Anton

“On a chip for chip basis running the Desmond code, the Anton 3 chip is around 20X faster than the Nvidia A100,” explained Butts. “That is not to pick on Nvidia. The A100 is a tremendously capable compute engine. Rather, this illustrates the tremendous benefit we achieve from specialization. As a point of historical interest, a single chip Anton 3 supports almost the same maximum capacity as the Anton 1 supercomputer with 512 nodes. Moreover, it is actually faster over most of that range while consuming just one-fiftieth of the power.”

https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/08/25/the-huge-payoff-of-extreme-co-design-in-molecular-dynamics/ 

Anton on kiinnostava supertietokone.  

http://matt-welsh.blogspot.com/2010/02/david-shaws-anton-supercomputer.html

Fedora 34 Linux ja HP Laserjet 1200

Asensin HP Laserjet 1200 printterin Fedora 34:ään ja ei meinannut toimia. Sain sen toimimaan HP Laserjet 1200 - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.3.4 Simplified ajurilla. Se löytyy sieltä tulostimen asetuksista hae tietokannasta. Kokeilin kannasta paljon ajureita, kokeilin niistä muutamaa ja sain tuon toimimaan. Ainakin oma kone piti käynnistää uuudestaan; sitten toimi, en tiedä mikä oli vikana.

Kevyt Linux

Itsellä löytyy kaapista kolme tietokone vanhusta. Kahdessa niissä on Intelin Atom -prosessori, toisessa yksi ydin ja toisessa kaksi. Muistia on muistaakseni 1Gt. Kolmannessa koneessa on Intelin Pentium M, vanha IBM Thinkpad X31. Ajattelin, että pitäisi kokeilla jotain kevyt Linuxia niissä. Eihän niillä paljoa pysty mitään tekemään mutta aikanaan IBM oli kallis. Siinä on titanium runko ja kaikki.

http://www.notebookreview.com/notebookreview/ibm-thinkpad-x31-review-pics-specs/

Tukevasti tehty ja muutenkin ihan kiva laite mutta nykystandardein alitehoinen (512Mt muistia). Latasin AntiX:n koneelle, pitää vielä ehtiä polttaa se DVD:lle, että voi kokeilla. IBM:hän ei enää valmista tavallisia tietokoneita ollenkaan. Myi sen Lenovolle, yksi Lenovon kannettava löytyy kanssa, sekin on hidas.

 

"The chip, designed by an IBM team headquartered in Poughkeepsie, New York in partnership with the IBM Research AI Hardware Center in Albany, New York, which created the underlying technology, may be able to identify, quickly, fraudulent activity when consumer credit cards are misused or abused, the company described in a blog post.

“With Telum, financial institutions will be able to move from a fraud detection to a fraud prevention posture, catching instances of fraud while the transaction is still ongoing,” the company stated in its blog post.

The chip will be manufactured by Samsung, a company spokesperson told WRAL TechWire in an interview, and the research and development process took about three years. The chip will be a part of what IBM called in a press release a “Telum-based system,” available at some point during 2022, according to the company.

Other use cases for the chip technology, contained within a Powerpoint presentation shared with WRAL TechWire by IBM, include potential customer behavior prediction, supply chain optimization, anomaly detection to enhace security, and workload placement.

https://www.wraltechwire.com/2021/08/23/ibm-releases-details-on-its-telum-processor-which-includes-an-on-chip-ai-accelerator/

IBM tekee vieläkin prosessoreita.

Our goal is to continue improving AI hardware compute efficiency by 2.5 times every year for a decade, achieving 1,000 times better performance by 2029.

 The chip contains eight processor cores, running with more than 5GHz clock frequency, optimized for the demands of enterprise-class workloads. The completely redesigned cache and chip-interconnection infrastructure provides 32MB cache per core. The chip also contains 22 billion transistors and 19 miles of wire on 17 metal layers.

https://www.research.ibm.com/blog/telum-processor

Linux - 30 vuotta

Happy Birthday, Linux. At 30 years old, you have made quite a reputation for yourself. Having spirited the rise of open-source software, you have turned the world of proprietary computing upside down.

https://www.technewsworld.com/story/30-years-of-linux-history-told-via-distros-87239.html

Linux on 30 vuotta vanha! Onnea!