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Gigabyte GA-7PESH1 Review: A Dual Processor Motherboard through a Scientist's Eyesby Ian Cutress on 1/5/2013 10:00 AM EST
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Hulk - Saturday, January 05, 2013 - linkI had no idea you were so adept with mathematics. "Consider a point in space..." Reading this brought me back to Finite Element Analysis in college! I am very impressed. Being a ME I would have preferred some flow models using the Navier-Stokes equations, but hey I like chemistry as well. Reply
IanCutress - Saturday, January 05, 2013 - linkI never did any FEM so wouldn't know where to start. The next angle of testing would have been using a C++ AMP Fluid Dynamics Simulation and adjusting the code from the SDK example like with the n-Body testing. If there is enough interest, I could spend a few days organising it for the normal motherboard reviews :)
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mayankleoboy1 - Saturday, January 05, 2013 - linkHow the frick did you get the i7-3770K to *5.4GHZ* ? :shock:
How the frick did you get the i7-3770K to *5.0GHZ* ? :shock: Reply
IanCutress - Saturday, January 05, 2013 - linkA few members of the Overclock.net HWBot team helped testing by running my benchmark while they were using DICE/LN2/Phase Change for overclocking contests (i.e. not 24/7 runs). The i7-3770K will go over 7 GHz if (a) you get a good chip, (b) cool it down enough, and (c) know what you are doing. If you're interested in competitive overclocking, head over to HWBot, Xtreme Systems or Overclock.net - there are plenty of people with info to help you get started.
Ian Reply
JlHADJOE - Tuesday, January 08, 2013 - linkThe incredible performance of those overclocked Ivy bridge systems here really hammers home the importance of raw IPC. You can spend a lot of time optimizing code, but IPC is free speed when it's available. Reply
jd_tiger - Saturday, January 05, 2013 - linkhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ccoj5lhLmSQ Reply
smonsees - Saturday, January 05, 2013 - linkYou might try modifying your algorithm to pin the data to a specific core (therefore cache) to keep the thrashing as low as possible. Google "processor affinity c++". I will admit this adds complexity to your straightforward algorithm. In C#, I would use a parallel loop with a range partition to do it as a starting point: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd560853.a... Reply
nickgully - Saturday, January 05, 2013 - linkMr. Cutress,
Do you think with all the virtualized CPU available, researchers will still build their own system as it is something concrete to put into a grant application, versus the power-by-the-hour of cloud computing?
Thanks. Reply
IanCutress - Saturday, January 05, 2013 - linkWe examined both scenarios. Our university had cluster time to buy, and there is always the Amazon cloud. In our calculation, getting a 16 thread machine from Dell paid for itself in under six months of continuous running, and would not require a large adjustment in the way people were currently coding (i.e. staying in Windows rather than moving to Linux), and could also be passed down the research group when newer hardware is released.
If you are using production level code and manipulating it each time to get results, and you can guarantee the results will be good each time, then power-by-the-hour could work. As we were constantly writing and testing new code for different scenarios, the build/buy your own workstation won out. Having your own system also helps in building GPU codes, if you want to buy a better GPU card it is easier to swap out rather than relying on a cloud computing upgrade.
Ian Reply
jtv - Sunday, January 06, 2013 - linkOne big consideration is who the researchers are. I work in x-ray spectroscopy (as a computational theorist). Experimentalists in this field use some of our codes without wanting to bother with having big computational resources. We have looked at trying to provide some of our codes through some cloud-based service so that it can be used on demand.
Otherwise I would agree with Ian's reply. When I'm improving code, debugging code, or trying to implement new theoretical approaches I absolutely want my own hardware to do it on. Reply
mayankleoboy1 - Saturday, January 05, 2013 - linkIan :
How much difference do you think Xeon Phi will make in these very different type of Computations?
Will buying a Xeon Phi "pay itself out" as you said in the above comments ? (or is xeon phi linux only ?) Reply
IanCutress - Saturday, January 05, 2013 - linkAs far as we know, Xeon Phi will be released for Linux only to begin with. I have friends who have been able to play with them so far, and getting 700 GFlops+ in DGEMM in double precision.
It always comes down to the algorithm with these codes. It seems that if you have single precision code that doesn't mind being in a 2P system, then the GPU route may be preferable. If not, then Phi is an option. I'm hoping to get my hands on one inside H1 this year. I just have to get my hands dirty with Linux as well.
In terms of the codes used here, if I were to guess, the Implicit Finite Difference would probably benefit a lot from Xeon Phi if it works the way I hope it does.
Ian Reply
mayankleoboy1 - Saturday, January 05, 2013 - linkRather stupid question, but have you tried using PGO builds ?
Also, do you build the code with the default optimizations, or use the MSVC equivalent switch of -O2 ? Reply
IanCutress - Saturday, January 05, 2013 - linkUsing Visual Studio 2012, all the speed optimisations were enabled including /GL, /O2, /Ot and /fp:fast. For each part I analysed the sections which took the most time using the Performance Analysis tools, and tried to avoid the long memory reads. Hence the Ex-FD uses an iterative loading which actually boosts speed by a good 20-30% than without it.
Ian Reply
Klimax - Sunday, January 06, 2013 - linkInteresting. Why not Ox (all optimisations on)
BTW: Do you have access to VTune? Reply
IanCutress - Wednesday, January 09, 2013 - linkIn case /Ox performs an optimisation for memory over speed in an attempt to balance optimisations. As speed is priority #1, it made more sense to me to optimise for that only. If VS2012 gave more options, I'd adjust accordingly.
Never heard of VTune, but I did use the Performance Analysis tools in VS2012 to optimise certain parts of the code.
Ian Reply
Beenthere - Saturday, January 05, 2013 - linkBusiness and mobo makers do not use 2P mobos to get high benches or performance bragging rights per se. These systems are build for bullet-proof reliability and up time. It does no good for a mobo/system to be 3% faster if it crashes while running a month long analysis. These 2P mobos are about 100% reliability, something rarely found in a enthusiasts mobo.
Enterprise mobos are rarely sold by enthusiast marketeers. Newegg has a few enterprise mobos listed primarily because they have started a Newegg Biz website to expand their revenue streams. They don't have much in the line of true enterprise hardware however. It's a token offering because manufacturers are not likely to support whoring of the enterprise market lest they lose all of their quality vendors who provide customer technical product support. Reply
psyq321 - Sunday, January 06, 2013 - linkActually, ASUS Z9PE-D8 WS allows for some overclocking capabilities.
CPU overclocking with 2P/4P Xeon E5 (2600/4600 sequence) is a no-go because Intel explicitly did not store proper ICC data so it is impossible to manipulate BCLK meaningfully (set the different ratios). Oh, and the multipliers are locked :)
However, Z9PE D8 WS allows memory overclocking - I managed to run 100% 24/7 stable with the Samsung ECC 1600 DDR3 "low voltage" RAM (16 GB sticks) - just switching memory voltage from 1.35v to 1.55v allows overclocking memory from 1600 MHz to 2133 MHz.
Why would anyone want to do that in a scientific or b2b environment? The only usage I can see are applications where memory I/O is the biggest bottleneck. Large-scale neural simulations are one of such applications, and getting 10 GB/s more of memory I/O can help a lot - especially if stable.
Also, low-latency trading applications are known to benefit from overclocked hardware and it is, in fact, used in production environment.
Modern hardware does tend to have larger headrooms between the manufacturer's operating point and the limits - if the benefit from an overclock is more benefitial than work invested to find the point where the results become unstable - and, of course, shorter life span of the hardware - then, it can be used. And it is used, for example in some trading scenarios. Reply
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JlHADJOE - Tuesday, January 08, 2013 - linkOf course there are lots of smart people on G+! You're all google employees right? =P Reply
Activate: AMD - Saturday, January 05, 2013 - linkAs a fellow chemist, I must say that you have to be some kind of nut to want to do computational/physical chemistry. If you need me, I'll be at the bench!
Good article too! Reply
engrpiman - Saturday, January 05, 2013 - linkI didn't read the article in full but what I did read was top notch. I found your simulations and mathematics very interesting. I took a Physics class which was focused in writing code to run mathematical simulations . Using the given java lib. I wrote my own code to calculate PI. When I returned from the gym the program had calculated 3.1 . I then re-wrote the program from scratch and ditched the built in libs. and reran. I had 20 decimals in 30 sec it was an epic improvement.
All in all I think your article could be very useful to me.
Thanks for writing. Reply
SodaAnt - Saturday, January 05, 2013 - linkTHIS is why I read Anandtech. I'll admit that I wasn't quite in the mood to read all the equations (I'll have to do that later), but really, these kind of reviews make my day. Reply
Cardio - Saturday, January 05, 2013 - linkWonderful review...as always. Thanks Reply
Hakon - Saturday, January 05, 2013 - linkHi Ian. Thanks for the nice article. I have one suggestion regarding the explicit finite difference code:
You could try to reorder the loops such that the memory access is more cache friendly. Right now 'pos' is incremented by NX (or even NX*NY in 3D) which will generate a lot cache misses for large grids. If you switch the x and the y loop (in the 2D case) this can be avoided. Reply
IanCutress - Saturday, January 05, 2013 - linkEither way I order the loops, each point has to read one up, one down, one left and one right. My current code tries to keep three as consecutive reads and jump once, keeping the old jump in local memory. If I adjusted the loops, I could keep the one dimension in local memory, but I'd have to jump outside twice (both likely cache misses) to get the other data. I couldn't cache those two values as I never use them again in the loop iteration.
When I did this code on the GPU, one method was to load an XY block into memory and iterate in the Z-dimension, meaning that each thread per loop iteration only loaded one element, with a few of them loading another for the halo, but all cache aligned.
I hope that makes sense :)
Ian Reply
Hakon - Saturday, January 05, 2013 - linkYes, but when you access the array 'cA' at 'pos' the CPU will fetch the entire cache line (64 byte in case of your machine, i.e. 16 floats) of the corresponding memory address into the CPU cache. That means that subsequent accesses to say 'pos + 1', 'pos + 2' and so on will be served by the cache. Accessing an array in such a sequential manner is therefore fast.
However, when you access an array in a nasty way, e.g. 'NX + x' -> '2*NX + x', -> '3*NX + x', then each such access implies a trip to main memory if NX happens to be large.
That you need to move up / down and sideways in memory does not matter. When you write down the accesses of the code with the reordered loops you will notice that they just access three "lines" in memory in a cache friendly way.
Not reusing the old values of the last iteration should not affect performance in a measurable way. Even if the compiler fails to see this optimization, the accesses will be served by the L1 cache.
Btw, did you allocate the array having NUMA in mind, i.e. did you initialize your memory in an OpenMP loop with the same access pattern as used in the algorithms? I am a bit surprised by the bad performance of your dual Xeon system. Reply
IanCutress - Saturday, January 05, 2013 - linkMemory was allocated via the new command as it is 1D. When using a 2D array the program was much slower. I was unaware you could allocate memory in an OpenMP way, which thinking about it could make the 2D array quicker. I also tried writing the code using the PPL and lambdas, but that was also slower than a simple OpenMP loop.
I'm coming at these algorithms from the point of view of a non-CompSci interested in hardware, and the others in the research group were chemists content to write single threaded code on multi-core machines. Transferring the OpenMP variations of that code from a 1P to a 2P, as the results show, give variable results depending on the algorithm.
There are always ways to improve the efficiency of the code (and many ways to make it unreadable), but for a large part moving to the 2P system all depends on how your code performs. Please understand that my examples being within my limits of knowledge and representative of the research I did :) I know that SSE2/SSE4/AVX would probably help, but I have never looked into those. More often than not, these environments are all about research throughput, so rather than spend a few week to improve efficiency by 10% (or less), they'd rather spend that money getting a faster system which theoretically increases the same code throughput 100%.
I'll have a look at switching the loops if I write an article similar to this in the future :)
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Hakon - Saturday, January 05, 2013 - linkThank you for the detailed answer. I very much appreciate your article and hope to see more stuff like this on Anandtech.
What I meant regarding to NUMA is the following. When you have a dual socket Xeon you have two memory controllers. The first time you 'touch' a memory location it is assigned to the memory controller of the CPU that runs the current thread. This assignment is in general permanent and all further memory read/writes to that location will be served by that memory controller.
If you first-touch (e.g. initialize the array to zero) using one thread, then the whole array is assigned to one of the two memory controllers. When you then run the multi-threaded code on that array one memory controller is idle while the other is oversubscribed since it has to serve both CPUs.
In contrast, if you first-touch your array in an OpenMP loop and use the same access pattern as in the algorithm, you will benefit from both memory controllers later on. In this case your large array is correctly 'distributed' over both memory controllers.
This kind of memory layout optimization becomes extremely important when you deal with quad socket Opterons. You then have eight memory controllers. A NUMA aware code is therefore up to eight times as fast since it utilizes all memory controllers. Reply
toyotabedzrock - Saturday, January 05, 2013 - linkYou should go ask the people on the assembly boards for help with making your code faster.
They are very friendly compared to a Linux kernel devs, I think they just enjoy the acknowledgement that they still exist and are useful. Reply
snajpa - Saturday, January 05, 2013 - linkBlame the scheduler. Neither Windows nor linux can effectively handle larger NUMA systems. It randomly moves the process across the physical hardware. Reply
psyq321 - Sunday, January 06, 2013 - linkHmm, this is definitely not true at least for Windows Server 2008 R2 / Windows 7, and I am sure it holds true for some versions of Linux (I am not a Linux expert).
Windows Server 2008 R2 / Windows 7 scheduler will try to match the memory allocations (even if they are not tagged for a specific NUMA node) with the NUMA node the process/thread resides on, and they will not move a thread to a foreign NUMA node unless if that has been explicitly requested by the application (by setting the thread affinity)
Of course, without explicit NUMA node tagging when doing allocations, application code is the main culprit for not respecting the NUMA layout (e.g. creating bunch of threads, allocating memory from one of them - and then pinning the threads to different CPUs - you will have lots of LLC requests from remote DRAM because memory was a-priori allocated on one node).
For this - some sane coding helps a lot, here:
I describe how I extracted more than double performance by careful memory allocation (NUMA-aware) - please note that neither Windows nor Linux scheduler is able to cope with code which is not written to be NUMA aware and it is using large number of threads that are supposed to run on all CPUs.. Simply put, application writer will have to manage memory allocation and usage in the way so that there are as little remote DRAM requests as possible. Reply
snajpa - Sunday, January 06, 2013 - linkAbout Windows scheduler - I only worked with Windows XP, now I don't have any reason to work with Win anymore, so what you say probably is really true. As for the linux versions - well, long story short, CFS sucks and everyone knows it - this is particularly noticeable if you have fully virtualized VMs which appear as one single process at the host system - the process is randomly swapped between CPU cores and even CPU dies.... sad story. That's why people have to pin their CPUs to their tasks manually. Reply
psyq321 - Sunday, January 06, 2013 - linkAh, XP - that explains it. True, XP did not care about NUMA at all.
Windows Server 2008 / Vista introduced NUMA-aware memory allocations, and changed their CPU scheduler so it does not move the thread across NUMA nodes. They will also try to allocate the memory from the thread's own NUMA node when legacy VirtualAlloc etc. APIs are used.
Windows Server 2008 R2 / Windows 7 introduced the concept of CPU groups - allowing more than 64 CPUs. This does require some adaptation of the application, as old threading APIs only work with 64-bit affinity bitmask which only allowed recognizing 64 CPUs. Now, there is a new set of APIs that work with GROUP_AFFINITY structure, allowing control of CPU groups, too. However, this needs explicit change of the legacy process/threading APIs to the new ones.
Furthermore, none of the above can replace some manual intervention*- while Windows scheduler will, indeed, respect NUMA node boundaries and not try to mess around with moving threads across them - it still does not know what the underlying algorithm wants to do.
* There is no need to set the thread affinity to one specific CPU anymore - this prevents running the thread on any other CPU completely. Instead, there is an API called SetThreadIdealProcessor(Ex) which signals Windows scheduler that thread >should< run on that particular CPU - but, under certain circumstances the scheduler can move the thread somewhere else - if the CPU is completely taken away by some other thread/process. Scheduler will try to move the thread as close as possible - to the next core in the socket, for example - or to the next core in the group (group is always contained within a NUMA node).
You can, however, absolutely forbid Windows scheduler from passing the thread to another NUMA node under any circumstances by simply getting the said NUMA node affinity mask (GetNumaNodeProcessorMask(Ex)) and setting this affinity as a thread affinity. This + setting the "ideal" processor still gives Windows scheduler some headroom to move the thread to another core if it is found to be better in a given moment, but it will not even attempt to cross the NUMA boundary in any case whatsoever. Reply
lmcd - Monday, January 07, 2013 - linkWhile I haven't personally researched them, there are tons of other schedulers that have been written for Linux and I'm certain *at least* one of them is more fitting to this line of work. I've heard of alternatives like BFS and the Linux kernel is so widely used I'm sure there's a gem out there for this application. Reply
toyotabedzrock - Saturday, January 05, 2013 - linkHave you ever tried the Intel Math Kernel Library? It might speed up some of the equations. It also hands off work to the Intel MIC card if it thinks it will speed it up.
http://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-mkl/ Reply
KAlmquist - Saturday, January 05, 2013 - linkThe GA-7PESH1 motherboard is $855, and the CPU's are $2020 each, which adds up to $4895. On tasks which don't parallelize well, you can get similar performance from the i7-3770K, which costs an order of magnitude less. (Prices: i7-3770K $320, ASRock Z77 Extreme6 motherboard $152, total from motherboard and CPU $472.) On tasks which parallelize well enough that they can be run on a GPU, the system with the GA-7PESH1 will beat the i7-3770K, but will be crushed by a midrange GPU. So the price/performance of this system is pretty bad unless you throw just the right workload at it.
The motherboard price from super-laptop-parts dot com, and the other prices are from a major online retailer that I won't name in order to get around the spam filter. Reply
Death666Angel - Saturday, January 05, 2013 - linkSo, your 3770K has ECC memory or VT-D, TXT etc.? Reply
nevertell - Sunday, January 06, 2013 - linkThe K version may not, but the standard i7-3770 does in fact support VT-D, TXT and ECC memory from the get go. Vt-D has to be also supported by the motherboard, which may be problematic on consumer motherboards. I have a i5-2400 myself, and Vt-d is a pain to setup and to this day I still haven't found out whether is it that I am unable to set up Xen properly or just that my cheap motherboard worn't support VT-d, to properly assign a video card to a virtual machine. Reply
KAlmquist - Sunday, January 06, 2013 - linkThe 3770K lacks those features, but that doesn't invalidate my point.
Using ECC memory improves system availability, and likely decreases the probability of undetected errors resulting in incorrect computations. If these are important to you, then you should be thinking about full double or triple redundancy. Why not buy three 3770K based systems and run the same simulation on all of them? Most of the time you will get identical results on all three systems, but on rare occasions one of the systems will die during the run. No problem; you have the simulation results from the other two systems. On even rarer occasions, one of the systems will produced an incorrect result due to an undetected bit error. Again no problem; you take the results from the two simulations that agree.
With full redundancy it doesn't matter where in the system the error occurs because full redundancy addresses faults anywhere in the system. This makes it superior to ECC memory, which only addresses faults in the memory subsystem. So the only reason to go with ECC memory instead of full triple redundancy is if the ECC memory approach costs less. Based on the numbers I posted, you aren't going to get a lower cost based on hardware costs alone. Possibly you could get there by including administrative costs and the like.
I'm not saying that the system Ian tested wouldn't make sense under *any* circumstances. My point is that the system has a poor price performance ratio, so it only makes sense when a lot of things are working in its favor.
The second feature you mention is VT-D, which makes it more efficient to emulate device hardware in virtual machines. I don't have any benchmarks, but my guess is that the performance improvement from VT-D is fairly small. In any case, if you want VT-D you can buy the 3770 rather than the 3770K. You can't overclock the 3770, but my comments about the 3770K offering "similar performance" were based primarily on the performance of the 3770K at stock frequency. If you assume that everyone is going to take the time to find an optimal overclock for their CPU, then the E5-2690 (which cannot be overclocked) looks even worse.
I suppose it's off topic to debate the merits of "trusted execution technology" here, so I will simply note that if for whatever reason you want a processor that supports it, the solution is the same as for VT-D: get the 3770 instead of the 3770K. Reply
Kevin G - Saturday, January 05, 2013 - linkA very well written article that sticks toward its purpose: scientific computing. Really pleased to see articles like this on the site even if I have a few minor quibbles.
On page 2 "To those unfamiliar with server boards, of note is the connector just to the right of center of the picture above." is either oddly worded to describe the front panel connector at the bottom the board (which is indeed right of center but not in the center of the picture) or describing a connector that isn't even documented in the manual. For clarification I'm looking at the connector just right of the top PCI-E 16x slot (above and to the left of the battery). Actually, what is that connector labeled as? I've seen it on other Xeon boards but have never seen it used.
The last paragraph on page 2 should read omits the possibility of nonbuffered ECC memory and implies the usage of unbuffered non-ECC memory. I haven't found confirmation that this board can accept unbuffered, non-ECC memory (opposed to the possibility of an ECC requirement as some server vendors enforce).
A couple of notes on the little processor talk on page 6. Dealing with cache thrashing between L3 and L2 is possible but when dealing with a high number of threads general coherency becomes a bigger factor. The overhead is beginning to exceed the benefit of having the additional hardware to run them. If you're lucky to be dealing with an algorithm that doesn't need such coherency overhead, then chances are it is very ideal for GPU compute (and memory capacity isn't a factor). A minor nicety would have been to see some more testing without Hyperthreading on the i7-3770k, i7-3930k, and i7-3960X to better indicate scaling with/without Hyperthreading. I suspect that those single socket processors would have been able to show some small gains with Hyperthreading where the dual socket system did not.
An extension to the L2/L3 cache talk on page 6 is the move to dual sockets and NUMA. There is a performance penalty due to latency for having one thread access memory that is found on a remote socket. Memory mirroring between sockets can eliminate that remote penalty while increasing RAS but at the cost of halving effective memory capacity. The manual isn't clear if mirroring mode or the lockstep mode is across different sockets (it can be done across memory channels as well).
I'd also would have loved to have heard some comparisons with the Gigabyte GA-X79S-UP5. While the name implies an X79 chipset, it uses the C606 chipset. It'll support ECC memory with socket 2011 Xeons and plenty of over clocking features (for the daring). Comparing the GA-7PESH1 to the GA-X79S-UP5 would have been able to answer if the move to dual sockets would have been worth the extra cost. Reply
Hakon - Saturday, January 05, 2013 - linkSomehow does read like an anonymous peer review :-) Reply
Kevin G - Sunday, January 06, 2013 - linkA little bit. :)
Part of my criticism isn't about the article itself but rather the general state of massively multithreaded hardware and software. The hardware portion is quickly running into software limitation that were never expected to be reached in the professional space. A decade ago who thought that a scientist could purchase a 240 simultaneous thread processor that would fit on a mere expansion card? In some cases we don't reach Amdal's Law before hitting an artificial barrier due to scheduling or coherency overhead.
I just noticed that the system was using Win 7 Professional which has a limit of 64 concurrent threads per process. A quad socket LGA 2011 config would actually be at the very limit of what Window 7 (or rather 2008R2 since professional only scales to two sockets) can handle. OpenMP can handle more than 64 concurrent threads but on Windows it has to submit this limitation. Reply
psyq321 - Sunday, January 06, 2013 - linkAs for the GA-X79S-UP5 Clocking features are only working for 1P Xeons, which are basically similar to HEDT i7 (36xx) line. With those, customer has an advantage of ECC RAM support and still some overclocking headroom.
Clocking 2P/4P Xeons E5 (sadly, these are the only 8-core parts so far) is next to impossible due to the lack of ICC configuration data allowing changing BCLK ratios. These Xeons can only be bumped by direct BCLK increase, which is dangerous above few MHz. At most, 5-6 MHz is feasible as tested on ASUS Z9PE-D8-WS and EVGA SR-X boards.
Memory overclocking is another matter, completely. I have excellent results with Samsung's 1.35v ("low voltage") ECC RAM. It is not just the cheapest 16 GB ECC option (~$160 for the 16 GB ECC stick last time I checked, I got mine for 140 EUR in Germany 7 months ago), but it is the fastest while still keeping the low voltage. This RAM can be overclocked to 2133 MHz by a simple voltage bump to 1.55v, which is still within Xeon's VSa limits. Reply
Kevin G - Sunday, January 06, 2013 - linkWeird that Intel doesn't provide the ICC configuration data. The 'gear ratio' change is something I'd still expect to change on true X79 boards regardless of processors (I can see Intel crippling this on C600 series). Then again, I've heard some weird situations with LGA 2011 Xeons in desktop boards. There are some scattered reports of unlocked chips but as the internet goes there are lots of speculation and rumors but little real confirmation.
Those Samsung 16 GB ECC sticks are registered? I thought that the GA-X79S-UP5 didn't registered DIMMs.
As for the ability to overclock those low voltage DIMMs, not really surprised as they've historically been impressive in that regards. I have some older 4 GB 1.35v DDR3-1333 rated sticks that can go to 1866 Mhz at 1.5v. :) The timings had to be changed but still impressive. Reply
PEPCK - Saturday, January 05, 2013 - linkWorth noting that the three miniSAS connectors yield 8 SAS and 4 SATA connectors in the specification table. Reply
krumme - Sunday, January 06, 2013 - linkFor this article Ian get the über nerds Gold Award only given ones in a century Reply
lowenz - Sunday, January 06, 2013 - linkA brilliant article.
More of these, please. Reply
dj christian - Monday, January 14, 2013 - linkNo please!
This article should be a one time only or once every 2 years at most. Reply
nadana23 - Sunday, January 06, 2013 - linkFrom the looks of results some of the benchmarks are HIGHLY sensitive to effective bandwidth per thread (ie, GDDR5 feeding a GPU stream processor >> DDR3 feeding a Xeon HT core).
However - it must be noted that 8x DIMMS is insufficient to achieve full memory bandwidth on Xeon E5 2S!
I'd suggest throwing a pure memory bandwidth test into the mix to make sure you're actually getting the rated number (51.2GB/s)...
... as I strongly suspect your memory config is crippling results.
Dell's 12G config guidelines are as good a place as any to start on this :-
Simply removing one E5-2590 and moving to 1-Package, 8 DIMM config may (counter-intuitively) bench(market) faster... for you. Reply
dapple - Sunday, January 06, 2013 - linkGreat article, thanks! This is the sort of benchmark I've been wanting to see for quite some time now - simple, brute-force numerics where the code is visible and straightforward. Too many benchmarks are black boxes with processor- and compiler-specific tunes to make manufacturer "X" appear superior to "Y". That said, it would be most illustrative to perform a similar 'mark using vanilla gcc on both MS and *nix OS. Reply
daosis - Sunday, January 06, 2013 - linkIt is long known issue, when windows does not start after changing hardware, especially GPU (not always so). There is as long known trick so. Just before last "power off" one should replace GPU's own driver with basic microsoft's one. In case of GPU it is "standart Vga adapter" (device manager - update driver - browse my computer - let me pick up). In fact one can replace all specific drivers on OS with similiar basic from MS and then to put this hard drive virtually to any system without any need for fresh install. Mind you, that after first boot it takes some time for OS to find and install specific drivers. Reply
jamesf991 - Sunday, January 06, 2013 - linkIn the early '70s I was doing very similar simulations using a PDP 11/40 minicomputer. (I can send citations to my publications if anyone is interested.) At Texas Tech and later at Caltech, I simulated systems involving heterogeneous electron transfer kinetics, various chemical reactions in solution, coulostatics, galvanostatics, voltammetry, chronocoulometry, AC voltammetry, migration, double layer effects, solution hydrodynamics (laminar only), etc. Much of this was done on a PDP 11/40, originally with 8K words (= 16K bytes) of core memory. Later the machine was upgraded to 24 K words (!), we got a floating point board, and a hard disk drive (5 M words, IIRC). My research director probably paid in excess of $50K for the hardware. One cute project was to put a simulation "inside" a nonlinear regression routine to solve for electrode kinetic parameters such as k and alpha. Each iteration of the nonlinear solver required a new simulation -- hand-coding the innermost loops using floating point assembly instructions was a big speedup!
I wonder how the old PDP would stack up against the 3770? Reply
flynace - Monday, January 07, 2013 - linkDo you guys think that once Haswell moves the VRM on package that someone might do a 2 socket mATX board?
Even if it means giving up 2 of the 4 PCIe slots and/or 2 DIMMs per socket it would be nice to have a high core count standard SFF board for those that need just that. Reply
samsp99 - Monday, January 07, 2013 - linkI found this review interesting, but I don't think this board is really targeted at the HPC market. It seems like it would be good as part of a 2U / 12 + 2 drive system, similar to the Dell C2100. It would make a good virtual host, SQL, active web server etc. Having the 3 mSAS connectors would enable 4 drive each without the need for a SAS expander.
Servers are designed for 99.999% uptime, remote management, and hands-off operation. To achieve that you need redundent power, UPS, Networking, storage etc. They also require high airflow, which is noisy and not something you want sitting under your desk. Based on that, it makes sense that the MB is intended for sale to system builders not your general build your own enthusiast.
HW manufactuerers are faced with a similar problem to airlines - consumers gravitate to the cheapest price, and so the only real money to be made is selling higher profit margin products to businesses. Servers are where intel etc makes their profits.
For the computational problems the author is trying to solve, to me it would seem to be better to consider:
a) At one point, I think google was using commodity hardware, with custom shelving etc. Assuming the algorithms can be paralleled on different hosts, you shouldn't need the reliability of traditional servers, so why not use a number of commodity systems together, choosing the components that have the best perf/$.
b) There are machines designed for HPC scenarios, such as HPC Systems E5816 that supports 8x Xeon E7-8000 (10 core) processors, or the E4002G8 - that will take 8 nVidia Tesla cards.
c) What about developing and testing the software on cheap worstations, and then when you are sure its ready, buying compute time from Amazon cloud services etc. Reply
babysam - Monday, January 07, 2013 - linkIt is quite delighting to look at your review on Anandtech (especially when I am using software and computer configurations of similar nature for my studies), as it is quite difficult for me to evaluate the performance gain of "real-life" software (i.e. science oriented in my case) on new hardware before buying.
From what I have seen in your code segments provided (especially for the n-body simulation part) , there are large amount of floating-point divisions. Is there any possibility that the code is not only limited by the cache size(and thrashing), but by the limited throughput of the floating-point divider? (i.e. The performance degradations when HT is enabled may also be caused by the competition of the two running threads on the only floating-point divider in the core) Reply
SanX - Tuesday, January 08, 2013 - linkif you post zipped sources and exes for anyone to follow, learn, play, argue and eventually improve.
I'd also preferred to see Fortran sources and benchmarks when possible.
Intel/AMD should start promote 2/4/8 socket monster mobos for enthusiasts and then general public since this is the beginning of the infinite in time era for multiprocessing.
Also where are games benchmarks like for example GTA4 which benefits a lot from multicores as well as from GPUs? Reply
IanCutress - Wednesday, January 09, 2013 - linkThe n-body simulations are part of the C++ AMP example page, free for everyone to use. The rest of the code is part of a benchmark package I'm creating, hence I only give the loops in the code. Unfortunately I know no Fortran for benchmarks.
Most mainstream users (i.e. gamers) still debate whether 4 or 6 cores are even necessary, so moving to 2P/4P/8P is a big leap in that regard. Enthusiasts can still get the large machines (a few folders use quad AMD setups) if they're willing to buy from ebay which may not always be wholly legal. You may see 2P/4P/8P becoming more mainstream when we start to hit process node limits.
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JonnyDough - Tuesday, January 08, 2013 - linkI don't know if I speak for everyone, but I would really love to see some gaming benchmarks.
I realize that this system is not designed or optimized for gaming, but it would be interesting nonetheless to see what two processors does, or does not do for gaming. :) Reply
npcomplete - Tuesday, January 08, 2013 - link...it just gets to the meat of computing!
Thanks for this article. It woke up the scientist in me. Reply
esung - Wednesday, January 09, 2013 - linkI'm very curious as the result. Have you tried to bench 1 2690 vs 2 2690s? It almost like the benchmark are limited by CPU frequency instead of threads/cores it has. Reply
CodeToad - Saturday, January 19, 2013 - linkIan - I really enjoyed reading your effort here. There is a large, and I think underserved, community of scientific users who need this kind of information. Digging through IEEE/ASM communications is often just too much. Doing the work here - or anywhere - is a real help.
I'm a retired economist (PhD Chicago, '81) and (in my case) thankfully haven't done physical, much less computational, chemistry since undergrad. Never the less, we have similar technical needs.
I've become a huge fan of open source software. In my "home lab," which my wife calls The Frat House, some grad students and I have been diligently working with the R Language (statistics), nascent risk and optimization tools, and a mash-up of database, data warehouse, and "business intelligence" tools, all open source. The goal someday -- beat SAS silly and obviate that $100-300K price tag!
The more demure and do-able daily work is just cleaning up and optimizing open source code, contributing that back as individual packages. The "hits" and email indicates a good adoption rate.
Ian, CUDA is of big interest to the people we're in communication with, and I have to admit some real fascination personally. As you have real-world experience, how about a series of articles. I hope ANDATECH would support that work!!
Very best to you - hope to be "reading" you soon!! Reply


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I'm not going to blow smoke at you, the Mets are a troubled bunch right now, regardless of the positive spin David Wright puts on things.
What I take from last night was another bad outing from John Maine. With Orlando Hernandez probably out for the first round (I still think they'll win the division), the Mets will need both him and Oliver Perez.
I don't have confidence in either, and with Tom Glavine and Pedro Martinez six-inning pitchers these days for the most part, we figure to see the bullpen for at least six innings in the first two games. And, more with Perez and Maine.
That doesn't give me a good feeling at all.

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text: English citizen Peter Venner (63), who participated in the 'On the road to Palestine, Gaza' drive, embraced Islam two days before he got on board the ship Mavi Marmara. Venner who changed his name to Muhammad told that he will surely participate again in case of any new drive fleet set sail. "This is a human tragedy. Nobody can keep his silence to that call for help if he has a conscience." Mehmet Serif Neziplioglu from Gaziantep, Turkey, an Al – Azhar graduate, expressed that he met Muhammad on the ship and taught him how to read the Qur'an; "We were always together on the ship. Muhammad is very clever… He learned to read the Qur'an only in two hours. We will see each other in the future." Said Neziplioglu.


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Latvia President confuses Turkmenistan and Turkey
Just recently the President of Latvia, Andris Berzins, threatened TV operator, who was filming him and his son attending September 1 school events. Now he is again coming under the spotlight.
Speaking at a press conference, Berzins called Turkmenistan President, Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedo, the president of Turkey.
"We highly appreciate the Turkish President and the Turkish delegation's visit to Latvia. We believe that it will be very important," he said solemnly.
Turkmenistan President is visiting Latvia, so that both of the countries can discuss economic cooperation.
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Linda @ 2017-08-11 21:13:15
Does Terras honestly think that Russia would reveal hand and sensitive info to observers .... Konstantin Päts made that mistake of "knowing the Russians" .. and we saw those consequences. GOVERNMENT HEALTH WARNING!
Ilmars @ 2017-08-10 10:32:41
Aboltina should be in jail for what she did to Latvia, not to mention her own political party Unity. The festering corruption, and her sleazy backroom deals were a national disgrace. For example, the reason that Lembergs party UGF (who only got 20% of the vote), has the presidentcy and the prime ministership is because Aboltina intimidated, coerced or bribed her Unity colleagues to vote, not for for her own party, but for Lembergs party. The real reason she wont be standing for parliament, let alone the Unity leadership, is because Unity is about to get wiped out electorally. Unity has become a bunch of rats leaving a sinking ship, and the biggest rat getting out is Aboltina.
Linda @ 2017-08-09 22:07:33
Aigars @ 2017-08-09 11:34:55
Lembergs will be soon 64. We should be able to have a "good riddance" party by the 2030's. "Ding dong the witch is dead" was UK hit parade number 1 after Thatcher's death. Surely us Latvians can do better!
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A Wilson County woman is charged in an indictment with TennCare fraud for allegedly falsely reporting her income in order to appear eligible for the states healthcare insurance program.
The Office of Inspector General (OIG), with assistance from Wilson County Sheriffs Department, announced the arrest of Wanda June Williams, 53, of Mt. Juliet. She was charged with one count of TennCare fraud and two counts of theft of services in connection with falsely reported her resources to the state in order to access healthcare benefits through TennCare.
If you lie, cheat or steal to get TennCare benefits, you risk going to jail, having to pay the state for the services, and possibly losing the privilege of applying for TennCare in the future, Inspector General Deborah Faulkner said.
TennCare fraud is a Class E felony carrying a sentence of up to two years in prison. Theft of services over $1,000 but less than $10,000 is a Class D felony that carries a maximum sentence of four years in prison. Theft of services over $10,000 is a Class C felony that carries a penalty of six years in prison. District Attorney General Tom P. Thompson is prosecuting.
Through the OIG Cash for Tips Program established by the Legislature, Tennesseans can get cash rewards for TennCare fraud tips that lead to convictions. Anyone can report suspected TennCare fraud by calling 1-800-433-3982 toll-free from anywhere in Tennessee, or log on to www.tn.gov/tnoig and follow the prompts that read "Report TennCare Fraud."


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Gamasutra writes: I just couldn't take it anymore.
I was about 15 hours into Far Cry 3, and the next mission involved sitting down to play a game of poker with the game's main villian, Hoyt.
It was sure to lead to an intense prison breakout of his heavily armed fortress, which would have been a lot of fun, but it didn't matter.
I just couldn't handle another 7 minute monologue about the nature of good and evil, or the true nature of fear or whatever I would surely be forced to watch.
Far Cry 3 is a good game. It's one of my recent favorite games, but enough was enough.
Why would you stop playing right at the end of the game.....???? I don't care how bad a game has gotten if I'm near what I think is the end I push through. But far cry 3 is amazing so no forced pushing was involved.
This game is definitely overated imo anyway. I have played a total of two hours and just like any other open world game its just full of a huge open space, few enemies, and repetitious sub missions and missions.
It is beyond me how this game received 9 and 10's when the mp is so garbage. The graphics are grainy, the mp design and animations are garbage and the red lazer kill cam is so badly done. Not to mention you can hardly get into an online game because the servers suck.
I get it the sp for some may be good and i admit they did try to add diversity as opposed to other open world games i also dislike, but come on the mp should have dropped the game down to like a 7. Games like Starhawk that are known for mp get thrashed by some reviewers for its weak sp, but almost all reviewers for Far Cry 3 just gave it a pass and didnt even factor in the mp? Wow!!!!


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SANFORD, Fla. - A committee of parents and school principals started the process of creating new attendance zones for 11 of Seminole County's 28 elementary schools that will be affected by rezoning.
The district says they're trying to balance enrollment between overcrowded schools and those with extra space, and they're looking at the percent of students who receive free or reduced lunch as a factor in drawing the lines.
"Free and reduced lunch is an indicator of diversity, you look at also your ESOL population, your ESE population, so we maintain a school system where elementary schools are as diverse and equally established as other schools," said John Reichert, HR Director for Seminole County schools.
Some parents tell Local 6 they fear property values will go down as kids are transported to schools outside the neighborhood.
"It's difficult for families to make friends, and car pool and gain a sense of community when we're all going to different directions around the county," said Jeanne Miller of Lake Mary.
Monday night was the first of four meetings for the North Phase rezoning committee. Schools involved include Heathrow, Lake Mary, Highlands, Layer, Woodlands, and Winter Springs elementaries.
The committee's plans will be submitted to Superintendent Walt Griffin, who will then make a recommendation to the School Board. The School Board is set to make the final vote on March 19.
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CONNOR BEASLEY, who signalled his intent on making a big impression this year in the apprentice ranks when riding a treble at Wolverhampton last week, can continue his excellent run at Southwell this afternoon.
The North Yorkshire claimer, who is attached to Michael Dods' Darlington yard, teams up with Newmarket trainer Chris Dwyer and can score on Hannahs Turn in the 32Red Fillies' Handicap.
Admirably consistent and a lover of this course, where she has gained all six of her career wins, Hannahs Turn finished a highly creditable third to Frontier Fighter on her latest start here in mid-February.
That form has since been franked with the winner going on to land a valuable handicap at this venue last week.
Hannahs Turn rarely runs a bad race and this looks an easier opportunity than she has faced for a little while. With the in-form Beasley claiming a valuable 5lb, she is napped to show her rivals the way home.
Norton trainer Tony Coyle is two-handed in the Bookmakers.Co.Uk Handicap and preference is for Keep It Dark, owned by York stalwart Noel Hetherton.
The gelding made an encouraging return to action over this course and distance last week when finishing a one length second to Alpha Tauri. This outing comes quickly enough for his second start after the winter off, but provided he can raise his game once again, he has every chance of going one better.
Barry McHugh takes the mount on Keep It Dark, with stable apprentice Laura Barry partnering Lost In Paris, who has yet to strike form and who ran yesterday.
Freddie Tylicki and John Jenkins have proved a pretty potent partnership on the all-weather this winter and the duo can click again with Pretty Bubbles in the Ladbrokes Handicap.
Although a beaten favourite last time out, when the race may not have been run to suit her, at Lingfield, the mare has some creditable form to her name. This is a race which may not take a lot of winning and, with her fitness guaranteed, she can get her head in front for a third time in her career.
Scarborough will be a tough nut to crack in the 32Red Thunderstruck Slot ll Handicap after his demolition job recently when he won by six lengths.
Michael Appleby is obviously keen to run him again under a penalty before the handicapper takes his revenge and 6lb extra is unlikely to halt Scarborough in today's contest.
At Wincanton, David Pipe, whose Ryanair Chase winner Dynaste is set to reappear in the Grade 1 Betfair Bowl at Aintree's opening day on Thursday, can hit the target with Off The Wall in the Red & Yella Mickey Bowley Memorial Handicap Chase.
The lightly-raced seven-year-old went down by only a length to Miss Saffron at Exeter last week, which represented an improvement in form. Off The Wall may be able to build on that performance in this long-distance event.
The Royal Artillery Gold Cup, confined to amateur riders from the military, may be best left to Benedictus following his close-up third at Leicester, while Kings Bayonet is fancied to win the Grassroots Jumps Series
Southwell today
2.35 Steele Ranger, 3.05 Keep It Dark, 3.35 Pretty Bubbles, 4.05 Scarborough, 4.35 Hannahs Turn (NAP), 5.05 Aureate, 5.35 Goldmadchen.
Wincanton today
2.15 Pressies Girl, 2.45 Supercillary, 3.15 Balbriggan, 3.45 Benedictus, 4.15 Kings Bayonet, 4.45 Off The Wall, 5.15 Jollyallan, 5.45 Shy John.
Today's other meetings
Kempton and Lingfield.
Tomorrow's meetings
Aintree, Lingfield, Taunton and Wolverhampton.


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Chanel Spring 2014 Couture
Karl Lagerfeld's exceptional Chanel couture collection embodied the concept of the "incredible lightness of being" in poetically handwoven cloth, and embroideries as light and magical as thistledown.
And after the breathtaking elaboration of the recent Chanel sets—who can forget the airplane interior, the derelict theater, the Mediterranean forest?—Karl's gleaming white, futurist "Cambon Club" (complete with white-clad orchestra) came as something of a palate cleanser, a metaphor for this collection of shimmering lightness and inventive beauty.
"There are two tendencies," Karl explained during a weekend preview that provided an unmatched opportunity to study those remarkable textiles and embellishments in the hand, "very androgyne and boyish, and very feminine. But no stiletto, no platforms, no Louboutins!" Instead, the clothes had a uniquely modern feeling as each look was matched with flat sneakers (made by the custom shoemaker Massaro, naturally) in patchworks of fabrics and embroidery—"It gives it a different attitude," explained Karl—and during the show, his girls were encouraged to run and skip down the grand horseshoe staircase, suggesting something of the sense of liberating freedom that was Coco Chanel's great contribution to early-twentieth-century fashion. "I think it's quite chic, the couture run, no?" posited Karl.
That feminine Chanel girl wore tailored suits and dresses as crisply defined as Courrèges' little sixties numbers that emphasized the shapely waist with form-fitting, shaped midriff panels, and jackets cropped short enough to expose them. The tomboy wore an all-in-one with shorts, or tunics layered over second-skin pants, and even a playful take on footballers' knee pads, and fanny packs.
The palette was pale and iridescent—tweeds threaded with metallics, mica flecks, and shining ribbons that suggested light through clouds or the inside of abalone shells—with a dash of sorbet pastels.
A trio of dark evening dresses in ballet-skirted tulle, meanwhile, had tutu peplums of feathers and reflective strips like seventies fiber-optic lamps; for Karl they looked "like some wild insect, a scarab—or a mean bird of paradise!"
And those dresses just kept romping down the stairs, a testament to the skill treasury of the legendary Chanel ateliers. The short day and cocktail clothes segued into midi-length dresses, and eventually to body-skimming, trained sheaths with a New Age flapper vibe. Each of these finale gowns was dusted with embroideries no less spectacular for being subtle and light as air, each a small miracle of workmanship.


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TAUNTON Titans will turn up at Hyde Park today to face a Hartpury side which should provide an even stiffer test than Canterbury last week.
Taunton are unbeaten at home so far this season, having beaten the likes of Ampthill and Canterbury who lie third and second in the table, and hope to add the league leaders to their tally.
They players know they have to be on top of their games to compete with Hartpury and there are also one or two other elements that have to be present if victory can be achieved according to forwards coach Chris Brown.
He said: "The motivation has to be high, and we have to believe we are capable. They are not infallible and have been beaten by four teams to date.
"For that reason, the first ingredient has to be self confidence. Hartpury are beatable.
"The next thing is set piece. You have to have at least parity, and it would be useful if you can keep all of your ball and have most of theirs.
"The collision area is also vital. The contact area must be physical, technically accurate and fast.
"The final area we need to consider is to attack with intensity and 'throw the kitchen sink' at it. As a coaching team I would rather we played the game positively and lost than played negatively.
"Hopefully the team will deliver but they will need all of the help that a home support can bring and the coaches and players hope that the 16th man of Hyde Park will turn up and cheer the players on."
Head coach Tony Yapp knows it won't be easy but said: "Hartpury are a good side with good players and are well coached.
"Hopefully though we can get a bumper crowd that will help the players feed off the atmosphere and spur them on to produce the performance that will be needed to claim the win.
"After the game the Six Nations game between France v England will be shown on the big screen in the bar so a full day of rugby can be had by all.
"Then if you want to make it a full weekend of rugby you can watch Taunton take on Burnham-On-Sea at Hyde Park on Sunday afternoon in the Somerset Cup quarter final at 2.30pm."


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - The St. Johns River shipping channel at Mayport will soon see the improvements it needs to help keep a large chunk of Jacksonville's economy stable.
On Wednesday, Jacksonville Port Authority officials and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced the start of the Mile Point Project, which will correct a problem that has inhibited Jacksonville's ability to compete globally when it comes to cargo shipping. Officials signed an agreement to start the design phase of the project.
JaxPort CEO Paul Anderson said fixing Mile Point will create 3,500 and more than 17,000 supported jobs.
Mile Point is an area outside the port that officials say desperately needs to be dredged because the channel is too small for many large cargo ships to pass through, and that's causing the city to miss out on business and jobs.
The confluence of the St. Johns River with the Intracoastal Waterway known as Mile Point creates difficult crosscurrents on the ebb tide. Large ships only have two four-hour windows to get in and out of Mile Point because of the currents.
"Imagine if these bridges to our city were only open four hours a day," Anderson said.
A lot of time and money, even opportunity is wasted because of the time restriction. Many companies aren't willing to pay for their ships to wait in the Atlantic Ocean, an estimated $10,000 every hour.
So they bypass Jacksonville, choosing other nearby ports like Savannah, Ga., to deliver and pick up cargo.
"Our competition is not Georgia and Alabama. We're competing with the world, and that's why it's so important," said Rep. Corrine Brown, D-Fla.
TraPac Inc. has invested $300 million operating a marine terminal at Dames Point. A good portion of their business -- ships coming in from Asia -- are affected by Mile Point.
"We have water vessels that actually are delayed pretty much weekly, and so when you have about 30 to 60 percent of your business that's directly impacted by Mile Point, this is a major milestone getting it corrected," said Dennis Kelly, regional vice president of TraPac Inc.
The milestone means taxpayers' money that was invested in making this port 40 feet deep so more companies would choose Jacksonville will go that much further.
"This is about jobs, this is about opportunity, and the best way for the taxpayers to get a return on their investment is investing in this port," Mayor Alvin Brown said.
The port is the second-largest employer in Jacksonville.
Now that the Army Corp of Engineers has signed off on the deal, JaxPort needs congressional action. The $2 million engineering and design portion is good to go and can start immediately.
But the entire mile point project will cost $38 million, and pending approval from Congress will be finished in 2014.
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A Santa Cruz, Calif., restaurant is serving Lakeside Organic Gardens harvesters who pick chard for its menu items at an Earth Day lunchtime celebration.
Rudy Rudolph and Carolyn Rudolph, owners of Charlie Hong Kong Restaurant, expected to serve 19 harvesters April 22 at Watsonville, Calif.-based Lakeside Organic.
The restaurant estimates it's bought around 70 tons of chard from the grower-shipper in the past five years, according to a news release. About two cups go into every noodle bowl it sells.
"We want them to taste the food we're producing as a result of their hard labor," Carolyn Rudolph said in the release.


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Chicken thighs with the Alabama white barbecue sauce from BBQ USA, to be more precise. This was our dinner on Super Bowl Sunday.
I started by seasoning a package of thighs with salt and pepper the night before.
The sauce is pretty simple and is somewhat similar to pit beef sauce. It was pretty thin when I first made it so I used instant potato flakes to thicken it, but I think they would've worked better if the sauce was warm.
I used apple wood for the smoke and when the thighs were done I dunked them in the sauce, which was probably the most fun part of the whole process.
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APOLLO BEACH — Authorities say at least one person is missing after a helicopter went down in Tampa Bay.
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Tired of all the commercialism in Christmas? Appalled by the crass consumerism that often seems to characterize the season? Looking for alternative ways of giving gifts that are uplifting and help others?
You're in luck -- many church-related organizations offer unique ways to show you care, and make a difference in the lives of others at Christmastime. Below find a few ideas; most of the groups have many other gift suggestions for you to buy in the name of others, or for yourself.
Want to help people in Winnipeg who are homeless? For just $3.11 you can buy a hearty Christmas dinner for those who depend on Siloam Mission. Go to www.siloam.ca.
If you're planning to do all your shopping online, but still want to support the Salvation Army, you can still put your donation in a kettle -- a virtual kettle, that is. You can also sponsor your own virtual kettle and invite your friends and family to also donate. Go to fillthekettle.com.
Through Mennonite Central Committee you can provide people in the developing world with clean drinking water. Just $10 will help provide equipment for wells in Mozambique and Tanzania, and $40 will help train people to maintain wells and cisterns in Cambodia and Bolivia. Go to http://mcccanada.ca.
For $2, you can provide a farmer in the developing world with a fruit tree sapling through Presbyterian World Service & Development. For $10 you can provide training for a farmer in soil and water conservation, and $57 helps a woman start a small vegetable garden. Go to presbyterian.ca/pwsd.
You can provide a child in Nicaragua with an education for a year for $100 through Canadian Lutheran World Relief. For $50, you can provide enough seedlings to plant trees in two hectares of deforested land in Zambia. Go to http://clwr.donorshops.com.
If you want to help women in the developing world, $40 will help provide six months of literacy classes for women in India and Rwanda through Canadian Baptist Ministries. For $75, you can buy a bike for a development worker or pastor so they can visit projects in remote places in Africa or Asia. Go to www.cbmin.org.
For $40, you can help provide education for orphans in China through the United Church of Canada. For $10 you can buy 10 chickens for young orphan girls in Mozambique so they can sell the eggs and use them for food. $10 also provides a school or personal kit for one girl. Go to www.giftswithvision.ca.
Worldwide, an estimated 870 million people don't have enough to eat. $11 buys an emergency food ration for one person for a month through Canadian Foodgrains Bank; $55 buys enough food for a family of five for the same time period. Go to www.foodgrainsbank.ca
Here's something different for Christmas; through ADRA Canada, the international development agency of the Seventh Day Adventist Church, you can buy a worm farm and chickens for $20 for a family greenhouse in Mongolia. A worm farm sounds icky, but it's really useful; the worms are fed from family food scraps, producing excellent fertilizer. Best of all, you get to give a gift card that says: "Sorry I only got you this card. You have no idea how hard it is to wrap a chicken and a worm farm." Go to www.adra.ca/
Through the Primate's World Relief and Development Fund of the Anglican Church you can provide job training for women in Burundi for $65 and support HIV/AIDS Orphans in South Africa for $40. Go to pwrdf.org.
World Vision offers an array of gift options for people in the developing world, including two mosquito nets for children for $30, an HIV and AIDS care kit for $60, and a chance to stock a medical clinic for $100. Go to www.worldvision.ca.
If you prefer to do your shopping in person, you can do that Dec. 2 at the fifth annual Just Christmas Fair Trade Global Market at John Black United Church, 898 Henderson Hwy.
The Market, sponsored by five United Churches in northeast Winnipeg, features fair trade crafts, jewelry, honey and other products or gifts that support people in Canada and the developing world. It runs from 2 to 5 PM and includes children's activities.
After all that shopping, maybe you'd like to read a good book and listen to a CD -- and support local authors and artists. One good book is God's Mind in that Music, by Jamie Howison. Howison, a jazz lover and priest at St. benedict's table here in Winnipeg, explores the theological insights expressed in the music of jazz legend John Coltrane. Go to godsmindinthatmusic.com/home.
Then, gift buying finished, and book and hot chocolate in hand, you can put on Keening for the Dawn, a new Christmas CD from Winnipeg singer-songwriter Steve Bell. It's described as a "deep and beautiful recovery of the season of advent, of the darkness and longing that come before, and give their depth, to joy." Available at keening.stevebell.com.
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Before the kids get bored from inactivity this summer, consider these free, local events geared toward youngsters in Queen Anne and Magnolia.
Queen Anne
The Queen Anne Library (400 W. Garfield St.) has events all summer long. Participate in an event and then take home an exciting new book to read in the sun.
•Mondays — From 6:45 to 7:15 p.m. there's Pajama Story Time at the Queen Anne Library. The event features stories, songs and crafts. Participants are invited to attend in their pajamas.
•Thursdays — From 11 to 11:30 a.m., there's a family story at the library. The event is for preschoolers and toddlers and features stories, songs and rhymes.
•Saturday, June 21 — Visit the library from 3 to 4 p.m. for Raptors! Staff from the Woodland Park Zoo will bring a live raptor to teach kids age 4 and older.
•Thursday, July 10 — At 11 a.m. there's a Firefighter Story Time, in honor of Fire Prevention Month; Fire Chief Gregory Dean will read a story.
•Monday, July 28 — From 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., for Boats Afloat, staff from the Pacific Science Center will help kids make boats from clay. Go to the event to find out if yours will float. Registration is required.
The Seattle Center is always a good spot for kids. From the children's theater, to the Pacific Science Center, the Space Needle and EMP, there's a lot to do. Check out these free events.
The Seattle Center Armory (305 Harrison St.) will host numerous free, cultural events this summer. Visit the Iranian Festival on June 28, the Polish Festival on July 12, the Hispanic Seafair Festival on July 27 and BrasilFest on Aug. 17.
For a patriotic celebration, watch 500 people become citizens at a ceremony at 11 a.m. on July 4.
There are also Movies at the Mural, on Saturdays, July 26 through Aug. 23. Please note: Some of the movies are rated PG-13.
Enjoy the Lake Union Wooden Boat Festival from July 4 to 6 at The Center for Wooden Boats (1010 Valley St). There are free boat rides (sign up on the dock), races and boat-building demos. And just for kids, there's toy boat-building, pirate pond boats and a treasure hunt.
Do the Cheshiahud Challenge at Lake Union Park (860 Terry Ave. N.) at 10 a.m. on July 4. Find local history clues around the Cheshiahud Loop and win prizes. Maps will be available at MOHAI.
Watch theater in David Rodgers Park (2800 First Ave W.) at 7 p.m. on July 26. The play, "Backyard Bard: All's Well That Ends Well," is all-ages.
Cool off at the East Queen Anne wading pool (160 Howe St.) on Sundays, Mondays and Tuesdays from noon to 7 p.m., from June 23 through Aug. 17. Or go to the water feature in South Lake Union (860 Terry Ave. N), open until Sept. 1, from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. every day.
Check out the Queen Anne Farmers Market (West Crockett Street and Queen Anne Avenue North) for live music and kids' events every Thursday from 3 to 7:30 p.m. Visit the website for more information on eacg week's events: qafma.net/about.
The Magnolia Library (2801 34th Ave. W.) has a lot of special events planned for this summer.
•Mondays — There is a Library Play Time from 3 to 5 p.m.
•Wednesdays — There's a Toddler Story Time from 11:15 to 11:45 a.m. In addition to a story, librarians will present rhymes and songs.
•Thursdays — Preschool Story Time is from 11:15 to 11:45 a.m., featuring those same kid-friendly activities from Toddler Story Time.
•July 3, July 17 and Aug. 14 — Become a mad scientist from 2 to 4 p.m. for the Crafty Science Lab. Experiments are for kids ages 6 to 12.
•Tuesday, July 15 — Bug out at the Insect Safari from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Don Ehlen, who has collected 3,000 insects, will show butterflies, beetles, bees and other insects.
•Wednesday, July 23 — Learn more about the sea with author and songwriter Eric Ode from 2 to 3 p.m. at the Tide Pool Tunes and Fishy Tales event.
•Thursday, July 31 — Use your math skills at Mathblast! Pacific Science Center staff will help kids age 7 and older make colorful chemical reactions using math.
•Thursday, Aug. 7 — Come listen to musician and illustrator Morgan Taylor as she tells you all about Gustafer Yellowgold, who came to Earth from the sun.
Join local experts to visit the tide pools and sea life at Discovery Park on June 28 and 29, from 11:15 a.m. to 12:45 p.m., and again on July 12, from 10 a.m. to noon. Or learn more about the forest surrounding the park on Aug. 3, from 1 to 3 p.m. Pre-register for all events via email@example.com
Watch Shakespeare in the Park at Discovery Park (3801 W. Government Way). The first performance is "Love's Labour's Lost," at 3 p.m. on Sunday, July 27, followed by "Othello" on Sunday, Aug. 3 at 3 p.m.
The Magnolia Farmers Market (West McGraw Street and 33rd Avenue West) has story time and musicians every Saturday, through Oct. 11. Mark your calendars to visit on July 5 for the Cherry Pit Spit contest and Aug 9 for the Zucchini Car Races.
Beat the heat at the Ballard Commons water feature (5701 22nd Ave. N.W.), open daily until Sept. 1, from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Don't go hungry this summer: Take part in the City of Seattle's summer meals program at Denny Park (100 Dexter Ave. N.), weekdays from June 25 to Aug. 22, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. No proof of income is necessary.
Have a kid-friendly event you want to share with the community? Visit our online calendar: queenannenews.com/Content/Calendar/Calendar/7/7
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We're continuing our season long Fall Fest 2011, which welcomes food and garden bloggers to feature garden-to-table recipes and tips. We'll help you to enjoy all that this season has to offer. First up was the classic fall favorite, apples, then a Thanksgiving staple, potatoes, fun with pumpkin and now we're featuring cauliflower.
Forget the cauliflower mush from your past. It's time to give this versatile veggie another try. It's great in everything from soups to pastas and more. Since it's a hearty and starchy vegetable, it's a good way to fill out any dish. It's also great solo, when you cook it the right way: roasted, with a little olive oil, salt and pepper.
Blended into soup: Try Nadia G's Creamy Cauliflower Soup with Aged Cheddar Pancetta, and Sauteed Leeks. Simmer cauliflower until tender and then cream into soup with a handheld blender. Melt in aged cheddar cheese and top with crispy pancetta.
Roasted: Ellie's Roasted Cauliflower and Broccoli really lets the produce speak for itself. Just add garlic, olive oil and salt to the cauliflower and broccoli florets and then bake until browned.
Baked with pasta: Rach's Cauliflower Mac N Cheese combines penne, macaroni or ziti with Cheddar, Gruyere and Parmesan for a gooey and delicious dinner.
Steamed: Pick up assorted colored of baby cauliflower to make Emeril's Steamed Baby Cauliflower. It takes less than 10 minutes to steam the florets with water, celery, lemon and garlic until they are tender.
More Cauliflower from Family & Friends:
The Sensitive Epicure: Cauliflower Souffle
Haute Apple Pie: Cauliflower and Chicken Gratin
CIA Dropout: Cauliflower Squash Soup With Creme Fraiche
Daily*Dishin: Tender Roasted Cauliflower
Virtually Homemade: Cumin Crusted Beef Tenderloin With Cauliflower Puree
What's Gaby Cooking: Cumin Roasted Cauliflower
Thursday Night Dinner: Roasted Garlic and Parmesan Mashed Cauliflower
Napa Farmhouse 1885: Painted Cauliflower
FN Dish: Roasted Cauliflower 5 Ways
Big Girls Small Kitchen: Cauliflower Soup With Sharp Cheddar and Thyme
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Did you know?
Cape Town is home to South Africa's only public art festival, Infecting the City.
Whether you book a Cape Town art tour with a company, use public transport or drive yourself, there are plenty of options for an art-inspired tour of the city.
The South African National Gallery at the heart of the Company's Gardens is a fitting place to begin exploring Cape Town's art galleries. It has over 1 000 works in its collection and hosts a dynamic programme of high-quality exhibitions.
Just a short walk away, the Old Town House is home to the Michaelis Art Collection, with its renowned selection of Dutch art from the 17th century. Also in the city centre, the Castle of Good Hope is home to the William Fehr Art Collection, an important visual representation of a particular time in the city's history. Historic Groote Schuur houses the Cecil John Rhodes Art Collection.
Moving out to the suburbs of Woodstock and Salt River, expect to find the city's trendiest design and art collectives in what is Cape Town's newest art precinct. Initiatives like the WhatiftheWorld Gallery, the Stevenson Gallery and the Goodman Gallery are great examples of Cape Town's innovative art scene.
Also visit the V&A Waterfront, where galleries like Everard Reid represent a number of top local artists. The Montebello Design Centre in Newlands is home to David Krut Projects and the Irma Stern Museum in Rosebank is another art gallery that is rewarding to visit.
Other places of interest include several private collections, which are not generally open to the public. In Kloof Road, Ellerman House has works by Maggie Loubser, Irma Stern and William Kentridge. In the suburb of St James you can visit another impressive collection of South African art at Rodwell House. Nearby Kalk Bay is home to dozens of small art galleries, shops and studios.
Round off your art tour with a visit to art hot spots in Khayelitsha, where Cape Town's vibrant township art scene adds yet another dimension to the city's artistic landscape.
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Look out for Cape Town's public art, in particular a series of new installations at the city's various Integrated Rapid Transit System stops and new installations along the Sea Point Promenade.
Tours to do
Contact Cape Town Tourism to find out more about specialised art tours of the city.
Get around
A number of important stops on Cape Town's art scene lie in the city bowl. In the city this means that you can use the City Sightseeing Cape Town bus on both the Blue and Red routes, with most of the venues within easy walking distance. You can also arrange an organised tour or drive yourself around Cape Town's art hotspots.
What's happening
Each year, Cape Town hosts Infecting the City, a programme of public art that turns the city into one big creative space.


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Adobe hosted its largest Digital Summit in Salt Lake City, Utah, last week, attracting more than 4,000 attendees and distinguished leaders in the media, social media and marketing communities. Arianna Huffington, editor-in-chief of Huffington Post, Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter and Kevin Lynch, CTO of Adobe, are some of our keynote speakers at the Summit. You can access the keynotes on demand below.
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First of all, thanks to Edna Mroz of Beausejour and Kathleen Mihaychuk for their Imperial cookie recipes. I missed putting them in last week. This week, thanks to everyone who responded to my shout-out for cornbread recipes, including Jim Rodger of Argyle, Kathleen Land, Elma Hiebert and Darlene Smith. Any kind of cornbread is my favourite quick bread. Easy, reliable and versatile, it can be served with breakfast, lunch or supper.
Jim Rodger wrote in to say his father, who grew up in Alberta, always called it Johnny Cake. (My dad grew up in northwestern Ontario, and he called it that, too.) Jim also had a brilliant tip for using my vintage cast-iron pan, which bakes cornbread into small sticks that look like corn cobs. He suggests greasing the pan well with shortening and then preheating the pan until it's "smoking hot." This gives a nice crust.
Both of the following recipes can be baked in corn stick pans or in skillets in the oven. The first has a touch of sweetness and would be great at breakfast with jam or with the lemon-honey spread. The other recipe, with green onions and cheese, would be a great side for chili or stew.
This week, Aline Ludlow has written in with a request for a recipe with the great name of "More Than Potato Soup." And Joanne Hill of Keewatin, Ont., has a request that I'm sure will touch a lot of other readers. Joanne is interested in recipes for "treats" -- desserts and baking -- for people living with diabetes. As Joanne points out, just swapping in sweetener for sugar doesn't always work. Often the other ingredients need to be slightly adjusted, so it's best to go with recipes specifically developed for reduced sugar. Does anybody have some really good diabetes-friendly recipes?
If you can help with a recipe request, have your own request, or a favourite recipe you'd like to share, send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com, fax it to 697-7412, or write to Recipe Swap, c/o Alison Gillmor, Winnipeg Free Press, 1355 Mountain Ave. Winnipeg, MB, R2X 3B6. Please include your first and last name, address and telephone number.
Hearty Skillet Cornbread
2 eggs, beaten
80 ml (1/3 cup) sour cream (commercial)
30 ml (2 tbsp) vegetable oil
500 ml (about 8 oz or 2 cups) shredded Cheddar cheese, divided
1 x 284 ml (10 oz) can cream-style corn
250 ml (1 cup) yellow cornmeal
30 ml (2 tbsp) granulated sugar
10 ml (2 tsp) baking powder
5 ml (1 tsp) grated lemon peel
5 ml (1 tsp) salt
125 ml (1/2 cup) butter, softened
30 ml (2 tbsp) honey
5 ml (1 tsp) fresh grated lemon peel
15 ml (1 tbsp) fresh squeezed lemon juice
Preheat oven to 205 C (400 F). Thoroughly grease an oven-proof 20-22 cm (8-9 inch) skillet or baking pan. In medium bowl, combine eggs, sour cream and oil. Stir in 375 ml (1 1/2 cups) cheese, cream-style corn, cornmeal, sugar, baking powder, lemon peel and salt. Blend well. Spoon into prepared pan and bake for about 25 minutes. Sprinkle with remaining cheese and bake 5 minutes more or until cheese melts. Cool 5 minutes. Cut into serving pieces and serve with honey-lemon butter.
To make honey-lemon butter: In small bowl, combine ingredients, blending well.
Tester's notes: This recipe from Elma Hiebert is very moist, with great taste. This is a real Southern-style version that uses cornmeal but not flour. As a bonus, this recipe is gluten-free (though you should check the canned creamed corn -- some brands are gluten-free and some are not). You can certainly bake this cornbread in a standard pan. If you decide to bake the bread in a skillet, make sure it's ovenproof, including the handles. Teflon-coated pans are not recommended for the oven, though some non-stick ceramic pans are fine. Counter-intuitively, I found the non-stick pans were stickier than old-fashioned cast iron. Elma makes the honey-lemon butter in a mini-blender.
Gloria's Skillet Cornbread
Vegetable oil spray or soft butter for greasing
250 ml (1 cup) yellow cornmeal
250 ml (1 cup) all-purpose flour
60 ml (1/4 cup) granulated sugar
15 ml (1 tbsp) baking powder
2 ml (1/2 tsp) salt
250 ml (1 cup) grated old Cheddar cheese
3 green onions, thinly sliced (optional)
1 large egg
310 ml (1 1/4 cup) buttermilk
60 ml (1/4 cup) melted butter
Preheat oven to 175 C (350 F). Thoroughly grease a 25 cm (10 inch) cast-iron or oven-proof non-stick skillet with spray or butter. In a medium bowl, place the cornmeal, flour, sugar, baking powder and salt and whisk until combined. Stir in the cheese and green onion.
In a separate bowl, beat the egg until the yolk and white are well blended. Mix in the buttermilk and melted butter. Mix the wet ingredients into the dry until just combined.
Spoon the batter into the prepared skillet. Bake for 30 minutes or until the cornbread springs back when touched gently in the centre. Cool the cornbread on baking rack for 20 minutes. Run a knife around the pan, invert and cut into wedges. So good!
Tester's notes: Another great cornbread recipe, this one from Darlene Smith. I liked the green onions so much I'd probably double or even triple the quantity next time.