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2 months ago
in First Moonlight 2.0 Preview is Out - Miguel de Icaza on Miguel de Icaza's blog
Known issue on DebBuntu, fix incoming soon (tested it myself)
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3 months ago
in Supercomputing Mono - Miguel de Icaza on Miguel de Icaza's blog
In actual numbers:
A SC072-PDS costs $23,695.00 and offers 72 cores with an Rpeak of 100.8 GFLOPs total
An 8-core Mac Pro costs $3,299.00 and offers 8 cores with an RPeak of 72.32 GFLOPs total
Even if you trick the mac out with 32 gig of RAM (the SiCortex has 48 as standard) and the top-end processors, you get 93.76 GFLOPs and 32 gig of RAM for $11,999.00
Will the Apple use $11,696 more electricity over 3 years?
A SC072-PDS costs $23,695.00 and offers 72 cores with an Rpeak of 100.8 GFLOPs total
An 8-core Mac Pro costs $3,299.00 and offers 8 cores with an RPeak of 72.32 GFLOPs total
Even if you trick the mac out with 32 gig of RAM (the SiCortex has 48 as standard) and the top-end processors, you get 93.76 GFLOPs and 32 gig of RAM for $11,999.00
Will the Apple use $11,696 more electricity over 3 years?
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migueldeicaza
Rodrigo Kumpera on IRC pointed out that there is worth keeping in mind that the SiCortex system FLOPage is with regular instructions while it seems that the Xeon-based FLOpage requires the code to be all SIMD-specific.
Just posting that for what it is worth.
Just posting that for what it is worth.
directhex
FLOP counts are, of course, bullshit and chips. Just ask Nvidia users.
3 months ago
in Supercomputing Mono - Miguel de Icaza on Miguel de Icaza's blog
Sadly, the economics don't side with Sicortex - their machines are phenomenally expensive, so the chances of recouping the capital costs over a typical 3-year lifetime are pretty much nil, compared to a pair of Nehalem-core Xeons. They also don't appear to have anything in the way of a hardware roadmap - so whilst Intel and AMD shoot off into the distance, their 1GHz MIPS chips will show their age (moreso) immediately.
Nice concept, but issues with execution
Nice concept, but issues with execution
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directhex
In actual numbers:
A SC072-PDS costs $23,695.00 and offers 72 cores with an Rpeak of 100.8 GFLOPs total
An 8-core Mac Pro costs $3,299.00 and offers 8 cores with an RPeak of 72.32 GFLOPs total
Even if you trick the mac out with 32 gig of RAM (the SiCortex has 48 as standard) and the top-end processors, you get 93.76 GFLOPs and 32 gig of RAM for $11,999.00
Will the Apple use $11,696 more electricity over 3 years?
A SC072-PDS costs $23,695.00 and offers 72 cores with an Rpeak of 100.8 GFLOPs total
An 8-core Mac Pro costs $3,299.00 and offers 8 cores with an RPeak of 72.32 GFLOPs total
Even if you trick the mac out with 32 gig of RAM (the SiCortex has 48 as standard) and the top-end processors, you get 93.76 GFLOPs and 32 gig of RAM for $11,999.00
Will the Apple use $11,696 more electricity over 3 years?
Matt Reilly
Don't use the PDS price as the benchmark price for a system: the SC1458 and 5832 are
priced much differently. The PDS price was set independent of its cost -- people buy it as a development feeder for their larger machines. For the larger machines, the TCO over a 3 year lifetime is in favor of the SiCortex box for any application that is dependent on communication, in any environment where electricity is more than $0.1/KW-hr.
As for hardware roadmap, they have a second generation product in development.
<disclaimer> I am one of the three founders of SiCortex, and its former Chief Engineer. </disclaimer>
priced much differently. The PDS price was set independent of its cost -- people buy it as a development feeder for their larger machines. For the larger machines, the TCO over a 3 year lifetime is in favor of the SiCortex box for any application that is dependent on communication, in any environment where electricity is more than $0.1/KW-hr.
As for hardware roadmap, they have a second generation product in development.
<disclaimer> I am one of the three founders of SiCortex, and its former Chief Engineer. </disclaimer>
3 months ago
in Game Developers Conference - Miguel de Icaza on Miguel de Icaza's blog
I'll bite... Why a Sims 3 logo?
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migueldeicaza
I like to spice up my blog entries with images, otherwise they are boring.
3 months ago
in BareFTP - Miguel de Icaza on Miguel de Icaza's blog
A *stable* gFTP clone? Where do I sign up?
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Mathias Hasselmann
Nautilus?
7 months ago
in Unity on Linux, First Screenshots - Miguel de Icaza on Miguel de Icaza's blog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aGDCE6Nrz0
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driAn
Uhm.. Cube? I work on a game/engine called like this ;) See http://assault.cubers.net
Thanks