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Core or ISA? The quote from the article suggests only the ISA is open, which I think is also true of SPARC, nowadays (and POWER, as noted).
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Intel supports cache coherency for up to 8-CPU configurations, in its highest-end server CPUs. AMD's EPYC only scales up to dual-CPU, which is probably...

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I wonder whether Threadripper and EPYC show up as 1 CPU. Reason being that, for scheduling purposes, you want to treat each die as a different CPU....

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With all of the side-channel attacks that keep popping up, I think we can probably say any OS which doesn't disable N-1 cores on a N-core CPU prefers...

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Certain benchmarks seemed to show this when Skylake was launched. I'm a little surprised not to have seen more about it....

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Core and Core 2 did not have HT....

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When I first experimented with these (on a then-current Pentium 4), the effect of the non-temporal store instructions seemed to be restricting the L2...

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I think the useful metric is the median improvement. To read into any of these results, one should first do a scaling analysis of real cores. This would...

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I wouldn't read much into the result, without knowing more details about the code. It could be something as simple as cache thrashing or poor load-b...

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I assumed their knowledge of HT dated back to the Pentium 4 days. Even then, it was still usually a win.


Please repeat this benchmark...

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Relax.

So, his original comment was a bit dismissive. What's the big deal?...

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Better yet, install libjpeg-turbo - a drop-in replacement for libjpeg:

https://libjpeg-turbo.org/...

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As with most of Nvidia's recent activities, this is all about deep learning.

Imagine training sets comprised of hundreds of thousands or...

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We used them with GCC > 10 years ago. They were annoying. Much bigger than the .o files, as well (which could mitigate the performance gains, since...

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While I do care about compile times, they're not as important to me as the integrity of the output. As such, I'd only use this if the output were binary-identical...

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We care because Intel's iGPUs haven't materially changed since Skylake. That's a 4+ -year span with no appreciable improvement, except in hard-wired...

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Except that AMD is in PS4, XBox One, and now the upcoming (Linux-based) Atari console. The only non-PC platform Nvidia has is Nintendo Switch, which basically...

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Interesting. I found no such word (looks like a spell-checker autocorrect, so I thought maybe...), but it did lead me to find this:

http...

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For such a paranoid guy, you're surprisingly revealing of your furtive activities.

If I had to secure sensitive data somewhere, I imagine...

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Yeah, no complaints on the drivers. In fact, weren't ATI RAGE 128 used as onboard graphics in servers, for a while?

I just thought kped...