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Forum: CPUs 10-28-2011, 01:21 PM
Replies: 495
Poll: the BD story
Views: 70,171
Posted By aaronspink
Scaling is for cleaning fish. It is a...

Scaling is for cleaning fish. It is a meaningless performance comparison.

A scales at 99.99% from 1 to 1000 widgets.
B scales at 10% from 1 to 1000 widgets.

A is still slower than B at 1000...
Forum: CPUs 10-13-2011, 10:13 PM
Replies: 1,275
Views: 179,835
Posted By aaronspink
The point being that using viewperf for cpu...

The point being that using viewperf for cpu benchmarks using a crippled gpu is a pretty pointless benchmark.
Forum: CPUs 10-13-2011, 09:55 PM
Replies: 1,275
Views: 179,835
Posted By aaronspink
Yes it is lol. It points out how pointless your...

Yes it is lol. It points out how pointless your poster boy benchmark is when the slowest reported result is 3x what you are posting and it is a laptop!
Forum: CPUs 10-13-2011, 05:14 PM
Replies: 1,275
Views: 179,835
Posted By aaronspink
The sad part is your poster boy gets beat by...

The sad part is your poster boy gets beat by almost 3x by a laptop with a 2.3 Ghz QC.


http://www.spec.org/gwpg/gpc.data/vp11/Fujitsu/CELSIUS_H710_Quadro1000M/sw-02/viewperfresult.html
Forum: CPUs 10-12-2011, 12:50 PM
Replies: 1,275
Views: 179,835
Posted By aaronspink
Sparc had great scaling back in the day. QED:...

Sparc had great scaling back in the day. QED: scaling is easy when your baseline is horrid -> less resource contention -> better scaling. QED: scaling in a vacuum is useless.
Forum: CPUs 06-27-2011, 05:54 PM
Replies: 111
Views: 18,285
Posted By aaronspink
I'm not sure it would even be the 5001st fastest...

I'm not sure it would even be the 5001st fastest cluster. it is basically a single rack of blades or 4x2x2s. There are a lot of those around.
Forum: CPUs 06-27-2011, 11:58 AM
Replies: 111
Views: 18,285
Posted By aaronspink
that all your google search could come up with? ...

that all your google search could come up with? you realize that is basically a training machine at a university, right? and wouldn't even make #500 on the top 500 list. Why don't you try to find...
Forum: CPUs 06-26-2011, 04:12 AM
Replies: 111
Views: 18,285
Posted By aaronspink
You'll have to point out where I said HPC and...

You'll have to point out where I said HPC and linux were orthogonal.



You've linked a lot of pages with data that is nonrelavent to my comment. You also note that cray doesn't use GCC with...
Forum: CPUs 06-25-2011, 06:20 AM
Replies: 111
Views: 18,285
Posted By aaronspink
And the number of people who are going to use IL...

And the number of people who are going to use IL for production HPC codes...
Forum: CPUs 06-25-2011, 06:18 AM
Replies: 111
Views: 18,285
Posted By aaronspink
Strange, not a lot of people spend millions on...

Strange, not a lot of people spend millions on hardware to use substandard tool chains aka GNU! There are places where the gnu toolchains make sense, and places where they don't. The GNU tool...
Forum: CPUs 06-23-2011, 05:30 PM
Replies: 111
Views: 18,285
Posted By aaronspink
Tell that to all the people that actually work in...

Tell that to all the people that actually work in HPC that are unhappy with toolsets when not working on x86. Once again, people are underestimating the impact of toolchains and legacy.
Forum: CPUs 06-22-2011, 03:52 AM
Replies: 144
Views: 17,674
Posted By aaronspink
Linpack is only used for historical reasons and...

Linpack is only used for historical reasons and is actually a pretty poor representative of actual HPC applications overall, esp on the large scale HPC machines.

As an example, no one actually in...
Forum: Article discussion 02-15-2011, 06:00 PM
Replies: 59
Views: 9,636
Posted By aaronspink
I'm not sure anyone can go that far. Lots of...

I'm not sure anyone can go that far. Lots of people still scratching their head over the Nokia thing considering that Nokia has sold more 3x more top end smartphones in the last 3 months that WP7...
Forum: Article discussion 02-15-2011, 05:57 PM
Replies: 57
Views: 6,386
Posted By aaronspink
ARM does what ARM does what ARM has always done. ...

ARM does what ARM does what ARM has always done. No different. No change. Just the status quo. Go back to 1997, ARM, same place, different time. Nothing has changed. If anything they have...
Forum: Article discussion 02-15-2011, 05:56 PM
Replies: 194
Views: 27,537
Posted By aaronspink
Just the vast majority of all computers in the...

Just the vast majority of all computers in the world...



Because they are pointless exercises in trying to convince the world you are still relevant?

A real grand challenge is this:...
Forum: Article discussion 02-10-2011, 04:32 AM
Replies: 86
Views: 19,521
Posted By aaronspink
oh it may be changing but the reality is all the...

oh it may be changing but the reality is all the knowledge base comes from one side. Once given that knowledge base the other may run with it, but it isn't like they built up the knowledge base on...
Forum: Article discussion 02-08-2011, 06:37 PM
Replies: 86
Views: 19,521
Posted By aaronspink
Who are the minorities, the one developing all...

Who are the minorities, the one developing all the technologies, know how, and patents, or the others who don't have the technologies, know how or patents?
Forum: Article discussion 01-23-2011, 05:40 PM
Replies: 86
Views: 19,521
Posted By aaronspink
This is simply not true. Faster transistors are...

This is simply not true. Faster transistors are larger.
Forum: CPUs 01-21-2011, 05:44 PM
Replies: 84
Views: 17,054
Posted By aaronspink
Idle C6 state! Not impressive, they really...

Idle C6 state! Not impressive, they really should have gone for infinite turbo!
Forum: CPUs 01-19-2011, 04:31 PM
Replies: 72
Views: 8,772
Posted By aaronspink
I'm well aware of what was available at the time....

I'm well aware of what was available at the time. What you are apparently unaware of was the PPRO shipped in 1995 and not 1996.

For R10k, it wasn't until the end of 1996 that they were really...
Forum: CPUs 01-19-2011, 12:03 PM
Replies: 72
Views: 8,772
Posted By aaronspink
Learn some history. x86 servers since P6 (when...

Learn some history. x86 servers since P6 (when they really started competing with RISC based servers) were either the highest performing or second highest performing option. And in a lot of cases,...
Forum: Finance, Legal, Policy 01-18-2011, 02:56 AM
Replies: 265
Views: 34,399
Posted By aaronspink
ask yourself why platinum is unsuitable but gold...

ask yourself why platinum is unsuitable but gold is. Be analytic, not emotional.

But your bringing up of platinum is useful. When the Spanish invaded central and south America, they threw any...
Forum: Finance, Legal, Policy 01-18-2011, 01:06 AM
Replies: 265
Views: 34,399
Posted By aaronspink
And most governments at any time can devalue...

And most governments at any time can devalue gold, many companies can devalue gold. You do realize that gold right now, is hyper inflated, right? Gold doesn't solve anything. The only value it has...
Forum: Finance, Legal, Policy 01-18-2011, 12:58 AM
Replies: 265
Views: 34,399
Posted By aaronspink
read it, found it humorous. Until Nixon, all US...

read it, found it humorous. Until Nixon, all US currency was gold backed. Doesn't matter if the currency is debt based or commodity based because it is all fiat. After all, you can't eat gold...
Forum: CPUs 01-18-2011, 12:50 AM
Replies: 150
Views: 28,767
Posted By aaronspink
They were just doing accelerated reliability...

They were just doing accelerated reliability testing. This isn't the first time people have done this. There was an issue back in the early 00's where the ASCI Q machine was generating errors at a...
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