OpenCL compiler that will compile down to
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by slizard 10y ago
> GM1XX is Maxwell 1st Gen, which was the 750ti, the Gefore 800M series, Tegra K1 and Tesla M10, GM2XX is Maxwell 2nd Gen. My bad, forgot about 5.0 devices being called GM1xx. Still, AFAIR there was little practical difference (in partic
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by slizard 10y ago
> Not sure if Maxwell came out of the blue, Maxwell 1 was designed for mobile, embedded and tesla, Maxwell 2 came out most likely because Pascal at large was delayed. First off not sure what you are referring to by "Maxwell 1"
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by slizard 10y ago
NVIDIA is playing catch-up with themselves and the shifting market too! Just look at the Maxwell-based Tesla cards that came out of the blue (as if they were an afterthought); I bet Facebook, Baidu, Google, etc. told NVIDIA that Kepler was
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by slizard 10y ago
It's clearly indicated on the slide that those are Deepbench [1] GEMM and GEMM-convolution numbers. Data for M40, TITAN Maxwell/Pascal and Intel KNL is actually provided by Baidu in their Github repo. [1] https://github
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by slizard 10y ago
> So it's a headless passively cooled server version of the R9 Fury X? I figured this was a faster and improved version. Almost. My guess is R9 Nano [1] given the same 8.2 Tflops (SP) Flop rate [2]. [1] http://www.anandte
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by slizard 10y ago
The tricky, but fun parts. It's certainly not trivial to port those, but I'm not too worried about it as long as there is solid runtime support in ROCm. More fun work for perf engineers like me. ;) Massive amount of boilerplate, h
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by slizard 10y ago
The ML/deep learning technologies are peaking or will peak in the coming years on the hype curve [1], so it is not too late for AMD to join the show, there is plenty of newcomers and growing entities to buy hardware. So even though the
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by slizard 10y ago
> can't interop the "operational" CUDA features What exactly do you that mean?
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by slizard 10y ago
What's particularly interesting here is that the Fiji card they propose is a very different beast than any of the NVIDIA offerings. The MI8 card's HBM has a great power and performance advantage (512 GB/s peak bandwidth) eve
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by slizard 10y ago
Additionally, here's an example of how Caffe was porting using HIP [1]. To be honest, if the approach really does work, you might see a very quick increase in the number of applications ported. All in all, given how elegant HIP is and
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Is AMD Licensing Radeon Graphics to Intel?(forbes.com)
3 points by slizard 10y ago|0 comments
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“The licensing deal [] putting AMD GPU tech into Intel's iGPU.”(hardforum.com)
2 points by slizard 10y ago|0 comments

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