[tech] New clubroom machine and graphics card

[Grahame Bowland]

Eh, might as well get a machine that's interesting to program for.
Lots of cores is where things are going, might be fun figuring how to
get something non-trivial to run nicely on the thing.

On 29 July 2010 15:13, Anil Sharma <maset at ucc.asn.au> wrote:
> I propose getting a number of cores that will actually be used.
>
> make -j kinda counts, except this is going to be a desktop machine,
> not a server.
>
> As I've said many times before, it's your club, do what you want.
> However, I see zero point in going down the surplus cores, lower
> performance route.
>
> Cheers,
> Anil
>
> On 29 July 2010 11:30, Mitch Kelly <mitch at ucc.asn.au> wrote:
>> Price Diff: (2.8Ghz equiv)
>> Hexacore: Price $239.00
>> Core i5 (Quad): $259.00
>>
>> Anil, Are you proposing we spend more on getting Less cores?
>>
>>
>>
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>> To: Anil Sharma
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>> Subject: Re: [tech] New clubroom machine and graphics card
>>
>> I for one intend to execute make -j at some point.
>>
>> Rufus
>>
>> On Thu, 29 Jul 2010, Anil Sharma wrote:
>>
>>> I'm pretty sure quad-cores are still unnecessary for UCC's desktop
>> machines.
>>>
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