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The 2 smaller chiplets are for core complex, the memory controller is on the IO die(the other bigger one) that these 2 CCX share. So there is still one single memory controller, and hence, not NUMA.

But if you look at the launch price 2700 was $300 and 2700X was $330. I think the difference is so small that it drives people who don't want to manually overclock buy the X version to skip the hassle.

Not sure about VC++, but in gcc you can use -march=native to let the compiler compile the code with all instruction sets available on your CPU, I think there is a VC++ equivalent.

As for already compiled binary, depending on how it was compiled it may or may not work of a different CPU. Also the compiler doesn't do the runtime checks.

Let's just say the "customers" are impatient for a good enough solution that is part of a iterative workflow :)

In the specific area I worked on, minutes are borderline tolerable so I didn't think twice before posting. But now that you said it, I totally see how it can go on for days.

I worked on both GA and SA and I think it really depends. There are some effective evolution strategies that can speed up the evolution, combine that with a parallel implementation GA can be really fast. But yeah it can take time to figure out a good evolution strategy and SA can solve some problems just fine.

Genetic algorithms works well when

0) there is not enough data for you to train a NN, and

1) you have a really huge solution space for the problem that you cannot brutal force, and

2) you can encode each solution into a simple ``string'' (chromosome), and

3) the problem you're trying to solve is not very time critical (GA can take seconds to minutes depending on your problem)

Also, GA can actually utilize many CPU or even GPU cores to solve the problem much faster.

That's pretty cool! I knew tech reviewers/writers get free stuff all the time but didn't know sysadmins do to. Thanks for sharing.

May I ask why would Intel send you a server for free or what occupation comes with perks like this?

Unfortunately employment opportunity doesn't help in this case. They are already offered jobs/interns but cannot legally start working (anywhere) because they have to wait for the work permit (OPT) to be approved.

> I'm also curious if it will support PCIe Gen4 since Apple has obviously worked closely with AMD

Probably not. In order to have PCIe 4 working, you have to have CPU support as well as mobo chipset support, neither is there in this machine.

Yeah I was having trouble accessing my Gsuite apps, had a couple of 502s, which led me to check HN. While it doesn't give me 502 now, it's abnormally slow.

I don't own an iPhone and the watch was 2x more expensive than the iPod.