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Re:AMD Discloses Initial Zen 2 Details by ianai on Sunday November 18, 2018 @02:33PM (#18482083)
I really think this is necessary for exascale computing. The core floodgate would have never opened without Intel getting several kicks in the pants.
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Re:AMD Discloses Initial Zen 2 Details by tanderson92 on Sunday November 18, 2018 @06:09PM (#18482989)
You can do the math but my estimates are that the energy costs would still be too high for exascale with pure-CPU compute. Accelerators are the way anyone actually planning to build an exascale machine is getting there.
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Re:AMD Discloses Initial Zen 2 Details by ianai on Sunday November 18, 2018 @09:41PM (#18483846)
I think it’s doable with tightly integrated compute nodes, ie specially engineered.
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