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Re:Talos II by rekado on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @07:08AM (#14956542)
Do you not consider the freedom aspects (e.g. sources to the secure boot implementation, no x86, etc) as advantages in favour of Talos?
Re:Talos II by bitL on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @07:30AM (#14956664)
That's definitely nice! Any other advantages?
Re:Talos II by orbifold on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @07:38AM (#14956727)
The Power9 should be more performant than EPYC/ThreadRipper and CAPI gives you higher memory bandwidth to a GPU.
Re:Talos II by striking on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @10:09AM (#14957877)
Are there any benchmarks that I can look at for this?
Re:Talos II by milcron on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @03:08PM (#14972545)
Here is a comparison of POWER8 vs Intel Xeon http://www.anandtech.com/show/10435/assessing-ibms-power8-pa...