mdriftmeyer

About

Username
mdriftmeyer
Joined
Visits
234
Last Active
Roles
member
Points
2,949
Badges
2
Posts
7,503

Reactions

1.1KLike0Dislike188Informative

  • Elon Musk uses iPhone email bug to illustrate the importance of software innovation

    mdriftmeyermdriftmeyer
    sflocal said:
    I admire what Musk does.  He's a rockstar in my book... but whatever Musk.  Maybe it's "fresh blood" engineers that are breaking the software?  Maybe it's not iOS that was buggy, but maybe identified a problem with Musk's email system?  Lot's of assumptions being made here.

    Fresh blood is necessary in every industry.  Experience, especially of those that have been in the industry a while is even more preferred as far as I'm concerned. 

    He's an overrated ass hat.
    cgWerksd_2tmayArloTimetravelerStrangeDaysjony0SpamSandwichwatto_cobra

  • ARM Mac Pro coming sooner rather than later, says Jean-Louis Gassee

    mdriftmeyermdriftmeyer
    knowitall said:
    loopless said:
    Anyone who works in or develops HPC software cringes at this.  Sure it's likely you can make an ARM chip with the performance of high-end Xeons, but the world of HPC software is a million years away from XCode app development where you can flip a switch to build for a new architecture. There are so many bespoke libraries (e.g. Intel MKL) and years of optimization that have gone into getting HPC code to run fast on AVX Xeons.

    Apple is a bit-player in HPC with the Mac Pro because of their 'war' with nVIDIA ( cutting off access to the compute power of their massively parallel GPUs)  - it would just sideline them even more if they went ARM.
    GC (Grand Central) is Apples answer, as parallelism is the answer to supercomputer power.
    Works fine with XCode.


    Grand Central works as well as the Backplane and interprocessing designs of the CPU architecture. In short, it's not a panacea. Slap two TR or EPYC CPUs in today's Mac Pro and you've got 128 Cores/ 256 threads that nothing ARM designs with it's energy footprint limitations will ever touch. Zen 3 arrives this Fall. Sorry, but no, Apple won't invest heavy resources for a small market product. They'll decide between continuing with Intel, or finally move forward on AMD Zen.

    RDNA 2.0 is about to come out and it lays to waste the GPGPUs custom designed by AMD already. The rational mind says Zen 3/RDNA 2.0/Afterburner 2.0 in the next Mac Pro.
    tmaywatto_cobra

  • ARM Mac Pro coming sooner rather than later, says Jean-Louis Gassee

    mdriftmeyermdriftmeyer
    And it's gonna run BeOS. He's full of crap.
    watto_cobra

  • Tim Cook optimistic that coronavirus is getting under control in China

    mdriftmeyermdriftmeyer
    Conglomerates aren't relying on Government records for stats. When your business employs over 500k workers in China you get great data to make projections and then compare those to the rest of said country.

    WHO is focused on the globe knowing that China is well under way in recovery. They're focused on what if the airborn vectors spread to other regions and how humans build up antibodies and spread will be different based on a variety of differences between China and the rest of the globe.
    SolibshankGeorgeBMaclollivermuthuk_vanalingam

  • HomeKit support lands on Amazon's Eero mesh routers

    mdriftmeyermdriftmeyer
    I doubt Apple purchased Intel's IP just to beef up it's 5G work. Apple most certainly is looking at adoption rates of HomeKit and will release their own stuff. When that happens people on rumors sites will whine and complain about monopolistic Apple once again.
    watto_cobra