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Comment Re: ARM Host support (Score 0) 24

by killmode on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @11:44AM (#58782104) Attached to: Nvidia Will Support ARM Hardware For High-Performance Computing

You're correct that arm was already supported by the NVIDIA chips you listed, but now in addition to those, external licensees of Arm Holdings companies can use Cuda with arm. Off the top of my head, Applied Micro's X-gene, Thunder-X by Cavium, 64core from Ampere and eventually others.
Who knows, maybe Qualcomm and Apple. They are just adding Arm to the existing supported CPU flavors, X86 and Power.
good deeper dive here: https://hexus.net/tech/news/industry/131783-nvidia-announces-cuda-software-stack-coming-arm-year/

Submission + - The Periodic, Somewhat Obligatory "Earth is Flat" Argument Rears It's Head Again

Submitted by mjjochen on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @09:58PM

mjjochen writes: A little something to make you smile (or cry). NPR reports on astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson calling out rapper B.o.B. in a twitter (& rap) argument over the status of the earth (are we round or flat?), article can be found here: http://www.npr.org/sections/th.... Rapper B.o.B. references the usual conspiracy theories to support his case in his throw down. Neil deGrasse Tyson responds, actually his nephew responds, on why B.o.B.'s points are not very well-informed: https://soundcloud.com/drtyson.... As Tyson puts it, "Duude — to be clear: Being five centuries regressed in your reasoning doesn't mean we all can't still like your music." Shall we start leaching the four humors from the body again to achieve balance? Hrm.

Comment Re:Currently? (Score 0) 951

by killmode on Wednesday November 21, 2012 @03:42AM (#42052273) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Video Games Keep You From Using Linux?

I'd agree with that list , especially BF3. also, don't a lot of games have driver specific patch add-ons? my nvidia drivers just updated a few days ago, and I check the release notes: many different games listed, tweaks here, bug fixes there. are the steam/valve folks going to be able to have the same level of Nvidia/AMD video card drivers for Xorg?

right now i'm dual booting a Macbook pro 15" just so i can run BF3, and World of Warcraft. plus some older flight sims.

mark

Comment You can use Air to cool 35KW why bother with oil? (Score 0) 230

by killmode on Tuesday September 04, 2012 @11:41PM (#41231073) Attached to: Intel Embraces Oil Immersion Cooling For Servers

Oil immersion works, but why bother?
99.99% of datacenters still rely on moving cool air through hot servers to cool them. in some instances you could make a case for mineral oil bath cooling. if you want to push the envelope of server cooling, try using our Vertically cooled servers. www.cirrascale.com. we believe that hot air naturally wants to rise.
we pack 72 18"tall 1U wide servers in one rack, or 96 13" tall servers. 10's of thousands deployed
we've been able to cool over 30KW of load in one rack with Air on a non raised floor datacenter. We've been doing it for years, and we don't void warranties to do it.
"excuse me, Mr. Dell/HP/IBM service center person... this server isn't working.. can you take a look at it please"
"Be happy to... Um uh, why is it in a plastic ziplock bag?"
"oh that's to keep the mineral oil from dripping on your service lab floor"
RMA declined!, Warranty Null & Void!
mark.skinner@cirrascale.com

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