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Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse - PS3
Release Date:November 20, 2012
Also on:PlayStation 3 Xbox 360
Viewing USA:Also on UK.
Family Guy Back To The Multiverse is a first person shooter, and with the popularity of the first person shooter. Unfortunately the issue of controls, aiming, and maneuverability will leave a first person shooter fan longing for so much more.
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Family Guy Back To The Multiverse for the PS3 follows two of America's favorite adult cartoon characters, Brian and Stewie, as they return to the Multiverse featured in the fan favorite episode season Eight, 'Road to the Multiverse'. The video game features all the shows favorites such as Peter, Lois, Quagmire, and yes even Meg. The game follows from the shows famous sense of crude humor, and implements many of the same stylistic choices as the television show, most notably, the nonsensical flash backs that Family Guy is famous for.
As with most titles styled after a hit show or movie, approach with caution. The sad truth of most titles released after T.V. shows and movies is that they are often underdeveloped in many ways, while their are exceptions to this rule, this is unfortunately not one. Like many games of this sort it is developed quickly with less time and energy focused into game development. Most game companies, and Activision is no exception, rely on the name to essentially market itself. Quality seems to take a back set to the fact that it is Family Guy, and Activision knows that, that means it will sell regardless of quality.
What this game lacks is care and effort that make a good game. The controls are clunky and even frustrating to deal with at times, and the interface is totally underwhelming. All put together the game feels sloppy and totally unrefined from what most gamers set the bar at. The question is however, "what were you really expecting?", this game is marketed toward Family Guy fans, not video game players. Video game fans will find this game poorly made at best, and unplayable at worst.
Family Guy fans can however, rejoice. If your primary interest in the game is the fact that it is Family Guy, it does Family Guy justice. Everything you know and love about the cartoon is present here. Nothing should put off a true Family Guy die hard from playing, and enjoying this game, that is, unless they are also an avid video game player. The game has all the same quips and potty humor you expect, and if you're a fan you can expect to laugh and have some fun watching the cutscenes.
Credit to the game designers for taking a somewhat unique approach the the gaming style, but all points detracted for it's execution. Family Guy Back To The Multiverse is a first person shooter, and with the popularity of the first person shooter it almost seems common sense to make this game as such to attract a wider range of players. Unfortunately the issue of controls, aiming, and maneuverability will leave a first person shooter fan longing for so much more. The game is also fairly short, again targeting the fan, and casual gamer, it has little content and much of it is repetitive and fails to be engaging. With a few hours of dedicated play story mode can be conquered leaving only split screen two player mode there after, that's right, a first person shooter with no online play.


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When Frans Nieuwstadt, a distinguished Dutch meteorologist, engineer, editor and professor, died in 2005, his obituary recounted seminal events in his accomplished life. Among the experiences worthy of mention: Nieuwstadt had studied under the celebrated professor, Henk Tennekes, and along with other colleagues had been instrumental in convincing Tennekes to return to Europe in 1978 to become director of research at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute and later chairman of the august Scientific Advisory Committee of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts.
Henk Tennekes, in ways both personal and professional, has touched an extraordinary number of lives in his own distinguished career, among academics and laymen alike. He is loved for his popular 1997 book, The Simple Science of Flight From Insects to Jumbo Jets, and for his scholarly 1972 work, A First Course in Turbulence, a classic that logs more than 2,000 citations on Google Scholar. His provocative 1986 speech, "No Forecast Is Complete Without A Forecast of Forecast Skill," led to the now-common discipline of "ensemble forecasting" and spurred "multi-model forecasting." Scientists today continue to wrestle with the fundamental critiques that he first presented.
Tennekes became more than an inspiration for his students and a model for other scientists, however. He also became an object lesson in the limits of scientific inquiry. Because his critiques of climate science ran afoul of the orthodoxy required by the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, he was forced to leave. Lesser scientists, seeing that even a man of Tennekes's reputation was not free to voice dissent, learned their lesson. Ever since, most scientists who harbour doubts about climate science bite their tongues and keep their heads down.
Tennekes, more than any other individual, challenged the models that climate scientists were constructing, saying models could never replicate the complexity of the real world. What was needed was a different approach to science, one that recognized inherent limits in such scientific tools and aimed less to regulate the environment.In a landmark speech to the American Meteorological Society in 1986, he argued that meteorology was poised to be the first of the post- Newtonian sciences because it was "at odds with the mainstream of the scientific enterprise of the last 300 years. One goal of science is to control nature, but we know we cannot control the weather. The goal of science is prediction, but we stand in front of the limits of predictability." Meteorology, in other words, would be the first scientific discipline to hit this brick wall. As Tennekes argued, modern theory "unequivocally predicts that no amount of improvement in the quality of the observation network or in the power of computers will improve the average useful forecast range by more than a few days."
Since Tennekes' speech, a host of scientists have sought to extend the bounds of modelling. They have seen success, but only on the scale Tennekes predicted. In a paper presented in 2003, a team of European scientists detailed advances in modelling science. "Since the day, almost 20 years ago, in which Henk Tennekes stated … that 'no forecast is complete without a forecast of the forecast skill,' the demand for numerical forecasting tools ... has been ever increasing," they said, explaining efforts to make modelling reliable beyond a three- to four-day period. Thanks to the intense efforts of a new generation of climate modellers, modelling capability has advanced in some instances by 12 to 36 hours, in others by several days. To extend the bounds further, the paper announced a major new research initiative, designed to bring the forecasting discipline to the 120-hour range.
Climate modelling is the basis of forecasts of climate change. Yet this modelling, Tennekes believes, has little utility, and "there is no chance at all that the physical sciences can produce a universally accepted scientific basis for policy measures concerning climate change." Moreover, he states: "There exists no sound theoretical framework for climate predictability studies."
Not surprisingly, Tennekes abhors the dogma that he feels characterizes the climatechange establishment, and the untoward role of climate science in public-policy making. "We only understand 10% of the climate.


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AMD Evolving Fast to Survive in the Server Market Jungleby Johan De Gelas on 6/18/2013 6:00 AM EST
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coburn_c - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - linkAMD is no less than doomed if this is all they've got. I say this with sadness and regret.... and anger. There are definitely a few former CEOs who deserve to be publicly beaten.
They doomed themselves when they chose to leverage half the company for ATI just before the second great depression and they doubled down on defeat when they sold off their greatest asset: their fabs. Then, just to seal the deal, they decided that the longer pipelines and greater complexity that had almost ruined Intel the decade before would save them. Without in-house fabs to achieve the efficiency. Without the talent to realize the vision. Without floating point units... Reply
JohanAnandtech - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - linkI have to disagree. With Ivy Bridge EP Xeons out soon, the Warsaw product is probably too little, too late. However, the Seattle and Berlin CPUs can carve out their niches. Don't underestimate the micro server market. It is similar to x86 server market back in the late 90ies. It started small and in a niche, but it quickly grew upwards. Reply
gostan - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - linkNot underestimating the micro server market here. just that I don't have high hope on AMD to execute their roadmap in a timely fashion. Reply
TheCountess - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - linkactually they hit all their launch targets in recent years, even if not always the performance they were hoping for. Reply
raghu78 - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - linkits frustrating to not see Steamroller based 2P and 4P Opterons. AMD has failed badly in execution. The original Bulldozer was released in late Q3 and Q4 2011 . the Piledriver updates happened in Q4 2012. Steamroller based updates should have been released by Q4 2013 or Q1 2014. but now thats not going to be the case. AMD's execution of big core based products has been miserable.
In Feb 2012 during the Financial Analyst Day , AMD talked of Kaveri being their 2013 APU. By late 2012 it was clear that Steamroller based Kaveri was delayed. So AMD cooked up a mild Trinity update called Richland and marketed it as the new 2013 APU. Whats worse is AMD is hit badly by Globalfoundries screwing up their 28nm bulk process.
The only hope is that AMD go direct to Excavator for the real next big core based Opteron 2P / 4P products with a DDR4 based new platform in late 2014 or Q1 2015. The question is what process will AMD be using. AMD needs a 20nm process based Excavator product to have any chance against Haswell EP / EX.
Intel has no competition till late 2014 in the traditional IT server market. AMD 's problem is they are at the mercy of foundries for process tech , which are atleast 1 generation behind Intel and even more if you count features like FINFET. Intel's transistor performance is unmatched. So given AMD are behind on process tech by a generation , they need to out-architect Intel which is a very difficult task. But against all these odds everyone is hoping AMD can compete against Intel in the big core race. lets see what AMD has in store with Excavator based Opteron refreshes. Reply
dgingeri - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - linkAMD isn't in as bad a position as you seem to think. They aren't good competition for Intel in the high end, true, but performance per dollar in the midrange and low range server market is definitely AMD's area of dominance. I have several AMD based Dell R515 machines in my lab. They perform very well, especially as virtual hosts, for a good price range. They're a good $500-700 cheaper than the equal performing Intel based machines, or in other terms, you can get two more cores per socket and two 1TB hard drives for the same price. Don't count them out just yet. Reply
Strunf - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - linkThe problem is that low and middle end don't provide that much of profit, as in AMD as to sell loads of them just to recover the costs of R&D, they don't even have their own fabs anymore so besides paying the R&D they also have to pay someone else to actually make them, plus they will soon have real competition from the ARM cause let's be honest ARM will start eating AMD market share at a much faster rate than eating Intel market share, this cause exactly of what you said, Intel owns the performance sector and the ones that want performance will not consider ARM solutions (for the time being).
Hector Ruiz was probably one of the worst CEO from the AMD history and just to think he had a bigger pay check that the CEO of Intel makes me wonder how AMD as a company is being run... Reply
JPForums - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - linkUnfortunately, $500-$700 is often a drop in the bucket compared to the software costs so a lot of businesses will go Intel despite the superior price/performance ratio. Perhaps more worrisome is the fact that AMD chips are simply larger and more costly than their Intel equivalents. If Intel ever decided to lower their profit margins enough, AMD couldn't compete.
I think AMD's current strategy of capitalizing on GPU tech and integration with SeaMicro tech is the appropriate strategy at the moment. They have no real hope of catching up to Intel's process tech and Intel appears to have a superior big chip architecture even without it. Intel is focused on its small chip architecture and given the general CPU expertise, it is probable that they will catch up their as well. However, Intel has historically been less than proficient in regards to graphics. While the new Iris line is pretty impressive, it is hard to say how much of that is efficient architecture and how much is simple brute force. Also, while the Xeon Phi is making great strides in the highend HPC arena, they simply don't yet have the expertise to leverage their on die graphics for compute as simply and easily as AMD's upcoming Berlin (for mainstream or lowend HPC). The longer AMD can maintain their technical advantage here, the better. Hopefully the can also keep building off of the SeaMicro tech to distinguish themselves from the manufacturers that think they can just throw and ARM chip in their server and call it a day. Reply
Klimax - Wednesday, June 19, 2013 - linkI wouldn't be so sure about computing advantage for AMD:
http://techreport.com/review/24954/amd-a10-6800k-a... Reply
JPForums - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - linkAMD was never even with Intel's fabrication technology in the first place. They've always been behind (usually one generation, but sometimes more). The only significant (unique) fab technology I can recall AMD releasing was their Silicon on Insulator (SOI) process, but it was still on a larger node. Also, it wasn't so much that Intel couldn't have used SOI as they just deemed strained silicon more useful for their purposes at the time.
Intel has always relied on their process advantage as it allows them to implement architectures that are simply impractical on previous process nodes. Need more performance in the same power envelope, use a higher performance architecture with a new process node. Need a lower power envelope with the same performance, a smaller process node can help you maintain the same clock speeds on the same architecture while dropping power. Need new features, such as better power management, to reach your target. A smaller process node gives you more transistors to work with to implement those features within the same die size. As cost is rather directly related to die size, they can even effectively change nothing and reduce cost. For a long time clever designs and lower profit margins had helped AMD compete, but Intel simply has far more leeway to screw up without having an appreciable effect on their final product. One less than optimal move by AMD lands them in budget land with no profit margins.
ARM based manufacturers seem to have a more optimal architecture (if only slightly) for low power processors than Intel right now. However, Intel's processes advantage has once again allowed them to achieve a rough parity with their newest Atom architecture. If Intel can close the gap in regards to architectural cleverness, then ARM houses will need to close the gap in fab tech. Otherwise, like AMD, they will be stuck in a situation where one wrong move could relegate them to the budget end (of a budget market). Luckily, there are many ARM houses and they aren't all likely to screw up at the same time. Reply
silverblue - Wednesday, June 19, 2013 - linkThe 14nm node has been delayed until 2015.
AMD's power usage would be better if they didn't implement CnQ on a per-module basis. Sharing resources is one thing, but power circuitry? The dynamic L2 is a big step in the right direction though, especially considering there's up to 8MB of it. They could always go inclusive on the caches as they did with Jaguar. Reply
Klimax - Wednesday, June 19, 2013 - link14nm wasn't delayed. (Only desktop won't receive it) Reply
1008anan - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - linkJohann, in the latest 500 supercomputer list, three supercomputer sport 22 nm Intel Ivy Bridge E5 Xeons, including the most powerful supercomputer in the world (which uses 32 thousand Ivy Bridge E5s). The Ivy Bridge E5s, although not yet listed on the Intel Price list, are already available to select customers. Ivy bridge E7s come out in weeks.
AMD's Warsaw gross margins will be squeezed.
Let us assume you are right about power efficient micro-servers. Here is the problem:
--Haswell ultra low power Xeon E3s come out in weeks
--Avoton is likely released by September.
What do you think this will do to Seattle and Berlin CPU gross margins? Keeping in mind how much Global Foundries rips AMD off in fabricating? Seattle CPU gross margins will be reduced by the fact that they cannot process native X86 code.
This said, Seattle and Berlin CPUs will do okay in the 2nd half of 2014 (doubt AMD will be able to sell them in mass before the 2nd half of 2014). The real Seattle killers will be ultra low power 14 nm broadwell E3 Xeons and airmont--avoton's 14 nm successor. Both should be available in Q4, 2014.
In 2015, Intel will release microservers powered by 14 nm multisocket Xeon Phis. Not PCI express Xeon Phis, but microservers consisting entirely of Xeon Phis that are better at processing X86 code then any ARM Holding derivatives.
The medium term Intel roadmap for new server chips, and server noncore functionality will be extremely difficult for AMD to compete against. Reply
JohanAnandtech - Thursday, June 20, 2013 - linkSeattle is not build by Global Foundries and I can imagine that the R&D on Seattle is quite cheap. After all, it is not like AMD had to reinvent the A57 core. And a lot can happen in 3 quarters, so I don't think Seattle should be compared to Airmont. Reply
bji - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - linkI think AMD still has a chance. Intel's most recent releases have shown that the per-core performance increases are asymptotically reaching the fastest x86 is going to get. Haswell was insignificantly faster than Ivy Bridge, which itself was only marginally faster than Sandy Bridge. It's clear that the year-on-year speed increases are quickly going to approach zero.
In this environment AMD has some room to catch up. If they can hold on for a few more years it should give them some time to improve until their IPC is as good as or so close to as good as Intel's as to not really matter.
Depending on how you look at it, it either sucks or is great that x86 is approaching its performance limit. Most would say it sucks because they always want something faster (even if 99.9% of the time they don't actually need it!). I actually am kind of happy that things are slowing down considerably. Rather than focusing on performance for performance' sake, perhaps we can start focusing on the entire computing infrastructure and make it work better for people instead of just faster. Lower power devices, more ubiquitous devices, more useful, more user friendly ... these are all great trends, and it's where the future competition in the computing world will predominantly be.
It reminds me of gaming consoles and their effect on games. I know alot of people dislike the fact that consoles set a performance standard that it was no longer beneficial for most games to go beyond, leading to a sort of performance stagnation. On the other hand, companies could spend more resources focusing on making better games and less on higher and higher detailed eye candy. I actually appreciate that because I think game play is more important than graphics.
Anyway, I don't think you can start sounding AMD's death knell yet. They're going to reach near performance parity with Intel in a few years just because they have more headroom for performance improvement than Intel as we approach the limit. At that point, x86 won't really be getting significantly faster year by year but it sure will get cheaper. I am sure we can all appreciate at least that aspect of it. Reply
inighthawki - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - linkx86 is far from hitting its performance limit. The reason Intel's CPUs haven't drastically improved performance in the last few generations is because their efforts have been focused elsewhere, most namely the integrated graphics chip, which has made significant strides even since Sandy Bridge, and consumes a large portion of the die. Haswell put most of their focus on Iris and power consumptions. Ivy bridge was already fast enough for 99.99% of the userbase, so it makes strong business sense to focus efforts elsewhere, and utilize their transistors on more important matters.
If Intel wanted to increase CPU performance, they could. But they have no reason to bother doing so. Other features are more important and their competition (AMD) is still a generation or two behind in performance. There's not a whole lot of pressure for faster CPUs. Reply
1008anan - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - linkinighthawki is right. In addition to what you said, Intel was focused on reducing the TDP envelope of CPU cores rather than increasing the single threaded performance of CPU cores. Since Intel uses the same architecture for everything from E7 Xeons to ultra-low power Haswell SoCs that power tablets (two 256 bit SIMDs wide with FMA), the single threaded performance of E7 Xeons is reduced to fit Haswell and Broadwell into tablets.
However, this will not last. Intel now has three X86 architectures:
--main Core architecture
--Avoton and Avoton successors
--Xeon Phi (including multisocketed E5 and E7 versions)
Intel will be able to focus on increasing the number of bits wide for the main core from 512 to 1024 for future micro-architectures, as well as improving macro fusion, branch predictors, buffer sizes (better unified reservation stations, instruction decode queues, reorder buffers) increasing the number of parallel execution ports, L1, L2, L3, etc.
The reason why is that the successors of Avoton will focus on low TDP parts over time, freeing Intel to prioritize increasing single threaded performance on the main core. Similarly Xeon Phi's focus on improving multi-threaded performance allows the main core to focus more on single threaded performance.
In any case I would argue that single threaded performance has improved more since conroe than you imply. Anand Shimpi explains why better than I could here:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6355/intels-haswell-... Reply
bji - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - linkYou refuted your own point at the end when you said "There's not a whole lot of pressure for faster CPUs". This is exactly why x86 is asymptotically approaching its IPC limit. There simply are not enough dollars chasing increased x86 performance to justify the huge costs involved in advancing x86 performance significantly. With mobile markets eating away at desktop and laptop market share, the number of tasks that require ever increasing CPU performance dwindling, and the increasing cost of increasing x86 performance, there just isn't going to be enough money chasing improved x86 performance to justify the billions that it costs to make significant headway. Reply
inighthawki - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - linkI apologize if I misinterpretted your original point, but I was speaking explicitly from a technological perspective. There are plenty of ways to improve performance, just very little will to do so. You are correct on that one.
However I'm not sure I agree that the reason is solely just a need to justify R&D costs. I think it's more simply that the performance is high enough that they have the opportunity to better spend their time on more important things. Take away the costs they've put in since Sandy Bridge associated with improving the integrated graphics performance and lowering power consumption and I bet they could've easily ended up with a chip that was at LEAST 50% faster than it is now. It's just that nobody really wants or needs that. Reply
bji - Wednesday, June 19, 2013 - linkI think we are in agreement. And I must say, things sure are different than they were 15 years ago when the gigahertz wars were heating up. Back then there was almost nothing you could do with a computer that couldn't benefit from more speed. Now ... well it's easy to go 4 or 5 years without bothering to upgrade, and the year-on-year speed bumps are almost not noticeable. Reply
andrewaggb - Wednesday, June 19, 2013 - linkI like AMD. But they are in a tough spot and I don't see them getting out of it with any of their roadmaps. The only interesting product is their ARM server chip. Everything else appears to be more of the same with slight improvements. That's not going to change the market dynamics. Intel squeezed up to 50% better idle battery life (and 30-100% faster graphics) with haswell and is targeting 2x cpu performance for the next atom and has their new xeon phi powering the fastest supercomputer (even if it's slightly less efficient than some of the other machines). They are setting aggressive targets and meeting them.
AMD needs to hit targets that are at least 30-100% better than current offerings at something that matters. Be it IPC, power consumption, graphics, maximum clocks, core counts... but something.
They should just sell the PS4 or XBOne chips. 8 cores and gddr5 or edram. That would give probably a 100% increase in apu graphics performance and double the cores which would give some cpu tasks a large increase. Reply
silverblue - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - linkI'm not sure I agree. Even with Steamroller fixing multithreading, that in itself won't result in a big gain. If Cinebench is anything to go by, FX scales decently enough there so there's not a huge amount of performance left on the table without a decent single core IPC gain.
Each BD core only contains 2 ALUs and 2 AGUs. AMD argues that dropping the third of each was a necessary evil, however whereas Stars couldn't really utilise them, Core certainly can. Additionally, FlexFPU isn't helping - theoretically, AMD shouldn't lag behind in AVX but they do significantly, so they'd need to boost the FPU to 256-bit per pipe in order to gain parity... but they're not doing this with Steamroller as far as I've heard (in fact, the only thing they're doing is removing an MMX unit). FX's memory controller doesn't appear to be that good, either, and the significant power savings from high density libraries don't come until Excavator (though Steamroller does get the dynamic L2, which is neat).
Not having an FX or Opteron Steamroller 8-core (or higher) is a bit daft regardless of the above, unless it's not a big enough jump, OR Excavator has been pushed forwards. Reply
jjj - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - linkA bit alarming that there is no 12-16 Steamroller cores on 28 or 20nm on the roadmap and what does that tells us about desktop (they don't really have a public roadmap for 2014 desktop)?
I do wonder if Warsaw is one huge die or they are still going with 2 dies with 8 cores each.
On the ARM side it will be interesting to see power consumption on 28nm,at least this way they'll have the product sooner and i do wish the DIY players and the SoC makers would set some standards for ARM desktops. At the very least there is a HTPC and file server market that can expand to desktop. Reply
SilentSin - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - linkI wonder if AMD is taking an Intel release approach to this. The high core-count EP server CPUs coming out a year after the smaller ones with some tweaks. Steamroller is set to be released for desktop in Kaveri form this year- same die as Berlin I am guessing. But you are right that I don't see a Steamroller FX chip or a server variant with 4m/8c which is puzzling. I hope that they aren't going to rely on fused-off Kaveri 2m/4c CPU only parts for clients as it simply isn't enough horsepower. The BD architecture is actually extremely competitive with anything Intel has when used in a proper Linux environment.
Hopefully these products come out on time, AMD really needs timely execution to have any hope here. Other 64-bit ARM solutions are just around the corner and they will be left in the dust if they have constant delays. Reply
Gigaplex - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - link"The BD architecture is actually extremely competitive with anything Intel has when used in a proper Linux environment."
Only for integer based workloads. It still struggles with floating point. Reply
TiredOldFart2 - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - linkInteger workload is most of the workload for now. Fp intensive will naturally migrate onto opencl over time, as it is more efficient to do so. Reply
sanaris - Monday, February 17, 2014 - linkYou are newbie in server market. Server folks will never go to closed language.
Because they value their time of development.
And of cause server processors need as much floating point as possible in 64/128 wide range.
The funny "32 fp performance" numbers which opencl and cuda creators are showing to us are irrelevant because you need as much significant bits as possible - 32 minus exponent minus reserve - conclusion is 32 fp is irrelevant. Reply
jjj - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - linkIntel got greedy and lazy ,AMD had an opportunity in 200+$ desktop with many cores, preferably on 20nm so they can fit 16 cores in a reasonable die size). AMD also has an opportunity to make an APU similar in perf to Xbox One, for a nice budged gaming box capable of playing console ports for quite a few years and more when the APU gets CFed with a discrete card.We'll see big of a GPU Kaveri has ,it's debatable if it's worth using a big enough GPU on 28nm.
In ARM consumer, both Intel and M$ are somewhat alienating customers so the ARM players should push on all fronts.
Sadly it seems AMD doesn't have the resources to be aggressive and fight too many battles. Reply
sanaris - Monday, February 17, 2014 - linkAMD had opportunity everywhere since the times they made opteron 180 and overall transition to manycore era. But they throw their chance with opteron decision to drop floating point. And of cause AMD needs manual cache regulation instruction set. Reply
JDG1980 - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - linkI don't think we can necessarily infer desktop strategy from the server roadmap. AMD already has a really, really small market share (something like 4%) in big x86 server parts. Their market share on the desktop is nowhere near that bad. Sure, they're going to release the APUs first for Steamroller since that's a mainstream product and has a bigger market than the enthusiasts. But once they get that done, they're going to need to do something to keep themselves in the news until the next architecture, and putting together a FX chip wouldn't be too much of a stretch. I do think that Socket AM3+ is dead; the FX parts will most likely be on the same socket as the APUs from now on. This will minimize engineering costs. Reply
zepi - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - linkThe problem is, that AMD's big cores are so bad compared to Intel's big cores, that it makes next to no sense to compete against Intel with them. Perf/w is worse and manufacturing costs are far too high. To sell chips made out of these cores, they need to cut their prices so low, that they can't make any profits to pay for R&D or any other stuff. This applies to both server and desktop-market. Sure, you can sell expensive to manufacture multi-module phenoms for cheap-ass people who want best multicore performance per dollar, but what's the benefit when you can't make any money doing so?
AMD is in dire need of a complete big-core CPU architecture renewal and with their R&D resources that just isn't probably going to happen any time soon. Unless they can pull some kind of a magical bunnyrabit from their hat, I don't see them being competetive in big-core ever again.
They are shifting their target to those markets where they hope they can still compete. Reply
JDG1980 - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - linkThe big question right now is if Steamroller can fix the problems with AMD's construction equipment architecture or not. Official estimates are quite bullish, promising 15%-30% gains on a clock-for-clock basis. No doubt these are overly generous estimates and I take them with a grain of salt, but if AMD can increase actual IPC by 10% or more with Steamroller (rather than just cranking the clock speed higher) then there may be hope for the construction equipment cores. If not, then AMD's best bet is ditching that line altogether, and scaling up Jaguar or its successor so it's reasonably competitive on the desktop. The good thing is that Jaguar is already optimized for low power (which is where the Bulldozer lineage really falls short) and its IPC is pretty good. And they've already got some nice design wins with the PS4 and Xbone, which demonstrates that these cores are suitable for gaming (an "enthusiast" use). Perhaps they could backport some of the features that Bulldozer and its successors actually got right, like the improved branch predictor. (Or did they already do that with Jaguar?) After all, this is basically what Intel did when they dropped Netburst in favor of a revised version of the P6 architecture. Reply
JPForums - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - link@zepi "Sure, you can sell expensive to manufacture multi-module phenoms for cheap-ass people who want best multicore performance per dollar, but what's the benefit when you can't make any money doing so?"
Even if you can't make any money, if you can break even it is still useful for keeping your employees employed. While a business doesn't have an inherent need to employ someone for the sake of employing them, in this case, it is useful for maintaining your talent pool. For a company like AMD, the engineers' work cycles are most likely punctuated with periods of high demand and low demand. When you have fewer product lines, this means their could be periods of time where they have no work to do at all while waiting for work to be completed farther up the line. Even a small loss is better that paying a chunk of employees to do nothing while waiting for the next thing to come down the pipe. Having more product lines allows you to even out such lulls by staggering releases and thus filling in the gaps from one product line with work from another.
As an example, if the employees responsible for the low power line's layout only worked the low power line, many of them would have been left with nothing to do as they were waiting for the Jaguar architecture to be developed and simulated. Tweaks to the bobcat layout and preparations for the next node change would have kept some of them busy, but it is quite likely that many found work in the mainstream or even FX lines in the interim. Reply
TiredOldFart2 - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - linkIf you take a look at amd's assets, their portfolio and their current situation its not hard to see where they are headed. Money is usually made in the middle of the road. By this i mean most sales for enterprise class server cpus in this economic scenario will target a balance of sufficient computing power, price and power consumption.
What would you, as a business owner, opt for your average vm server for your average medium business needs? the $600, 95w e5-2630 or the $290, 115w opteron 6320? I wont even discuss the different standards when it comes to the tdp rating both companies have, its a matter of cold hard cash.
AMD will sell cheap, will move faster while listening to clients, will take more risks on niche markets, will leverage their gpu technologies onto the server market to make up for their less than stellar fpu performance.
How big is the HPC market compared to the SME one? Reply
JPForums - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - linkI'm not sure this is the correct time, but I do think that eventually we will see a merger or at least closer alignment of the FX line and the A series products. Consider that since before the bulldozer architecture was conceptualized, AMD had been looking to fuse the CPU and GPU into one chip. They wanted to allow people to program code for the "GPU" portions of the processor as easily as the "CPU" portions and even within the same code blocks. They've steadily (if slowly) progressed towards this goal since then culminating in their current HSA and hUMA technologies. When looked at from this perspective, the subpar floating point performance of bulldozer and its derivatives makes sense. If you have a set of "GPU" cores or "stream processors" available to handle floating point operations, then it seems less necessary to include them in the CPU cores.
Unfortunately, this merger is taking longer than AMD's initial expectations. Even if AMD's intention was to leverage discrete GPU's, in the mean time, to cover the floating point gap, software hasn't yet progressed to the point make it happen. For the moment, a GPUless part is necessary to serve higher performance sectors. Though eventually, I do expect to see GPUish elements in their high end parts to handle parallel operations and possibly augment the floating point characteristics of the processors. At this point, the transistors dedicated to the "GPU" portion will no longer be useless die space in regards to CPU performance. Such processors would have a much easier time with voice recognition, facial recognition, pattern recognition, neural algorithms (A.I. learning), ect. Reply
JDG1980 - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - linkAMD can't expect third-party code to be rewritten to accomodate their processors. If they can leverage the GPU for floating point, then fine, but it has to work seamlessly with existing CPU opcodes. In other words, the APU has to *internally* see that a stream of (say) SSE2 floating point instructions is coming, and hand that off to the GPU portion, without requiring anything to be recoded.
AMD doesn't have the market share to tell software vendors to do things their way. Reply
Shadowmaster625 - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - linkThat 2013 picture is some scary schiznit! Last time I went to a concert that was what it was like too. Those screens are right out of some science fiction horror novel. It is amazing what people cannot see, even when it is so plainly obvious. Reply
bji - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - linkYeah people are more focused on burying their noses in their phones and capturing the moment than actually living the moment. I don't have a smart phone and I notice that I pay alot more attention to what I'm actually doing than most people most of the time. I don't know why people think it's necessary to record a crappy smart phone recording of an event when you can almost certainly buy a professionally made recording of almost any important event after the fact for a few bucks. Reply
silverblue - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - link"Andrew Feldman told us that Berlin will offer at least twice CPU processing performance than the Opteron X-series."
I'd damn well hope it was a lot more than this. If it's clocked at twice the speed then Berlin will be forgettable, however if the comparison is with Berlin clocked at, say, 3GHz, that's not so bad.
All non-BD AMD architectures seem to scale very well with additional cores, and this is the main area that SR looks to improve upon. Reply
nismotigerwvu - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - linkSmall typo on page 4, on the very first sentence," The current Opteron 4310 EE (2 modules, 4 cores at 2.2-3 GHz, 40W TDP) and Opteron 4376 HE (4 modules, 89 cores at 2.6-3.6 GHz, 65W TDP) are about the best AMD can deliver for low power servers that need some more processing power." Unless I'm mistaken (which an 89 core chip would be pretty sweet, especially at just 65 watts) that should read 8 core. Otherwise great read Johan. Reply
JohanAnandtech - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - linkthx. fixed :-) Reply
Denithor - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - link"It is clear that the micro server market gets the lionshare of AMD's attention."
lion's share
"While the Opteron-X, Opteron 6300 and "Berlin" CPU will all face stiff completion from the Intel alternatives."
"but it looks like Intel will probably have the upperhand in most traditional server markets."
upper hand
Wow, did you guys not edit this piece before going live? Reply
JohanAnandtech - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - linkTo be honest, I wrongly assumed that I still had some time left, then discovered that the deadline was already a few hours ago and just hurried. So I humbly thank you for making this article more readable for our readers :-) Reply
JDG1980 - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - linkI'm hoping we will see some relatively inexpensive Mini-ITX Kyoto boards. An Opteron-X paired with ECC RAM could make a good, reliable platform for a DIY firewall or low-end NAS. Reply
iwod - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - linkI didn't known the 9W for X1150 was for 1Ghz Core. If so i guess Intel will have Zero competition for Atom Servers. Intel will want to get as much market shares between now to end of 2014 when ARM will have a low power server product. Seattle seems interesting, I wonder if it is possible to have 4x 16 Core Seattle in a server. Seems like a good candidate for Hosting environment. Reply
SuperMecha - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - linkRemember that the X1150 has 4 cores vs the 2 for the Atom chip. It also has much better IPC and support for ECC and 32GB (DDR3-1600) of RAM vs only 8GB (DDR3-1333) for the S1260. Reply
JDG1980 - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - linkThe Centertron (S1200-series) Atoms already have ECC support. But the performance is still subpar, so AMD will have an advantage there. Also, as far as I have been able to determine, there is only one Centertron board available to DIYers (the Supermicro X9SBAA-F) and it's hard to find and quite pricey (>$250). If AMD could get Mini-ITX Kyoto boards out at the $150-$200 price point, this would be a quite attractive option for small servers. Reply
iwod - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - linkSo how would next Gen Intel Arch compared to Jaguar? Since Intel has ( I think ) Hyper Threading in their Next Gen as well, so a Dual Core isn't so far off from Quad Core, And it seems Intel can ups the Ghz a bit more then the X1150.
I would love to see some comparison done. Reply
milli - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - link"Berlin will use the same 28 nm process technology as the Opteron x1150 and x2150"
Jaguar is made at TSMC.
Rumors for Steamroller derived processors point to production at Globalfoundries. Most go as far as claiming that it will be FD-SOI (see STMicroelectronics). That makes sense because 28nm bulk would be a step back compared to 32nm SOI. I don't think AMD is going to stop using SOI for their high-end CPU's anytime soon.
Either way, be sure that they won't be using the same process technology (even though they're both 28nm) for these very different CPU's. Reply
rocketbuddha - Thursday, June 20, 2013 - linkPlease...
AMD specifically said in the DEC 2012 WSA amendment with Global Foundries. It is in Page 6 of the 11 Page PDF titles
Separately, AMD will move to standard 28nm process technology and significantly reduce reimbursements to GF for future research and development costs.
We anticipate these savings will be approximately ~$20M per quarter during the next several years which also helps achieve our OPEX target of $450M by Q3 2013
<end quote>
Read again and again. The standard technology at 28nm is Bulk HKMG. not SOI.
Even GF's powerpoint roadmap states that the 20nm as well as 14XM process will both be successors to 28nm Bulk HKMG will continue to be Bulk HKMG and bulk with FinFETs respectively. And the SOI line stops with 28nm FD-SOI (in collaboration with STM) and just a ambiguous dotted line for the future.
With FDSOI we still do not know if GF has agreed to manufacture FDSOI parts in large volume. All we know is the license agreement between ST Micro and GF. Reply
1008anan - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - linkDo you really think Seattle will hit the market in Q1 2014? Count me skeptical. Seattle will have lower single threaded performance than Avoton. Plus Seattle can't process native X86 code the way Avoton can. Reply
Wilco1 - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - linkSeattle will sample in Q1 and be available in Q3 according to other articles.
Note A57 is much faster than Avoton, even A15 has better IPC. Given Seattle packs 4 times as many cores, we're talking about 5-6 times the throughput of Avoton. Reply
milli - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - linkWilco1, it's beautiful how you can make definite conclusion based on nothing.
All we know now are estimates. But if you would even take these estimates into consideration then things won't be as rosy as you describe them.
- A57 will be around 20-30% faster then A15 on the same process. Numbers from ARM themselves. In one of Anand's reviews, AMD's Bobcat core was faster than a A15.
- Intel's press release on Silvermont: "Silvermont microarchitecture delivers ~3x more peak performance or the same performance at ~5x lower power over current-generation Intel Atom processor core"
Considering that the newest Atom SOC's aren't that much slower than AMD's Bobcat core, a sane person wouldn't have said what you just said. Reply
Wilco1 - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - linkLet's start with the facts, shall we? We already know A15 beats current Atoms by a huge margin on native code:
Let's assume Silvermont will do 3 times the score, so ~4300 (I don't believe it will but that's another discussion). A57 has 20-30% better IPC as you say, and clocks up to 2.5GHz, so would score ~7300. That means with 4x the cores Seattle would have 6.8 times the throughput. Round it down to 5-6 times because we're talking about estimates. Any sane person would agree with my calculation. Avoton has no chance to compete on throughput, not even with 8 cores. Period.
Btw A15 easily beats Bobcat and trades blows with Jaguar (beats it on overall score, wipes it out on FP but is slower on int and memory - remember this is a phone SoC!): http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/compare/... Reply
milli - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - linkYou're comparing a dual core Atom to a quad core A15!
If it wasn't for the Neon unit kicking ass in some tests, the scores would be pretty close. Since Silvermont will support SSE4.1 & SSE4.2, it will become stronger in that department.
The first Seattle will be a 8-core part. The 16-core one will follow later but AMD is not precise with the release date.
Geekbench is a very low level benchmark that runs mostly in the processor cache. Many things that make or a break a processor are not tested in this way. It's not true indicator of real world performance.
Here you have an example where a 1.6Ghz dual core bobcat beats a 1.7Ghz dual core A15 by almost 20% in a real world cpu intensive test. Just to show that Geekbench is very low-level and thing like prefetchers, branch predictors, ... are not tested very well.
But as I said, it's too soon to speculate. That's all I'm saying. Reply
Wilco1 - Wednesday, June 19, 2013 - linkAtom supports hyperthreading which gives a big speedup so it is reasonable to compare with a quad core - note most phones are quad-core anyway. But as you show even a dual A15 beats a dual Atom by almost a factor of 2 despite running at a lower frequency. I don't know whether NEON is used at all, but I'd be surprised if it was.
Geekbench is not perfect but it correlates well with other native benchmarks such as SPEC and Phoronix. Your physics example is comparing hand optimized drivers for different GPUs. The A15 is trivially beaten by the Note 2 (quad A9) despite having ~3 times the NEON FP performance. So I'm not sure whether one can conclude anything from that beyond that AMD's drivers appear to be well optimized. Reply
milli - Wednesday, June 19, 2013 - link3DMark physics runs completely on the CPU. The GPU is not used at all. The fact that the Note 2 beats the dual A15, shows ones more that low level benchmarks like GB and SPEC are almost meaningless between architectures.
Also, I don't agree that you should compare a dual core HT Atom to a quad core. It's still a dual core. That A15 beats a 5 year old Atom core by a factor of 2 is no feat. It's the minimum.
Yes, Geekbench is compiled to use ARM's Neon. Reply
Wilco1 - Wednesday, June 19, 2013 - linkYes I know the physics test runs on the CPU. Without having access to the source code it would be hard to say what causes it. If it doesn't use Neon and has a high correlation with #cores * MHz then that might explain it. Btw where did you get that Geekbench uses Neon? Which benchmarks are actually vectorized?
A dual Atom has 4 threads. A 2-module Bulldozer has 4 threads. A quad core has 4 threads. These are ways of supporting 4 threads with different hardware tradeoffs. However from the software perspective they look and behave in the same way. So it's entirely reasonable to compare thread for thread.
Btw if you think the dual A15 vs Atom speedup of ~2x is low, you'll be disappointed with Silvermont. Since the claimed 2.8x speedup is for a quad core, a dual Silvermont will only be ~1.4 times faster... Reply
rocketbuddha - Thursday, June 20, 2013 - linkAMD APU is on Windows Full version.
A15 SOCs are in Android mobile version.
Not at all equivalent. Reply
1008anan - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - linkWilco, Avoton's 14 nm shrink (airmont) is likely released in Q4, 2014. Seattle will be available in Q3, 2014. Seattle should really be compared to airmont.
Avoton has better branch predictors and macro fusion than A57. Some Avoton SoCs will pack 20 Silvermont cores.
"Given Seattle packs 4 times as many cores, we're talking about 5-6 times the throughput of Avoton." :LOL:
Silvermont and Airmont cores are more power efficient than A57 cores. Reply
Wilco1 - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - linkDidn't you read the news that Intel appears to be delaying 14nm introduction to 2015? And where did you see that Avoton has 20 cores? At best they might have 8.
Nobody has compared A57 and Avoton branch predictors yet, so the jury is out on that. Same for power efficiency. Reply
1008anan - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - linkA friend Ashraf wrote an article about the 14 nm "delay" not being that big of a delay:
Avoton SoC packages might include 20 cores. More than one die per package. Reply
JDG1980 - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - linkI know I love to get my tech news from *investment* websites. (/sarcasm) Reply
Wilco1 - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - linkA delay is a delay. And a link to a tech site which mentions that 20 core Avoton? Reply
iwod - Wednesday, June 19, 2013 - link14nm is only being delayed on Desktop where there are NO competition. It is on schedule for Atom and Mobile CPU. Reply
LordanSS - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - linkI believe the road AMD has chosen has a good future for them... the only problem is that, currently, that road is very rocky and difficult to drive through.
Once they manage to fulfill their "Fusion" plans, we won't need to be bothered by the anemic FPU units paired on each Piledriver/Steamroller/whatever module, mostly because that computing should be done on the GPU (which, by the time the Fusion is complete, would be an integral part of the processor itself).
Unfortunately we're still a few years away from such... and I hope they (greatly) improve integer performance on their cores until then. But I do believe it's going to happen, and it'll be great.
Think of the old "math co-processors" of the past, back in the 386 days (they got integrated on the 486 models). The only difference now tho, is that a GCN IGP unit of today has an order of magnitude more compute/FPU power than Intel parts. If you fast forward to the future, and get that improved even more and fused into the CPU.... Reply
RandSec - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - link"AMD can't expect third-party code to be rewritten to accomodate their processors." AMD doesn't have the market share to tell software vendors to do things their way."
Not true. AMD has *more* than mere market share, it has *complete* *market* *dominance* in the new gaming consoles. *All* of gaming graphics software expertise is now focused on leveraging CPU / GPU tradeoffs in the AMD APU design. If advantages really exist, they will be found and exposed, and new software will go that way as well, if only for AMD users. For example, it would seem that the GPU has plenty of fast FP, which need not also be in the CPU, *provided* it can be accessed easily without copying back and forth. Reply
ruiner5000 - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - linkWhat is this second great depression we are talking about? I think that is a myth. I don't see any dust bowls or soup lines. Certainly not here in Austin, where AMD is. What you had to wait an extra week to pick up your iPhone 5 and were depressed, and that's the 2nd great depression? Have you ever talked to anyone who was actually alive during the great depression? Wimps. Reply
SunLord - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - linkWe're not going to see any major x86 architecture changes from AMD till at least 2015 if not 2016 thats about how long it takes to design and deploy a newly designed architecture which is hopefully what the major rehires from last year will be working on. So we're stuck with mostly minor tweaks and enhancements till then. Reply
TiredOldFart2 - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - linkForget low power arm servers, give me a hybrid. Give me a box with x86 and arm cpus, and allocates resources based on use scenario.
Give this to the market cheap and with low power usage and carve your way back into relevance. Reply
name99 - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - link"AMD says that using the graphics core for the heavy scalar floating point will get as easy as C++ programming and as a result, Berlin should make a few heads turn in the HPC world. It even looks like SSE-x will get less and less important over time in that market. "
Ahh, yes, the old "New compilers will make our weird CPU architecture invisible to the programmer" gambit. How's that worked out in the past, guys?
Trimedia? Cell? iTanium?
But there's sucker born every minute. Good luck to anyone foolish enough to invest today on the assumption that this magical compiler will be available tomorrow.
[I'm not claiming this breakthrough --- compiler-transparent GPGPU --- will NEVER happen. I am claiming it ain't gonna happen during the relevant lifetime of this product.] Reply
Alberto - Wednesday, June 19, 2013 - linkThis roadmap is a disaster.
No new high margin SKUs since 2015++ (excavator). No medium margin SKUs to beat Intel single socket offerings since excavator core will born in an unknown year.
The low margin segment is dominated by a NON-X86 core...vanilla from Arm and not custom ala Qualcomm.
The process side of the things is even worse. The Arm core (H2 2014 from a more accurate Amd official slide reported by xbit) is stuck on 28nm, funny thing !! considering that Qualcomm will be on 20nm in Q1/2014; Amd has not even the money to work with TSMC to deliver a competitive Arm Soc !!!
Seattle is just now a failure looking the specs, the process do not allow eight cores with a decent TDP to mach Intel Avoton in 22nm Trigate. Recent impementations of A15 say that 28nm node is not the best thing around not even to do a decent quadcore low power device...you figure an eight core one.
Anyway Seattle is late, aka in the same time frame of 14nm Airmont.
The last part of the article is stunning: "It looks like the Intel Avoton will have a very potent challenger in Q1 2014".....too bad Seattle that is an H2 2014 device.
"So there is good chance that AMD will make a big comeback in 2014 in the server market"
What server market??? microserver market ??? with a NON-x86 core ??? a x86 Company ???
I have said: there is good chances that Amd will do a so so New Entry in 2014 in a 10% low margin nice on the server market, along with many other contenders some of them with custom and optimized x86/Arm cores.
I love our articles Johan, still this seem very very strange to me Reply
PCpowerman - Wednesday, June 19, 2013 - linkYou guys on here sound like incompetent investors on Wall Street that no noting about technology. Let me give you investors some advice: If you do not know the field very well that you invest in, then you should refrain from commenting like you know who will be more competitive.
When AMD goes all HuMa aware with their new generation APU's then SSE instructions, AXV instructions and other such floating point instructions will be utterly destroyed by a program that takes advantage of the GCN cores on these APU's. That is an UNDENAIBLE FACT!! A program written to take full advantage of the best floating point instructions that X86 has to offer will not come ANYWHERE near that of the same program written take advantage of the GCN cores on the next generation APU,s.
That is why the server Kaveri variant CPU does not need to be 2P or 4P. Database programs that leverage GCN cores will outperform Intel's floating point instructions in their processors, even in 2P or 4P configs. It takes a whole lot of CPU's to equal the floating point computation power of the GCN architecture. CPU's are only great at serial code and branch prediction. We need more programmers to comment on here rather than you investor types. I feel like the only technical person on here. Geez... Reply
Alberto - Wednesday, June 19, 2013 - linkToo bad most common server workload is not floating point only based and a rude and layout repetitive GPU can be a substitute of a CPU. The bulk of the SW is optimized serial.
Kaveri can be nice in low end HPC, still you forget that Intel is shipping nicely powerful integrated GPU in these days, so Amd is not alone anymore in this segment.
And yes Kavery need to be 2P, but it is not. Reply
andrewaggb - Wednesday, June 19, 2013 - linkThere will be certain operations that can be made potentially many times faster. But not everything. Databases are interesting, but at least in my use cases they are more limited by memory capacity and disk/Storage I/O than cpu performance.
Most of the things I code are office and management/ordering/billing systems. Nothing particularly cpu intensive (other than video compression). Just lots of business rules and interop. Reply
Klimax - Wednesday, June 19, 2013 - linkSee Iris Pro and what it does to GCN... Reply
Alberto - Wednesday, June 19, 2013 - linkMoreover Intel graphics are now fully OpenGL 4 e OpenCL 1.2 capable....... Reply
Calinou__ - Thursday, June 20, 2013 - link...on Windows. Reply
1008anan - Wednesday, June 19, 2013 - linkPCpowerman,
Please comment on Intel's Broadwell integrated graphics and 14 nm tock (maybe Goldstone?) integrated graphics.
Intel is closer to truly fusion application processors with many different types of cores working together (both fixed function and general function.) Reply
wumpus - Friday, July 05, 2013 - linkWake me up when those microserver GPUs can use protected memory. As far as I know, all that memory is wide open to any process on the server. I can't imagine many uses of a microserver that could accept that (google and other single owner datacenters, maybe. But I tend to see these things as something you would want for VPS hosting).
GPUs appear perfect for cryptographic uses, but are completely unacceptable as long as they can't protect their own memory (just sift through the entire GPU looking for keys, you will find them quickly). I suppose there exist the odd ECC format you might want to run on your server, but that is sufficiently exotic to simply justify adding a PCIe card. Reply


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If you are using the sidekick to switch between edit, design and preview modes, you may notice that the pages refreshes automatically when switching to edit and design mode, but not when switching to preview mode.
This can cause problems if you are using the WCMMode methods and properties in your application to display a different page view depending on the current mode (i.e. using conditional logic based on WCMMode.DESIGN, WCMMode.EDIT and WCMMode.PREVIEW). If the page does not refresh when switching to preview mode, then it will display the same objects and state as it did in edit mode.
The solution is simply to force a page refresh automatically when switching to preview mode.
- Open /libs/wcm/core/components/init/init.jsp
- Add the previewReload property as follows and save the changes:
CQ.WCM.launchSidekick("<%= currentPage.getPath() %>", { propsDialog: "<%= dlgPath == null ? "" : dlgPath %>", locked: <%= currentPage.isLocked() %>, previewReload: "true" });
- Now CQ is setup to refresh automatically when switching to preview mode.
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Hello, anyeong-ha-se-yo, and konnichiwa.
Name's Keith, I'm a 23 year old guy living in, if not the worst state in the Union, then the most boring one.
Interesting or weird? I suffer from OCD, which ranges from mild to severe depending on...I dunno, the weather.
What got me into anime and stuff? Well, Toonami probably got me into it the first time, but I stopped watching anime or reading manga a long time ago. What got me back into it was my sister going to Otakon. I decided to tag along, and my interest was renewed.
So...ja. I'm new here. Nice to meetcha. >_>
1. Shane Ward
2. 30, Male, and live in the UK
3. I drive, Yeah, very strange, but I also write... Working on Manga at the moment, Trying to figure out this website.
4. Saw a program on Sci-Fi and been hooked on anime ever since. Can't draw to save my life but writing and watching anime of all kinds. Love Sci-0Fi stuff, space battles and such... Gets me going any time.
Ummm hey people of CR!
1) My name is Rebecca
2) Im 16, *looks up* my name is Rebecca so im guessing im a chick xD, and I live in New York.
3) I love love love yaoi~! So feel free to talk to me about it anytime ^^.
4) What got me into anime was when I was staying up late one night on cartoonnetwork and saw Inuyasha and as soon as I saw him I was like yesssssssss~! lol. But before that I'd already been playing video games based on anime shows so I guess you can say that was what initially got me into anime. Anyway enough rambling, please treat me well! I'll be in your care~
1. Charlie
2. 32/m/Reno, NV
3. I make chainmaille clothing for cosplay/costuming
4. There's not just one thing that grabbed my interest with anime/video games. Started out with Final Fantasy and Zelda growing up and just continued to grow from there.
I'm Nick
18/m/west coast
Absolutely boring
Watched inuyasha while on vacation and loved it
1. Cuong ( Jason )
2. 23.Male.Lake Charles, LA
3. Hm, never notice anything interesting or weird about myself. (N/A)
4. Cartoon Network?! hahaaa. Come home from school back in the days and saw anime for the first time (Dragon Ball Z. Sailor Moon. Kenshin. Outlaw Star)
"I don't get drunk. I get awesome"
I visit here often and just got the 14 day free trial. I don't plan on buying it until around Christmas time when I have an IPhone so I can watch anime on the go.
I just this second filled out my profile and I feel like I'm repeating myself. My name is Jade, I'm nineteen and I'm from the UK. It's nice to meet everyone!
Watching you. O.o
Hi everyone,
Only recently found out about crunchyroll thanks to the announcement of the ps3 app. Anyway a little about me
1. Matt
2. 28/M/England
3. Lived in Japan for over a year on a working holiday visa and I'm currently doing a degree in film, plan to move back to Japan once I've got my degree
4. First Films/series that really got me into anime are Akira, ghost in the shell, tenchi muyo, neon genesis evangelion, patlabor and dominion tank police
Hey people want a place to chat with your' friends, discuss anime, RP, play games, and see how you rank in a competitive RP Rankings? then come over to http://rp-rampage.webs.com/ and have some fun. Thank You.
Hello everyone! Here is my introduction:
1. I'm Marina or just Rina
2. 18/F/Southern California
3.People say I smile in my sleep as if I don't smile in real life
4. Anime: At the age 4, my favorite shows were "Sailor Moon" and "Dragon Ball Z." Flash forward to when I was 12, I saw the live action version of "Sailor Moon" ("Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon") which inspired me to watch all the Sailor Moon episodes in Japanese. Then one after another, I relived my Cartoon Network anime days and then found new anime to watch.
Music: "Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon" live action drama got me into the songs fast and I began singing them too. I then discovered Morning Musume, Aya Hirano, and a few more. I even got into K-Pop like Girls Generation and 2NE1.
Games: Well, I don't play games. I don't even have a console. But i love looking at the covers of boxes because of the art when I go to Game Stop with my brothers! Does that count?
1. Aina
2. 16/F/Malaysia
3. i'm left handed
4. once upon a time when i was small (cant remember how old i was) sailor moon was very popular in school. my friend convinced me to watch and have been hooked on anime since
2.18/m/southern california
3.I love to laugh a lot
4.Dragonball z and Naruto got me hooked on anime
Hai hai
2. 30/f/canada
3.things that make me lol and i hate things that make me cry ;.;
4.My first anime ever was Sailor Moon and inuyasha then kenshin <3
i love most manga's /anime's
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My sister's half mask Blenheim with Sophie our daughter.
My sister's half mask Blenheim with Sophie our daughter.
Joanna, Daisy Boo(ruby), Twinkle(tri), Brandy(blenheim rescue) and himindoors (mutt)
Too cute - don't know who I smiled more at....Julio or Sophie!
Maybe Sophie was a dog in a previous life. She sure looked comfortable in the crate and playing with Julio. And he was so good with her.
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Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) is a method of amplifying a specific DNA target sequence.
The cycle involves denaturing the template double stranded DNA (dsDNA) to single stranded DNA (ssDNA). Custom designed primers/oligonucleotides then anneal to their target sequence on the ssDNA. The DNA polymerase then extends the primers in a 5' → 3' direction, creating a complementary double strand. The cycle repeats with the denaturing of the recently synthesised dsDNA. This becomes the template to which the unused primers will anneal.
A programmed thermal cycler runs through a series of specific temperatures for specific durations to achieve the amplification.
Primers/oligonucleotides are designed to anneal to a specific sequence of target DNA thus determining the beginning and end of the region to be amplified, e.g. flanking a gene on genomic DNA. The DNA polymerase uses Deoxynucleotide-triphosphates (dNTPs), a mix of dATP, dCTP, dGTP & dTTP in its synthesis of the complementary strand.
PCR is the amplification of a gene for further experimentation. For example: an amplified gene can then be digested, enabling it to be cloned into a vector. Colony PCR can then be used as a check if the ligation was successful. By using the same primers and a single colony from a transformation of a ligation; amplification of the gene would indicate that the colony had a correctly ligated construct.
You should know the target sequence in order to design primers. The primers should ideally be about 20-30 nucleotides/base pairs (nt/bp) long, with little or no secondary structure formation. They should have a melting temperature (Tm) between ~55°C and 65°C and a primer pair should have Tm >±5°C. The 3' end of each primer needs to be designed carefully as this is where the DNA polymerase action begins.
General laboratory & molecular biology safety rules apply.
DNA template, Two oligos/primers, DNA Taq polymerase, dNTPs Deoxynucleotides-triphosphate, Buffer, 50% DMSO(Dimethylsulphoxide)/glycerol, dH2O, ice, PCR tubes, thermal cycler and program.
Create a 50% DMSO solution using dH2O, see Notes for an alternative. Ensure the primers have been dissolved in a stock solution of 500pmol then to a working concentration of 50pmol. Thaw all other solutions on ice. Label PCR tubes to be used and setup the thermal cycler.
Total volume in a PCR tube - 50µL
Remove the enzyme(s) from the freezer when needed and keep all the other ingredients on ice.
The buffer is required to provide a suitable chemical environment for the DNA polymerase to work in. The 50% DMSO helps to avoid secondary structures forming within a primer or the ssDNA template, sometimes a 50% glycerol solution gives better results than the standard 50% DMSO solution.
Adjust the volume of the template DNA according to its concentration but remember to also adjust the volume of water added for the reaction to be in 50μL.
Based on the design of the primers and the length of the target sequence a cycle can be created. The initial denaturing temperature is usually 96°C for 5 minutes followed by the actual cycle. The denaturing temperature usually stays the same 96°C or can decrease to 92°C to extend the life of the DNA polymerase; it normally last for 0.5-2 minutes. The annealing temperature is approximately Tm-5°C (Tm: melting temperature of the primers) this should avoid non-specific annealing to similar but non-identical sequences; this is for ~30 seconds. The extension temperature is always 72°C as this is the optimum temperature for DNA polymerase; the time is dependant on the length of the target, Taq DNA Polymerase has an activity ~103 base pairs per minute.


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Bernhard Müller was Manager of Research and Development for Mueller Solartechnik in Offenheim, Germany. He is the inventor of the Pil Kaar, Kundu Kaar, Zèbre and Mata Hari solar cookers and modified the Primrose of Roger Bernard. Bernhard is a founding member of the Solar Cookers International Network, a member of American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE), a member of International Solar Energy Society (ISES), and supporting member of EG-Solar e.V.
The solar cooker production ended in 2012 (retirement). As per November 2012 Bernhard Müller limits his activities to consulting, independent solar cookers tests and publication of information on solar cooking.
- April 2017: Bernhard Müller has been elected as board member of the German development aid organisation Lernen - Helfen - Leben e.V.
- March 2016: Bernhard Müller has written an excellent explanation of how fuel-efficient gasifier stoves work and are constructed. See: Gasifiers
- November 2014: Bernhard Müller started a fundraiser at betterplace.org to support seminars and workshops directed at the use and production of fireless cookers for the Kenyan NGOs NAREWAMA and FOTO."
- October 2014: Bernie Müller is working on the development of a counter-current solar food dryer which saves 50% on space and materials compared to common solar tunnel dryers. Involved in the development are Faustine Odaba of NAREWAMA, John Amayo of SURE, Prof. Wilson Ogola of the Technical University of Kenya as well as some experts from Uganda. NAREWAMA has also appointed Bernhard Müller as their Technical coordinator for Europe.
- April 2014: Bernie Müller describes his latest approach for measuring the aperture openings, or solar collection area, for solar cookers here: Explanations of the Aperture Area - Bernhard Müller
- September 2013: Bernie Müller invented the Jar-in-Jar heat trap and gave some of them to NGOs in Kenya. Learn more about this in the Wiki-rubrics Glazing and Solar cooking pots.
- December 2012: Bernie Müller has published findings based on his experimentation with a twin Fresnel lens solar cooker. This cooker was never meant to be a production prototype, and his company, Mueller Solartechnik, no longer manufactures solar cookers. As an engineering exercise, he has shown that incorporating the Fresnel lens produces quite high temperatures: 278 °C (532.4 °F). However, the usable cooking area is small.
- November 2012: Bernie Mueller finished the solar cookers manufacturing activities and limited the business to consulting, designs of new cookers, publication of various brochures and independent solar cookers tests.
- November 2016: Food drying attachment for solar panel cookers - Bernhard Müller
- July 2016: Solar food processing in Eastern Africa – a summary - Bernhard Müller
- October 2015: Presentation: Tabula rasa - Ein Drama in vier Sätzen - Bernhard Müller
- April 2014: The Water Boiling Test for Solar Cookers – WBT SC - Bernie Mueller & Faustine Odaba
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As you drive up to Rudy's you can smell the smoky aroma of barbecue in the air all the way to the parking lot. You can feel the heat from the fire alongside the building. The food at Rudy's is grilled over a fiery hot flame fueled by oak.
All the meats have a unique taste from the special dry spice that is used. Service is great. As you order your meats there are chopped right in front of your eyes. Staff are always friendly and quick to offer a smile .
Rudy's has the best cream corn dish to die for, it goes with any menu item. Among the sides you can get are potatoe salad, cole slaw, beans, and corn on the cobb.
Brisket and Ribs are definitely their specialty, juicy and mouth watering with just enough spices. Chicken by the half and turkey sliced like brisket when you feel like eating light. Baby back ribs and sausage links are also Rudy favorites.
Life is simple at Rudy's, food is served on long sheets of wax paper (except for the sides of course) so don't be afraid to get your hands dirty.
For dessert you can have banana or chocolate pudding, brownies, or cobbler. Along with the usual beverages you can drink beer or wine. Rudy's is the place to go for authentic barbecue when you're out on the road and don't have access to your favorite grill.
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The CoverItLive blog is designed to provide live, up-to-date analysis and thoughts of select away events to help fans of the Green and Gold interact with scoring table personnel in ways a traditional radio or television broadcast cannot provide. It is also a great chance for fans, parents and students, to interact as the game is in progress and will have a decisively Saint Leo tone.
The game itself sees the Lions travel three hours up to Georgia's most southern city, where Saint Leo was victors last year in an 85-79 upset in the season's first game.
This team and this season are completely different for the Lions as new Head Coach Lance Randall takes his rebuilt group on the road for the first time in 2011-12. Facing their first NCAA competition, the Lions are 1-1 after an impressive outing to open the year against Southeastern on Friday night, and a disappointing loss the next day to Southern PolyTech.
Averaging 13.5 points per game, newcomers Marcus Ruh and Trent Thomas lead the Lions in scoring as the teams is bucketing 53 points per game. Connecting on 67 percent of his shots from the field, Thomas has also hit 50 percent of his three-point attempts, but it is too early in the season to set anything in concrete for the Lions.
Valdosta State comes in with an identical record as the Lions with an 88-78 opening night win over Puerto Rico-Mayaguez, followed up by an 88-77 loss to Sunshine State Conference rival Nova Southeastern in games played in Ft. Lauderdale.
Without a doubt, the leader of the Blazers is Michael Panaggio, who has come off the bench in both games to average 17.5 points and 31.5 minutes per game. A high-scoring team, the Blazers are averaging 82.5 points per game but are surrendering 83 points in a contest. Not very efficient from behind the 3-point arc, Valdosta State is 25 percent true from long-range but have still hoisted up over 50 attempts just two games in.
All participants in the CoverItLive blog are encouraged to ask moderated questions and support the Lions in a respectful manner.
In addition, Twitter and Facebook updates will be available throughout the contest, along with live audio and video provided by the host Blazers. All multimedia links (except for CoverItLive) can be found on the men's basketball schedule page at http://www.saintleolions.com/sports/mbkb/2011-12/schedule.
CoverItLive link can be found here.
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