Thursday, March 26
Daily News Stuff 26 March 2020
Really, That Was The Plan Edition
Really, That Was The Plan Edition
Tech News
- If you need more than 256GB of RAM for your desktop, as many of us do, there are affordable Epyc workstation motherboards that support up to 2TB. (AnandTech)
This one is PCIe 3.0 only, but on the other hand that's seven slots configured as x8/x16/x8/x16/x16/x8/x16 so bandwidth is not in short supply. Also twin 10G Ethernet plus another port for remote management, and 16 SATA ports.
- Speaking of big computers Folding@Home has hit 1.5 exaflops. (AnandTech)
Which is a lot.
- The source code to AMD's Navi designs has allegedly been stolen. (Tom's Hardware)
Not the drivers, but the designs for the chips themselves.
The only possible market for the stolen data is China, and at this point they'd get sanctioned into dust if they tried anything.
- Implementing function overloading in Python.
It doesn't look all that bad, but you really only want to do this in statically-typed languages, which Python is not.
- The cloud is full. (The Register)
Oops.
- Linux is dropping support for 100BaseVG networking. (Phoronix)
That's not a variant of 100G Ethernet. That's a variant of 100M Ethernet that failed about 25 years ago.
Disclaimer: Alright, we've got exactly eight hours and fifty-seven minutes to get to Rome, break into the Vatican, get down to St Peter's tomb, and find the elevator.
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"This one is PCIe 3.0 only"
Intel shills assure me that's not a problem because even the fastest video card can barely saturate a 3.0 x16 link.
It doesn't seem to occur to them that using a 4.0 x8 link instead means you have 8 more lanes.
Intel shills assure me that's not a problem because even the fastest video card can barely saturate a 3.0 x16 link.
It doesn't seem to occur to them that using a 4.0 x8 link instead means you have 8 more lanes.
Posted by: Rick C at Friday, March 27 2020 12:39 AM (Iwkd4)
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Full cloud: I wonder if that's in any way related to the story not too long ago about the way Azure counts memory leading it to say you can't have any more even though there's lots more.
Posted by: Rick C at Friday, March 27 2020 12:54 AM (Iwkd4)
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On PCIe - yep. It means AMD now has 48 lanes worth of bandwidth on their standard desktop chips, like Intel's workstation parts. But Epyc has so much bandwidth anyway that it doesn't matter as much.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, March 27 2020 12:29 PM (PiXy!)
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