Posts by kkreu

Kotkin: Why Trump won

Re: ID

Agreed. They want ID in CA to get a fishing license and now if you are buying ammo. The pretty much want ID for everything in our daily lives but not when voting. Why because they are discriminatory and racist. Where is the logic?

Re: @AC It's not "why", it's "how"

Could not agree more with your comments. I think the biggest thing people do not realize is this is a big FU to the career politicians regardless of parties. We have a Constitution that should be followed but most citizens do not know what it even says. Another thing that almost everyone gets wrong is that they say the US is s a Democracy which is dead wrong. The US is a Republic. What is the difference? It is one small but drastically big difference. A Republic is the sovereignty in the individual person while the Democracy is the sovereignty of the group. This is why we have all these protest going on because these kids were never taught what the US actually is or what the Constitution says.

Kurt

Oracle reveals 32-core, 10 BEEELLION-transistor SPARC M7

Re: Nice!

The Sparc E7 seems nice but if you start to break it down it still falls short to IBM's Power 8 processors. They may have more cores per chip (which can effect software cost) but they have less L3 cache per core. The IBM S824 24-Core server has and L3 bandwidth of 5,407GB/s (~5.28TB/s) and an L2 bandwidth of 4,055GB/s (~3,95TB/s). The S824 is ~230% faster for L3 and ~691% faster for L2.

They do not talk about anything about their I/O or memory performance as well while the S824 has a total memory bandwidth of 384GB/s and the I/O bandwidth of 192GB/s.