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Beeftweeter posted:maybe it does in ubuntu, but ubuntu sucks other people posted:lol ubuntu pro. What a great name. more like pubuntu 
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Beeftweeter posted:both of them need to stop with the rapid development rolling update bullshit. macos is not immune to this either, it is noticeably worse than it was even 5 years ago idk how to turn off macos asking me to update it so I've told it to ONLY give notifications between 11pm and 12am so most of the day it doesnt bug me because you cant just say "no"
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Trimson Grondag 3 posted:video cards are all hueg like the Xbox now. I have owned actual entire computers that are smaller than the 3070ti in my computer, and thats not even the biggest of the big cards
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to be fair, the actual cards are the same size as theyve been for several years. its the coolers
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the PCB of the RTX 3080 i got is taller by at least am inch compared to my RTX 2080. it aint just the coolers
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Be a lot cooler if it was though
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the numbers are getting out of hand
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Numbers are wild, they just go on forever, it aint right
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Numbers are wild, they just go on forever, it aint right
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I just got a Maximum IMPACT boardset for my Indigo² R10000 system not sure how much TRAM it has yet (it’ll be either 1MB or 4MB) but it should be pretty sweet, the best graphics you could get in a desktop in 1996 I wish I had the space for a deskside like an Onyx 2…
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riding the TRAM to the memory bus
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I built a new PC in December, my last PC was probably around 8 years old, and the ati 6700xt PCB is much larger than my slightly newer Nvidia 1050ti I put in as an upgrade in that old computer. Also lol'd at the M2 slot that is hidden underneath my new GPU on the motherboard. I also thought we'd finally left ribbon cables behind us but the nice power supply I bought had nothing but awkward as hell ribbon cables.
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eschaton posted:I just got a Maximum IMPACT boardset for my Indigo² R10000 system I used to have an Octane under my desk at work. It was great as a space heater in winter.
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I still have one under my desk, and another in the loft between the Indigo R4000 Élan and the Octane 2, and another couple in my storage that I need to process that were originally used for VFX and are seriously kitted out my cats love the warm air from the Octane under my desk so much that I need to disassemble it and vacuum off the top grille, it’s downright shaggy now (which will also be a good opportunity to install the PCI cage, upgrade the RAM, upgrade the graphics…) so I basically have an Onyx 2’s worth of Octanes eventually I plan to consolidate down to a couple high end ones just as I’ve done with some other stuff like old Macs, that’ll free up a bunch of space and spread the joy as well eschaton fucked around with this message at 05:42 on Mar 2, 2023 |
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my boss had an O2 back in ... 97? 98? idk. Anyway it was cool as hell.
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sgis we so fuckin cool back then goddamn except for the indys those fuckin sucked and everyone hated them
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yeah when you get an SGI system you expect it to have hardware 3D who cares if it’s faster at rendering in software than an Indigo R4K Élan is in hardware, that just means it should have even better hardware (which is basically the Indigo 2) the Indy was basically SGI’s attempt to move downmarket to try to do the “you can buy all your desktops from us! even your web and print designers’ and your admins’ workstations can be SGI!” the former actually got some traction thanks to the Adobe apps being ported (I believe because SGI paid Adobe to port them) but the latter never went anywhere because nobody wanted a system without MS Office and nobody wanted to run MS Office in SoftWindows
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i had a dual itanium workstation, it was slow as poo poo but worked great for heating my room
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lol itanium
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afen posted:i had a dual itanium workstation, it was slow as poo poo but worked great for heating my room I have an HP Itanium Blade BL860c with dual CPUs as well. Found it in the trash. Don't power it up often since its a power hog, even for a blade.
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afen posted:i had a dual itanium workstation, it was slow as poo poo but worked great for heating my room computers are always bad, but there was a long, long period where computers were Really Bad.
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i've always regretted not keeping my aptiva, but it was way too expensive to take across the pacific at the time
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i had a dual xeon workstation (those bad ones during the p4 days) and a 4x15k sas drive array in it. it was so loud and so hot. eventually started paying attention to things and not just bringing home every random computer that died at the shop when i did a SMART scan of all the drives in my computer closet and the hd running my firewall reported 72c
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eschaton posted:yeah when you get an SGI system you expect it to have hardware 3D an indigo without the go
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bored apes
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I am tired of bored apes. these yacht clubs. being caught in the tumbler of their slurp juices.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:lol itanium itanium these nuts
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bad news yall we are all laggards on the itanium adoption front
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I got to run some work stuff on a big iron itanium 2 machine right around when those came out. it was actually... really good and really fast. but I was not paying for it. can't imagine how much the thing cost.
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pmchem posted:I got to run some work stuff on a big iron itanium 2 machine right around when those came out. it was actually... really good and really fast. was itanium actually any better than x86 (or later x86-64 i guess)? genuinely curious, i don't think i've ever actually used an itanium box
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Beeftweeter posted:was itanium actually any better than x86 (or later x86-64 i guess)? on the particular problem I was working, which was largely numerical and parallelizable but not trivially parallel, yes. it was significantly faster wall-time to solution than competing x86 resources.
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pmchem posted:on the particular problem I was working, which was largely numerical and parallelizable but not trivially parallel, yes. it was significantly faster wall-time to solution than competing x86 resources. cool. i'm guessing being 64-bit probably helped a lot in that case, it's easy to forget just how limited (for a lack of a better term) things were in the early '00s now i wonder if it was better than something like alpha or the 64-bit power variants lol
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pmchem posted:on the particular problem I was working, which was largely numerical and parallelizable but not trivially parallel, yes. it was significantly faster wall-time to solution than competing x86 resources. this was one of the few markets Itanium did well. big fuckin matrices where you could pipeline a shitload of fused multiply-add ops per clock and never, ever needed to branch, and could use the ridiculously huge cache, and you could scale them up as wide as your budget allowed for lots of memory bandwidth (512 sockets per OS image in NASA's SGI super, in ~2004)
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in a well actually posted:this was one of the few markets Itanium did well. big fuckin matrices where you could pipeline a shitload of fused multiply-add ops per clock and never, ever needed to branch, and could use the ridiculously huge cache, and you could scale them up as wide as your budget allowed for lots of memory bandwidth (512 sockets per OS image in NASA's SGI super, in ~2004) yup, good old fortran without any conditionals in the speed-sensitive parts of the code
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Beeftweeter posted:cool. i'm guessing being 64-bit probably helped a lot in that case, it's easy to forget just how limited (for a lack of a better term) things were in the early '00s alpha was dead by the Itanium era. regular power was a better general purpose 64 bit system, but performance was pretty similar to itanium on scientific codes, iirc. ibm was pushing blue gene architecture for big science, which were a much simpler and slower processor than regular power or itanium, but there was a lot of them in BG systems
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wasn't blue gene just a bunch of ppc cores?
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nudgenudgetilt posted:wasn't blue gene just a bunch of ppc cores? obviously i don't know as much about this as some of you guys, but i think so. it's important to remember that ppc and power are distinct but related
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nudgenudgetilt posted:wasn't blue gene just a bunch of ppc cores? embedded ppc; telecom originally ibm would tell you the fabric/interconnect/glue os was the differentiator worked well for things that scaled very well because it was slow as poo poo individually the last one used ps3 / xbox360 derived cores
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got to run my stuff on a blue gene once, i hated the entire OS setup and arch. it sucked and deserved its death despite whatever marketing hype came out of ibm
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for a site anniversary they did tours so i got to see the room where they staged the full blue gene/l system for testing which was cool
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