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Re: New Mac Pro Tech Specs

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Post by peignoir » Fri, Sep 27, 2019, 2:53 AM UTC

I wish I could afford these, but I’m really curious to test a hackintosh with threadreaper 3 following what they did on Linus tech tips with a virtualized PC and Mac running at the same time on the same monitor https://youtu.be/EozeSDeV3Vo

Re: New Mac Pro Tech Specs

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Post by loeg » Fri, Sep 27, 2019, 2:55 AM UTC

lliamander wrote: post #68

dsalso wrote: post #65

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6 core Xeon, 64GB RAM, some builds take 4hrs....

Holy moly. What language, and roughly how many lines of code?

C++, and N > 5.

Re: New Mac Pro Tech Specs

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Post by hartator » Fri, Sep 27, 2019, 2:55 AM UTC

I like it. You pay the Apple tax for sure but the design makes sense and is nice. I wonder thought when they are gonna to announce the new MacBook 16”. It has been rumored a lot.

Re: New Mac Pro Tech Specs

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Post by m0zg » Fri, Sep 27, 2019, 2:56 AM UTC

Marsymars wrote: post #130

hinkley wrote: post #116

This thing is pulling almost 12 amps by itself. Add a couple monitors and hopefully you have recent vintage wiring in your office...

Presumably that's with the dual-GPU, 28-core processor model under full load (and the MPX module drawing its full 500W, among other peripherals). An office with this kind of workload is going to require robust wiring regardless of which particular workstations are installed.

And robust air conditioning, too. Source: worked in an office full of dual-GPU deep learning workstations. We had to bring in those gigantic rental portable conditioners in the summer, and re-do pretty much all of the existing wiring in the office, because electricians who installed the first iteration could not conceive of having two dozen ~900W workstations cranking away 24x7x365 in a single open office plan.

Re: New Mac Pro Tech Specs

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Post by crazygringo » Fri, Sep 27, 2019, 2:57 AM UTC

baroffoos wrote: post #100

chrisseaton wrote: post #62

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These devices use so little charge that they basically need no charging. You can literally do it once a month for a couple of minutes. The justification is not having any messy cables on my desk, where space is a premium and mess distracts me.

The problem is you forget every time so once a month you are in the middle of doing something and you have to stop, turn your mouse upside down and then wait.

You get a "low battery" warning that pops up when it's got a day or two of charge left so it's fine.

Don't need to stop anything, just plug it in at your next lunch break or when you leave for the day.

It's just not really an issue as far as I can tell.

Re: New Mac Pro Tech Specs

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Post by m0zg » Fri, Sep 27, 2019, 2:57 AM UTC

And all of that will be pretty laughable compared to the stuff AMD is releasing later this year.

Re: New Mac Pro Tech Specs

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Post by Pmop » Fri, Sep 27, 2019, 2:57 AM UTC

peignoir wrote: post #131

I wish I could afford these, but I’m really curious to test a hackintosh with threadreaper 3 following what they did on Linus tech tips with a virtualized PC and Mac running at the same time on the same monitor https://youtu.be/EozeSDeV3Vo

Hackintosh allows you to have OS X on better hardware but these days it's really unsafe, due to the possibility of Apple going full ARM in the near future, dropping all the support for x86.

Re: New Mac Pro Tech Specs

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Post by glandium » Fri, Sep 27, 2019, 2:58 AM UTC

mbroncano wrote: post #34

thrower123 wrote: post #27

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That would be fine if Bluetooth worked... I swear, the old IR wireless keyboards and mice were more reliable.

I’ve been using exclusively BT keyboards and mice for 10+ years ... what’s exactly wrong with them?

I have a BT trackpad. It becomes flaky when there's large amounts of 2.4GHz WiFi traffic.

Re: New Mac Pro Tech Specs

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Post by dragontamer » Fri, Sep 27, 2019, 2:59 AM UTC

m0zg wrote: post #136

And all of that will be pretty laughable compared to the stuff AMD is releasing later this year.

The AMD Vega II appears to be a higher-end Radeon VII except with 32GB of HBM2 (instead of 16GB like the Radeon VII). So not really. AMD VegaII Duo (the dual-Vega II) is going to be far more powerful than anything AMD releases in the near future. 64GB of HBM2, 28+ TFlops single precision, etc. etc.

CPU-wise, probably. Xeon W 28-core is still quite good from Intel however, with AVX 512 support and such.

Re: New Mac Pro Tech Specs

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Post by Marsymars » Fri, Sep 27, 2019, 3:00 AM UTC

xuki wrote: post #117

kbumsik wrote: post #110

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I don't have an HEDT but an outdated Haswell i5 laptop (not an Ultra Low Voltage model at least, so it's quite fast). Last year I spotted a bug in Firefox and I though it was time to put a line in the contribution section in my resume. The contribution experience was a nightmare because a full build of Firefox took 3 hrs and running the entire testing framework took 4 hrs, though it turned out that I needed to run on…

Maybe spin up an instance on GCE or EC2 and remote into it? If you live anywhere near a data center it should be under 50ms delay. Your time is certainly worth more than whatever the cost of the instance.

> If you live anywhere near a data center it should be under 50ms delay.

Hm, I guess I don't live anywhere near a data center. 1M+ North American city, but lowest ping to any AWS/GCE region is ~130ms.