Miscellaneous Tech News
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@obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
What's the best iPhone you can get for the least $?
That's a weird question. Because basically they get better as you pay more. It's not like a big matrix where some have high value and some have low and price is all over the place, like you'd find between ten different vendors.
They make like four phones, each with more features for more money. So it's a linear graph with more money for better, less more for lesser.
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@obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
What's the best iPhone you can get for the least $?
The value of the previous edition drops pretty sharply after the new ones are released particularly on the used market. That is probably the break point in the performance/cost curve.
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Remote Desktop web client now generally available
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Enterprise-Mobility-Security/Remote-Desktop-web-client-now-generally-available/ba-p/250588 -
Today, we are announcing the general availability of the Remote Desktop web client for Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2019 Preview. With a few simple PowerShell cmdlets, the client can be added to an existing Remote Desktop Services deployment, side by side with the RDWeb role. This first release of the web client contains a core set of features to get you started in providing a simple, no-install, consistent cross-platform solution to end users who don’t need some of the more advanced features from a native client. The following features are currently available:
- Access desktops and apps published through a feed
- Single sign-on
- Print to PDF file
- Audio out
- Full screen and dynamic resolution
- Copy/paste text using Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V
- Keyboard and mouse input support
- Localized in 18 languages
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That's pretty amazing. I can't wait to get to try that out.
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@scottalanmiller that will be a good feature..
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This caught my attention in the setup guide...
Isn't it almost always better for a company to do per user licenses? Especially with folks having multiple devices these days.
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@dafyre said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
This caught my attention in the setup guide...
Isn't it almost always better for a company to do per user licenses? Especially with folks having multiple devices these days.
Almost always better, yes. There are unique cases for the device licensing, but it is generally way more limiting than it is worth.
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Amazon AWs adds Next Gen T3
What’s new with T3 instances?
- Up to 30% better price performance over T2
- Pricing starts at just $0.0052 per hour ($3.796 per month)
- T3 instances start in Unlimited mode by default to avoid application degradation if the instance exceeds its available CPU credits
- Custom high frequency Intel
Xeon Scalable Processors featuring the new Intel AVX-512 instructions
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https://www.tweaktown.com/news/63182/amds-next-gen-epyc-64c-128t-7nm-performance-teased/index.html
128 threads in a single CPU. Looks like we really are quickly headed for single CPU systems being the standard.
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@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.tweaktown.com/news/63182/amds-next-gen-epyc-64c-128t-7nm-performance-teased/index.html
128 threads in a single CPU. Looks like we really are quickly headed for single CPU systems being the standard.
We've had that for years now.
The T4 Yosemite Falls did 64 threads per CPU by 2011. And the T5 with 128 threads released in 2012, and was available in production servers by 2013. So a full half decade of 128 threads per CPU by this point.
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Currently, Oracle and Fujitsu both make 256 thread processors that replaced the T5 in their lineup.
The T5 was replaced by the M6, which did only 96 threads, but with vastly higher performance than the T5 threads. The M series was just faster than the T series.
But the M6 is old, as well. The M7 replaced it in 2015 and does 256 threads per CPU.
The M8 replaced the M7 in 2017, but did not add new threads, only made per thread performance better.
Expectation is that an M9 will likely be out in a year or a little more.
So we are currently on the fourth generation of 128+ thread processors.
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IBM Power 8 hit 96 threads per processor in 2014. The Power 9 replaced that in 2015. Power 9 does 192 threads per processor in SMT8 mode. So that's three years of quite a bit more than AMD is looking at, rumored, for next year.
The Power 10 is due in two years. And it states a key goal is to dramatically increase core count. So we are expecting 384+ threads on that one.
Not that what AMD is doing isn't impressive. Just don't think that high thread counts are an AMD thing. AMD is in next to last place on that. It only seems like AMD is doing something interesting because Intel is so spectacularly far behind.
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Also forgot, even the ARM RISC processors hit 128 threads a little (very little) bit ago. The Cavium ThunderX2 is 128 thread count and available today.
It's pretty shocking how far ahead all processor families are (in terms of thread count) over the AMD64 family.
However, it's interesting to also then say how much this tends to show how little thread count really matters to most workloads.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.tweaktown.com/news/63182/amds-next-gen-epyc-64c-128t-7nm-performance-teased/index.html
128 threads in a single CPU. Looks like we really are quickly headed for single CPU systems being the standard.
We've had that for years now.
The T4 Yosemite Falls did 64 threads per CPU by 2011. And the T5 with 128 threads released in 2012, and was available in production servers by 2013. So a full half decade of 128 threads per CPU by this point.
And I actually saw systems back in the 1990s with 2000+ CPU in a single system. Doesn't mean they were mainstream, which is the real difference that's happening.
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@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.tweaktown.com/news/63182/amds-next-gen-epyc-64c-128t-7nm-performance-teased/index.html
128 threads in a single CPU. Looks like we really are quickly headed for single CPU systems being the standard.
We've had that for years now.
The T4 Yosemite Falls did 64 threads per CPU by 2011. And the T5 with 128 threads released in 2012, and was available in production servers by 2013. So a full half decade of 128 threads per CPU by this point.
And I actually saw systems back in the 1990s with 2000+ CPU in a single system. Doesn't mean they were mainstream, which is the real difference that's happening.
Epyc isn't particularly mainstream. It's a "potential, future, niche", and the niche is the same as the others. Power, Sparc, and ARM are all widely available. You have can just order and deploy them. Most are available for cloud computing publicly, too.
Epyc might share an architecture with more popular processors, and is a great system, but isn't super popular, at least not yet. I doubt it is selling more than Power is, for example. You are talking a future release, at the top end, of a niche processor. And I'm comparing to the other top end, niche processors. Almost no one is going to deploy 128 thread single proc Epycs, it's more cores than most companies can use, while having huge licensing implications.
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Microsoft Announce Enhanced Version of Ubuntu 18.04 for Hyper-V
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Microsoft Announce Enhanced Version of Ubuntu 18.04 for Hyper-V
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/09/hyper-v-ubuntu-1804-windows-integrationYeah that's great for devs or others wanting to run it as a VM on their Win10 desktop.
But it's not something I'd ever run as a server on Hyper-V Server.
