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by slizard 10y ago
Preemptive move to avoid having to work with Trump and friends? Or perhaps the Clinton investigation's side-effects affected him (rather than Comey)? Admittedly wild guesses and I'm not very familiar with the, politics and interna
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Director of National Intelligence James Clapper Resigns(arstechnica.com)
2 points by slizard 10y ago|2 comments
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by slizard 10y ago
The excitement comes from the fact that some workloads benefit greatly from GPUs -- mostly those where the GPU arch offers some niche-advantage that can give GPUs >=10x perf[/W]. A good example is deep learning where Intel is strugg
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by slizard 10y ago
Thanks for the explanation, that's what I guessed -- which has both good & bad aspects. The good is the flexibility, the bad is that: > If those bytes happen to be Debian 8 with some AMD driver that supports the 9300, awesome ;)
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by slizard 10y ago
Kudos for Google and happy to see that at least in principle AMD is still an option. I wonder what kind of device driver does GCE use with AMD, the new ROCm? What about Power8 + NVLink harware? Does anybody know if the current NVIDIA GPUs,
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by slizard 10y ago
Still no OpenCL, still only promised as a "preview" for mid Dec. I'm still very worried that AMD will fail, not because of the hardware, but due to their lacking software stack.
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PGI releases free community edition compiler suite(pgroup.com)
2 points by slizard 10y ago|0 comments
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by slizard 10y ago
I'd be curious how did they install the 124 4U servers that pull >3kW each. Certainly not 9-10 of them per rack, that would be hard to power in standard racks let alone cooling them. Maybe instead of wasting half a rack, they interl
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by slizard 10y ago
Will it blend?
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by slizard 10y ago
One might argue that it's clickbait, but the original title does not claim anything that's particularly nonsensical. All that it claimed was that a data-breach affecting Telegram users (considerable number of) has been identified.
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by slizard 10y ago
If they rely to a great extent on an unsafe protocol which ultimately leads to the theft of sensitive data, that does represent a problem _within_ Telegram, doesn't it?
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Hackers accessed Telegram messaging accounts in Iran – researchers(reuters.com)
139 points by slizard 10y ago|64 comments
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by slizard 10y ago
What about benchmarks and performance updates/regression/etc.? I'm sure the CUDA to OCL switch was a preformance hit at least in some cases (and compared to the equivalent CUDA code). Has anybody worked on something comprehen
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by slizard 10y ago
Good launch pace, if they keep it up, they'll surely build up a positive reputation quickly.
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by slizard 10y ago
Good idea, but good lucking finding wide enough support for it. I think national and commercial interest will fight fiercely to keep the event moving because otherwise how would they "keep fostering investment" (producing lots of
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by slizard 10y ago
I'm glad this came out. Now there should be more concrete information to use in lobbying against these nasty deals WIP.
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Mysterious Nvidia marketing trick(orderof10.com)
1 points by slizard 10y ago|1 comments
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Radeon Open Compute Platform:driver, compiler, runtime, assembler, all on GitHub(github.com)
2 points by slizard 10y ago|0 comments
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Radeon Open Compute Platform (ROCm): Components, Platforms and Installation(gpuopen.com)
3 points by slizard 10y ago|1 comments
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by slizard 10y ago
AMD's new Boltzmann initiative includes an LLVM-based compiler which has been posted online. I'm not sure what are the plans around an OpenCL fronted, but the backend should be there, so I think an OpenCL support in LLVM for AMD G
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by slizard 10y ago
Does anybody known whether they disclosed how sensitive was the information that they the intruder could have gotten hold of -- especially the passwords, were they stored XOR'd or encrypted+salted?
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by slizard 10y ago
I take your point about FreeBSD's benefits, but we need to be realistic. People want working devices/peripherals (admittedly, I'm not very familiar with the state of the drivers on FreeBSD today, but I know it has been an iss
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by slizard 10y ago
While the point about the different level of support of different repos is a good one and it does deserve more awareness, without the right context the claims of the article are easy to mis- or over-interpret. I think a fair comparison woul
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by slizard 10y ago
A large fraction of users seem to disagree! Ubuntu is the most popular server distro in the cloud, by far. http://fossbytes.com/ubuntu-linux-is-the-most-popular-operat... https://duh6oa3w9hopv.cloudfront.net&#x2F
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by slizard 11y ago
Depends what you want to gain? You want to do scientific computing? Interested in mobile platforms? Or just curious about GPUs? Without knowing the answer to that, I won't attempt to go into more details, but will give two examples: *
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by slizard 11y ago
> The main problem is OpenCL seems an order of magnitude more complex than CUDA. Do you have any experience to back that up with? I've worked with both and I know that there are areas where your "order of magnitude" (which
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by slizard 11y ago
> CUDA is designed to help NVidia to sell more chips so I don't see it as a big risk. Don't you see it as a risk to marry your project to a proprietary API of a company that actively and intentionally cripples their implementat
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by slizard 11y ago
> My bold guess is because there are more training machines run on Nviada GPUs as opposed to AMD's. Likely not so bold. AMD GPUs are good, but a quite a bit more pain to program compared to NVIDIA with CUDA (OpenCL on NVIDIA is more
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by slizard 11y ago
While this is nice in that it sets the example (and provides publicity to bioarxiv) it's not a couple of Nobel laureates that post one out of dozen(s) of papers/year published that will make the real difference. The system is aged
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Canonical Impresses with Ubuntu Core and Low-Power Mobile Devices(tomshardware.com)
2 points by slizard 11y ago|0 comments

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