[Beowulf] who needs Spectre when you have hardware to help

2018-10-04 Thread jimlux
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Re: [Beowulf] The Walmart Compute Node?

2007-11-09 Thread jimlux
Quoting Larry Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on Fri 09 Nov 2007 06:42:54 AM PST: Robert G. Brown wrote: On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Jim Lux wrote: In general, a N GHz processor will be poorer in a flops/Watt sense than a 2N GHz processor. Well that just isn't so. It seems pretty clear from IBM

Re: [Beowulf] The Walmart Compute Node?

2007-11-09 Thread jimlux
Quoting "Jeffrey B. Layton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on Sat 10 Nov 2007 08:49:01 AM PST: andrew holway wrote: Sod all this tin pot stuff. Buying all this crap, sticking it in a rack and stringing it together with wire aint difficult. Making the damn software work is the tricky bit. Get loads of

Re: [Beowulf] The Walmart Compute Node?

2007-11-09 Thread jimlux
Quoting "Robert G. Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on Fri 09 Nov 2007 04:49:13 AM PST: On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Jim Lux wrote: preserve ALL our words, useful or not, long after we shuffle off this mortal coil> from zero to one or vice versa). So, in general, a 2N GHz processor consumes less tha