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Talos II / Re: Film on Power9 CPU?

« on: January 27, 2022, 12:11:15 pm »

These are 18-core chips. I didn't see anything when fitting the chip, only on the photo.

I have spare indium pads, since I'll be going the water-cooling route eventually and expected I wouldn't be able to reuse them.

I've not powered it up yet, should do either tomorrow or next week. I guess I'll see with the temps!

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Talos II / Film on Power9 CPU?

« on: January 27, 2022, 06:28:39 am »

I took some photos whilst building up my system and it's only on looking at the photos I noticed what appears to be a film on the CPUs?

I could take the heatsink back off and take a look a guess but wasn't sure the indium pad would still be good after doing so (or can I remove/refit the cooler as often as I like?).

Is it a trick of the light, my imagination, or is there a film that needs removing?

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GPU Compute / Accelerators / Re: AMD OpenCL / ROCm

« on: January 19, 2022, 01:17:51 am »

Thanks for the update. I'm surprised no-one has a working version, but I guess OpenCL/CUDA support is on Nvidia A100 and other server-class cards.

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GPU Compute / Accelerators / Re: GPU options as of December 2021

« on: January 19, 2022, 01:15:09 am »

Thanks - good to know for the W5500. My mobo and CPUs arrived last week and I should have the time soon to start looking at this.

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GPU Compute / Accelerators / Re: AMD OpenCL / ROCm

« on: December 28, 2021, 02:54:57 pm »

Any update on this? OpenCL is on my list of things I'd like to have working.

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GPU Compute / Accelerators / Re: GPU options as of December 2021

« on: December 27, 2021, 03:29:20 am »

I have spare RX580 and W5700 cards to try with. And for the full PPC Nvidia experience I have a Quadro FX4500 from a Quad G5, but I'll stick with the AMD cards!

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Mod Zone / Re: 2U or 3U Heatsink Assembly Wanted

« on: December 24, 2021, 10:54:12 am »

2U HS acquired (and waterblock discussion started).

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Mod Zone / Re: 2U or 3U Heatsink Assembly Wanted

« on: December 22, 2021, 04:41:07 am »

Direct message sent.

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Mod Zone / 2U or 3U Heatsink Assembly Wanted

« on: December 21, 2021, 12:08:00 pm »

I'm looking to buy a 2U or 3U heatsink assembly to sacrifice for building a waterblock, does anyone have one for sale? I'm central Europe so would prefer to buy something already over this side of the Atlantic (not for jingoistic reasons, just that it's less hassle for import duty and taxes).

I already have a couple of 3U HSFs arriving with my system (any day now!) but I'd like something to dismantle and measure.

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Applications and Porting / Re: Clion, VSCode, IDE options?

« on: December 12, 2021, 01:54:04 pm »

VSCode with native compiler integration, step debugging, etc.?

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GPU Compute / Accelerators / GPU options as of December 2021

« on: December 12, 2021, 08:18:21 am »

What's the latest options I have for a GPU for my Talos II? I've a spare Radeon Pro W5700, which I'll try once my mobo and CPUs arrive from Raptor, but if I don't want to spend all my time tinkering, what are my current options? I can still pick up a WX7100 over here (Switzerland) but I'm loath to spend 700 on such an old card (then again, since I want to use my system and not spend all my time getting it running, is it still the best out-of-the-box choice).

I realise AMD is where it's at and the retired RTX 6000s I can grab from work will be of no use.

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Applications and Porting / Clion, VSCode, IDE options?

« on: December 12, 2021, 08:10:37 am »

Hi! My first post... I'm waiting for my Talos II to arrive and have a question regarding IDE options. Having been spoiled with the choice of IDEs on x64 what will my options be on Power? Hopefully I'm not going to be stuck with gcc, gdb and a text editor? The answer to that shouldn't be clang and lldb...

Eclipse looks to prebuilt for IBM's Advance Toolchain, so I'm assuming I can get that running? Any other good choices?