Really impressive results. Hopefully RaptorCS continues to be successful.
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Raptor Talos II POWER9 Benchmarks Against AMD Threadripper & Intel Core i9
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Originally posted by darkbasic View Post
How long will you keep the system? Would love to see more and more tests.Michael Larabel
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Originally posted by hax0r View PostDoes Talos II support off the shelf AMD/Nvidia graphics cards or the card needs special BIOS/firmware that contains POWER compatbile binary? My SPARC64 VII for instance needs special Radeon card that has BIOS compiled for SPARC arch.
We've been working on ways to simplify providing the proprietary GPU firmware to the bootloader, see for instance https://wiki.raptorcs.com/wiki/Talos..._To_BOOTKERNFW, but there's still some work to go (including making this as simple as point + click). Long term it would be great if AMD would provide open firmware for their GPUs and compute cards, so that either it could be flashed to the GPU itself or shipped as part of the base firmware image, but AMD has publicly stated they cannot do so at this time.
If you don't want to mess around with GPU firmware and the bootloader, you don't need to -- just use the onboard VGA or serial to interact with the bootloader and allow the OS to load the proprietary firmware for your GPU.Last edited by madscientist159; 08 November 2018, 06:21 PM.
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"The Talos II power consumption during this task was about a 400 Watt average." That's more then my ageing dual-core Apple "IBM 970MP" G5, … where can I sight up? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU1RK4TR-GA ;-)
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Originally posted by Marc Driftmeyer View PostRetail cost for your config is what? $7500-$8500?
https://www.titancomputers.com/Best-...uters-s/72.htm
OK 4/5000 is an average These in data centers probably do only Dual Sockets and Quad AMD Instinct/s... of course all that comes with an Instinctive pricesLast edited by dungeon; 08 November 2018, 07:25 PM.
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