Episode 12 - That'd Be a Pretty Small Truck

AMD Deep Learning Announcements

Instinct announcement
Anandtech coverage
Hacker News Discussion
Linux kernel refusing AMD patches


Intel GPU Internals

Intel gpu design
Expiring Intel-Nvidia patent cross-licensing to expire in 2017 - Ryan Smith


Agner’s CPU Blog - Knights Landing

Kola Superdeep Borehole


Intel x86 documentation has more pages than the 6502 has transistors
Unlocked Intel i3 Processor: i3-7350k
Intel self driving cars
Emulated Intel on arm
Bluetooth 5 now available

“Next year it will work great” - John Gruber


AWS re:Invent 2016

James Hamilton Talk

ASICS for their own switches. @0:23:00

7B transistors
128 ports of 25Gbe = 3.2Tbps (!!!!)


Own silicon for NICs. @0:30:20

Dropping networking to hardware rather than kernel


Storage nodes @0:40:50

2015 design is 1,110 disks/rack
11PB with current-gen HDD
Weighs 2,778 lbs (1,262 kg)
Backblaze Pod


Compute nodes @0:42:00

Half-empty rack-mount case
Optimised for thermal and power efficiency, not density of compute
3-5x less dense than off-the-shelf “cloud” servers




AWS Snowball Edge
AWS Snowmobile
Elastic GPUs

GPUs that can be attached to ANY EC2 instance.
Examples show Windows desktop applications using them.
OpenGL support only.
1, 2, 4, 8GB sizes.
Dolphinics PCIe switches


EC2 F1 Instances w. FPGA

FPGA choo choo




Liberouter Combo cards
Aftershow

Leftpad As A Service