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  1. Re:The true cost of mining by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Nvidia Is Giving Up On the Cryptocurrency Mining Market (latimes.com)

    NVidia were doing R&D, Quadro RTX boards for ray-tracing
    "Prices aren’t cheap, and start at around $2,300 for the Quadro RTX 5000 with 16GB of RAM, the Quadro RTX 6000 rises to $6,300 for 24GB of memory, and finally, the Quadro RTX 8000 is a whopping $10,000 for twice the RAM at 48GB."
    https://www.theregister.co.uk/...
    https://www.nextplatform.com/2...

  2. 500x Faster DGX-2 Costs $400,000! by TheNarrator · · Score: 1 · on Move Over Moore's Law, Make Way For Huang's Law (ieee.org)

    The DGX-2 which is 500x faster than 2 GTX 580s is also 500 times more expensive!
    https://www.nextplatform.com/2...

  3. Re:The decline of the Personal Computer/Desktop by Archangel+Michael · · Score: -1 · on Samsung Ends Intel's 2-decade-plus Reign in Microchips (ap.org)

    workstation and server jobs

    I am of the opinion, that eventually both are going to be impacted. Specifically, that with both, you can get a General Purpose Intel chip, or an ARM with or without custom bits added. The custom bits being application specific enhancements that Intel cannot offer. Here are a few ARM Server articles.

    https://www.nextplatform.com/2...

    https://www.theverge.com/2017/...

    http://www.cavium.com/ThunderX...

    As for Desktops, they are now in our hands, and called Smartphones, and they are all using ARM. Intel may be left owning the dying Windows PC Market soon.

    It is all a matter of perspective, but I see it as the needs of the market are shifting away from WinTel.

  4. Re: It's the future by jon3k · · Score: 1 · on Should Your Company Switch To Microservices? (cio.com)

    but smaller customers that moved to the "cloud" and have experienced too many failures, legal issues or increased scrutiny are scaling back what is effectively "shared hosting" back to self-hosting or at least colocating their own 'cloud'.

    I don't think the numbers back up the claim. If you look at the massive growth I think you find exactly the opposite. I'm sure there are anecdotal stories but the stats just don't bear that out.

    Has anyone honestly ever been happy with the headaches of moving to Office365 or AWS (beyond the higher ups)?

    No point giving you anecdotal examples, I think we just have to look at the numbers.

    Do you have a source to back up your assertion that these customers are leaving these platforms in any significant numbers?

  5. Re:One word by epine · · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: Why Are There No Huge Leaps Forward In CPU/GPU Power?

    Even flash memory improvements seem to be slowing down, but that may be that demand is huge and increasing.

    No, charge storage scales even worse than switching—and everyone agrees. Flash has recently been kept on life support by staggering efforts in bit-error management.

    Thus all the research funds right now (ST-MRAM, carbon nanotube NRAM, STT-RAM, CBRAM, not to mention Intel's new TMium) are being funneled into bulk resistive technologies, such as the chalcogenides.

    The charge bottle is dead. Long live the fickle dendrite!

    The problem with silicon was written about extensively in 2016 (this only a decade after the frequency free-lunch had already ended, and five years after the power-scaling free-lunch started being served up in Continental-breakfast portion sizes).

    TSMC Plans New Fab for 3nm
    Focus Shifts To Architectures
    ITRS roadmap predicts end of process miniaturisation by 2021
    Transistors Could Stop Shrinking in 2021
    Alchemy Can't Save Moore's Law
    Will 5nm Happen?
    TSMC will begin 10nm production this year, claims 5nm by 2020

    TSMC remains strangely bullish, but you also need to realize that line size is not what it used to be. It used to be they pretty much shrunk the entire lithography. Now they shrink what they can shrink, and then define the new lithography based on the skinniest resulting body part (problem: what's left to measure after the wrist? answer: a Taiwanese wrist).

  6. Re: Most depressing thing I've read all week by griffincalme · · Score: 1 · on Overclocker Pushes Intel Core i7-7700K Past 7GHz Using Liquid Nitrogen (hothardware.com)

    Personally, I'm not worried at all about the stagnation of clock speeds. GHz aren't everything, instructions per clock have greatly increased even if clock speed hasn't. This means that a 4GHz Skylake single thread is much faster on the same task when compared to a 4GHz Sandy bridge single thread. See chart: https://www.nextplatform.com/w...

  7. Introducing another Vapor Super Computer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1 · on $30M Stampede 2 Supercomputer To Provide 18 Petaflops of Power To Researchers Nationwide (techcrunch.com)

    Since TFA is about a Super Computer that has yet to be built, please allow me to introduce two links to another Super Computer that has yet to be built

    http://www.nextplatform.com/20...

    http://www.nextplatform.com/20...

  8. Introducing another Vapor Super Computer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1 · on $30M Stampede 2 Supercomputer To Provide 18 Petaflops of Power To Researchers Nationwide (techcrunch.com)

    Since TFA is about a Super Computer that has yet to be built, please allow me to introduce two links to another Super Computer that has yet to be built

    http://www.nextplatform.com/20...

    http://www.nextplatform.com/20...