Pincount Podcast

Episode 12 - That'd Be a Pretty Small Truck

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  • AMD Deep Learning Announcements
    • Instinct announcement
    • Anandtech coverage
    • Hacker News Discussion
    • Linux kernel refusing AMD patches
    • Intel GPU Internals
      • Intel gpu design
      • Expiring Intel-Nvidia patent cross-licensing to expire in 2017 - Ryan Smith
      • Agner’s CPU Blog - Knights Landing
        • Kola Superdeep Borehole
        • Intel x86 documentation has more pages than the 6502 has transistors
        • Unlocked Intel i3 Processor: i3-7350k
        • Intel self driving cars
        • Emulated Intel on arm
        • Bluetooth 5 now available
          • “Next year it will work great” - John Gruber
          • AWS re:Invent 2016
            • James Hamilton Talk
              • ASICS for their own switches. @0:23:00
                • 7B transistors
                • 128 ports of 25Gbe = 3.2Tbps (!!!!)
                • Own silicon for NICs. @0:30:20
                  • Dropping networking to hardware rather than kernel
                  • Storage nodes @0:40:50
                    • 2015 design is 1,110 disks/rack
                    • 11PB with current-gen HDD
                    • Weighs 2,778 lbs (1,262 kg)
                    • Backblaze Pod
                    • Compute nodes @0:42:00
                      • Half-empty rack-mount case
                      • Optimised for thermal and power efficiency, not density of compute
                      • 3-5x less dense than off-the-shelf “cloud” servers
                      • AWS Snowball Edge
                      • AWS Snowmobile
                      • Elastic GPUs
                        • GPUs that can be attached to ANY EC2 instance.
                        • Examples show Windows desktop applications using them.
                        • OpenGL support only.
                        • 1, 2, 4, 8GB sizes.
                        • Dolphinics PCIe switches
                        • EC2 F1 Instances w. FPGA
                          • FPGA choo choo
                          • Liberouter Combo cards
                          • Aftershow
                            • Leftpad As A Service
                              • ...more
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                              Pincount PodcastBy Iain Wallace and Douglas Shearer
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