Subj : same as it ever was
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Sat May 12 2018 02:28:08

Hallo Maurice!

 MK> Note that I didn't bother word wrapping the above quote

It got buggered up somewhere between here and there.

 MK> Double the penguins on bootup as well.

That is nice.  I vote we double it again with an eight core, two threads per 
core, Xeon D series, which if I do the math correctly adds up to 16 penguins on 
bootup.  If we wait until next year we might evn find a suitable 10nm jobber.  
I think those will be called Ice Lake and noticed there is already 
optimizations for them in gcc-8.  ;-)

 MK> Also to your advantage is uptime in a power outage given power
 MK> consumption from a 12VDC backup battery.

If that is our only concern then I believe the Rock64 we are contemplating 
adding to the mix here would most definetly win in that category.  Mind you 
only four penguins on bootup but then again so is this one ... not to mention 
at far greater power consumption ... nevermind purchase price and runtime 
costs.  Offhand I think the Rock64 might be a winner with 4G of DDR3, which is 
exactly what this machine is limited to.

On the other hand, 16 penguins on bootup with 128G of ECC DDR4 is EXTREMELY 
tempting despite the fact that we can't afford it.  Given that, power 
consumption and runtime costs are moot points.  :::sigh:::

Het leven is goed,
Maurice

.... Huil niet om mij, ik heb vi.
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