Bill Hart wrote:
> The machine I had been using was more than 5 years old and half the speed!

Und einem geschenkten Gaul schaut man nicht ins Maul...

I was just amused about the "recent".


-leif


> On 6 June 2015 at 16:51, leif <not.rea...@online.de
> <mailto: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     even older and outdated -- PCIe 2.0, SATA II (!)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

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