Teraflop PC ? Duuuuude...

[cbelt3]

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3198430/c...t-pcs.html

"The Core i9 Extreme Edition i9-7980XE, what Intel calls the first teraflop desktop PC processor ever, will be priced at (gulp!) $1,999 when it ships later this year."

Next Mac Pro ? Pleeeeeease ?

[Speedy]

Out of my price range. I'll have to stay with my i8.

[mikebw]

cbelt3 wrote:

Next Mac Pro ? Pleeeeeease ?

Apple has historically selected the server-class XEON processors for the MacPros, so I would be surprised to see them in the new box.

[anonymouse1]

Betcha next MP includes Optane....

[Lew Zealand]

This is a Xeon slightly reworked and rebranded as a Core i-series chip. They waited for AMD to show it's Ryzen cards (with 3, 5, and 7 branding, just like Intel) and then Intel announced that we've got a 9!

Up next: AMD Spinal Tap Edition— it goes to 11.

[NewtonMP2100]

....flop....til you drop......???

[ztirffritz]

I don't see where that would be useful unless you were doing finite element analysis or DNA coding. What would you need that for? I would be more impressed if they were doing that on GPUs.

[cbelt3]

ztirffritz wrote:
I don't see where that would be useful unless you were doing finite element analysis or DNA coding. What would you need that for? I would be more impressed if they were doing that on GPUs.

I got yer back...
http://www.nvidia.com/object/tesla-p100.html

"The new NVIDIA Pascal™ architecture enables the Tesla P100 to deliver the highest absolute performance for HPC and hyperscale workloads. With more than 21 TeraFLOPS of FP16 performance, Pascal is optimized to drive exciting new possibilities in deep learning applications. Pascal also delivers over 5 and 10 TeraFLOPS of double and single precision performance for HPC "

Seems like GPU is the cracker's tool de jour.

https://sagitta.pw/hardware/