The machine I had been using was more than 5 years old and half the speed! On 6 June 2015 at 16:51, leif <not.rea...@online.de> wrote:
> Bill Hart wrote: > > New computer for MPIR development > > =========================== > > > > Another piece of news is that we now have a new machine, courtesy of > > William Stein at the University of Washington Department of Mathematics, > > which we can use for MPIR development. > > > > It is a recent piledriver AMD at 3GHz. It has 16 cores, 96 GB Ram and > > heaps of very fast hard drive, with Ubuntu 14.04. It is very speedy for > > development. > > Hmmm, details? > > Except for the APUs, AMD and recent yields false. ;-) (AFAIK, the > latest chips have been released in 2012 or early 2013; no Steamroller > update, still 32 nm, and the server and "high-end" desktop chipsets are > even older and outdated -- PCIe 2.0, SATA II (!) and USB 2.0.) > > Given 16 AMD "cores" and the clock speed, I guess this is a > dual-8-"core" (3.1/3.2 GHz) Opteron 43xx/63xx machine. > > /rant > > > Hopefully AMD will get a bit more competitive with Zen (dropping XOP > which is broken in any GCC release although AMD themselves contributed, > and the module concept, where pairs of "cores" share a couple of > resources.) > > > > -leif > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "mpir-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to mpir-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to mpir-devel@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mpir-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mpir-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mpir-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to mpir-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mpir-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
