Windows 10 abuses the user by pushing things he does not want. Even with batch files to disable telemetry there are still things hanging around like web search integrated into the desktop even with Cortana turned off, which implies sending data packets to Bing servers when you are searching the...
I would expect 6 cores per CCX. The 10-15% IPC improvement is wonderful. It will put AMD at latest gen Intel level or better.
For those who ask, more cores come handy for software based multimedia decoding. Not relying in hardware devices is good. Problems arise when you use hardware video...
¿Linux? GNU is the OS. Linux is a kernel. Usually when you use GNU with Linux is spelled GNU/Linux or GNU+Linux or GNU-Linux to give credit where it is due. Now that we know what we are talking about, Snaps occupy too much space. It is better if you do not depend on Snaps. Snaps should be the...
Lock-free Linux kernel exists since a long time ago. Windows NT still struggles with kernel locks slowing down systems with high core counts.
You can design an algorithm and your data structures to access data without using locks. Coordination can be made only between relevant groups of cores...
Amdah'ls Law graphs depending on parallelizable fraction: https://askldjd.com/2010/01/30/some-plots-on-amdahls-law/
Algorithms are usually 90%+ parallelizable. Typical HPC workloads are 99% parallel.
And people try to design algorithms to have 99% parallel fractions.
On top of that there's...
The only way to continue improving is adding more cores. And making them power efficient. Which means that you will end up with multiple small in-order cores and a few big out-of-order cores.
Then you have to use runtime libraries to exploit those types of chips.
But then you get into commercial...
That is right. The Force does not allow you to survive in hostile environments for the organic life form race you belong. Think of scuba diving. If they could just pick up with them an oxigen bubble then they would never need the devices which allowed them to breathe under water in Episode I and...
Additionally, the use of the force by Leia and Luke and even Rey is placed as a plot hole filler. Does not follow any logic. Being savant with the force does not grant you anything without a minimum of training. Anakin and Luke did need training to move things and do Jedi tricks. Kyle Katarn...
The Jedi Order did not believe having a legendary status and they did not teach to be overconfident. They always said the dark side is always a danger. Yoda himself told Luke so.
In ROTJ Luke avoided the temptation of the dark side and attachment was precisely what allowed Darth Vader to return...
In the prequels you get Yoda making an awesome duel and use of the force.
In the sequels you don't even get Luke to do a proper physical appereance, just a projection which kills him because that drains his midiclorians' Force.
Bullshit.
Old Ben waited until Luke was ready to train him, but...
In recent years, GPUs have grown from 200mm² to 700mm².
CPUs are still 200mm².
The workloads that GPUs manage are parallel (both compute and memory parallel). Adding more units to work in parallel pays off.
CPUs are made for code with lots of control flow decisions and random accesses to...
I would add that different OSes with different scheduling priorities also make a difference.
And the data sets used by Geekbench probably fit in the cache of the mobile processor. Try using a bigger dataset or promote cache thrashing or more intercore communication.
Are you serious? :O
Once units are converted, In Spain we are paying around 4.16 euros per galon of standard performance gas, which equates to 4.95 USA dollars. High powered turbo engines use higher octane gasoline which is more expensive.
AFAIK, the current awesome bar incorporates the search engines, so you can get rid of the search bar. I suppose that firefox 57 will remove the search bar because it is not needed at all.
AFAIK Chrome OS is based on Fedora, therefore it is GNU/Linux.
For those gamers wanting to switch to GNU/Linux, there is the possibility of virtualizatoin and PCIe passthrough.
You can automate the launch of applications inside the Windows VM.
I was running on a Pentium MMX 233 MHz with an S3 ViRGE 2MiB and 32 MiB of system RAM (EDO). To me these "powerful" 3D accelerators were something from an alternate dimension lol.
Some years later I had access to a PC with a GeForce 2 MX64. I got to play a demo of Serious Sam: The second...
So what? He resigns. He is tired of doing processor development.
He probably has an NDA of many years so he can't be in processor business for a different company for quite some time after exiting Intel.
Under the light of this generation of processors, I can not consider true nor right saying that Intel processors are faster.
There is such a casuistic in the software toolchain that simply saying that Intel performs better than Ryzen, lacks a lot of accuracy.
Research papers measure improvements...
I corrected your quote. Faster is not best. Best is not fastest. Best depends on your target. ICC does not fit in many targets, including data centers or supercomputers.
AMD does not use ICC for their drivers. Neither does NVIDIA.
Tell big data centers to use proprietary software like ICC...