Wednesday, November 14
Daily News Stuff 14 November 2018
Tech News
- HLRS, the High Performance Computing Center at the University of Stuttgart, is building a new PC based on AMD's new 64-core "Rome" CPU. 10,000 of them. (AnandTech)
640,000 cores, 665TB of RAM, and 26PB of disk. Based on an HP Badger. Which is not a computer I am overly familiar with.
- QUIC stands for Quick UDP Internet Connections. (PC Perspective)
Just reading up on this, and I'm feeling more positive. If you live in Australia, accessing any secure site hosted in another country is s-l-o-w because it requires multiple round trips back and forth across the globe before the first useful byte actually gets sent. QUIC solves that. Somehow.
- AMD's Radeon RX 590 is out. (Tom's Hardware)
It's essentially identical to the RX 580, which is essentially identical to the RX 480. I have two RX 580s; they're by no means bad, but it's time AMD got something new out to market.
- Speaking of supercomputers, the Department of Energy's new Perlmutter system will be based on AMD's third generation Milan EPYC processors and Nvidia's unnamed next-generation GPUs. Based on the Cray Shasta architecture. (Tom's Hardware)
No announcement of the total number of cores, which is the ENTIRE POINT of supercomputer news articles.
- No, Zen 2 does not have 29% better IPC than Zen 1. (NotebookCheck)
Of course it doesn't. That sort of increase doesn't happen unless you're starting with a specifically low-end architecture, which Zen 1 certainly is not.
- All of GitLab's staff work remotely. (Inc.5000)
Disclaimer: I like GitLab.
- A wild Rome motherboard appeared!
It has five PCIe 4.0 slots - four x16 and one x8 - and two PCIE 3.0 slots. The PCIe 3.0 slots are the furthest from the CPU, so this might be the best that can be done without a repeater chip. PCIe 5.0 will have even tighter timings.
Rome will work in existing Naples motherboards (and vice versa) but then you don't get the improved I/O performance.
Social Media News
- Google points out that the demands of the totalitarian Chinese Communist Party are not that different from those made by the liberal, democratic European Union. (TechDirt)
Video of the Day
Japanese museum foils cat burglars.
Picture of the Day
The aforementioned Rome motherboard. This one is emphatically not standard ATX size.
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