Catching up on a few days' of tech news...

(still on this cheap laptop, now that I have the benefit of zram)

anandtech.com/show/14070/the-memblaze-pblaze5-c916-ssd-review I'd love to play with one of these.

> In addition to its flexible power management, the PBlaze5 supports several of the more advanced NVMe features that are often left out on entry-level enterprise drives. The drive supports 128 NVMe queues, so all but the largest servers will be able to assign one queue to each CPU core, allowing IO to be performed without core to core locking or synchronization. Many older enterprise NVMe SSDs we have tested are limited to 32 queues, which is less than optimal for our 36-core testbed.

I wonder how many queues consumer NVMe SSDs support...

Intel's old SSD 750 Series does 32.

Toshiba OCZ RD400: 7 queues.

Intel SSD 600p: 8 queues.

tomshardware.com/reviews/…

GeForce GTX 1660: 1408 CUDA cores in 22 of 24 SMs on Turing TU116 @ 1530-1785 MHz; 6 GB GDDR5 @ 8 Gbps on 192-bit bus; 5.0 TFLOPS FP32; TSMC CLN12FFN process, 120W TDP.

Not too sure why the original message had GFLOPS and not TFLOPS...

So... we lose only a slight amount of shader performance but memory speeds see a serious cut.

The higher clock frequency mostly makes up for the two fewer SMs, but the memory bandwidth will hurt performance more noticeably, especially at high resolutions. This is best seen as a competitor to the RX 590 for 1080p gaming.

I would not be surprised if the majority of the cost difference from the Ti card is due to the memory. Slower 8 Gbps GDDR5 memory is probably much cheaper than GDDR6, especially when 10+ Gbps GDDR5X was broadly used at the high end of the Pascal lineup.

RIP this guy's avatar electronics.stackexchange.com/users/202270/edgar-brown

probably G+

Ooh. That is going to be 'fun'

Huh...

I wonder if I have a G+ avatar anywhere.

Most G+ logons would be just Google now... right?!

@ThatBrazilianGuy i have that! would love to race against some of you

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Patch panel or keystone? flips coin

hm

where?

patchpanel makes sense for centralised wrangling

keystone makes sense for rooms

This hallway thingymabob

I've only got 5 to terminate, so it's much of a muchness

Haven't yet decided whether to go the full hog and buy a mini comms cupboard (this CableMoneky one is nice but also £87 quid), or just mount a panel on a couple of rails / mounts screwed to the wall (± boxed in with some wood)

On the one hand the keystones have the advantage that I can finally terminate the cables lying in a tangled mess in my hallway and decide what to do later, and the disadvantage that I probably would just leave them in that state for another $ages ;-P

Keystones it is!

@bertieb "8U" Looks like it might fit, what... 4? And that's if you stand them on their ends.

@MichaelFrank Small aye but I don't really intend on putting much in there :)

a friend sent me this:

why would they use VMs for this?

Cloud servers.

roar

Five hours of baseball photography.

even then you'd hit contention issues though, right?