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NVIDIA Tegra K1 Preview & Architecture Analysisby Brian Klug & Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/6/2014 6:31 AM EST
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blanarahul - Monday, January 06, 2014 - linkQuick question: Is it possible to build a 32-bit ARMv8 CPU core i.e. a ARMv8 core capable of running a 32-bit OS without using a hypervisor? That would really ease the transition to 64-bit for Android. Reply
blanarahul - Monday, January 06, 2014 - linkAnand, where do you find information about the revisions of Cortex cores?? Reply
blanarahul - Monday, January 06, 2014 - linkFound it: http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/co... Reply
klmx - Monday, January 06, 2014 - linkThe real-time version of ARMv8 (ARMv8-R) is still 32-bit, and is capable of running a rich OS like Android, but I guess that's not the solution you had in mind Reply
droopaloop - Monday, January 06, 2014 - linkARMv8 supports 2 different instruction sets; AArch32, and AArch64. AArch32 is basically the ARMv7 instruction set (read: 32bit). It is possible to run Android in AArch32. It is also possible to run the kernel in AArch64, and have AArch32 apps running on top which should help ease the transition to 64bit. Reply
Krysto - Monday, January 06, 2014 - linkHow would using a 32-bit-only CPU ease the transition to 64-bit? ARMv8 supports both 32-bit and 64-bit modes by default (you can make it 64-bit-only later, though), so that's what needed for the "transition to be easier" - OEMs to just jump to ARMv8, even if the OS remains 32-bit. Reply
phoenix_rizzen - Monday, January 06, 2014 - linkThis is exactly what Apple did with their A7 SoC. It's an ARMv8 CPU. It can run either a 64-bit or 32-bit version of iOS. If running the 64-bit version, it can run either 32-bit or 64-bit apps. Reply
Krysto - Monday, January 06, 2014 - linkThat's what everyone will do. That's what I'm saying. It's the default. OEMs just need to switch to ARMv8, and that's it. It's up to Google to make Android 64-bit, and then to app devs to make their apps 64-bit, but neither is "necessary" for the transition to 64-bit CPUs. Reply
BMNify - Tuesday, January 07, 2014 - linkremember The Cortex-A15 and above also introduced full hardware accelerated virtualization so you could also run several versions of an OS concurrently too if you so wished and skillful enough to code your apps base libraries with good generic and fast inter process communications (xcore style) Reply
deltatux - Thursday, January 09, 2014 - linkWhy would you need to build a 32-bit ARMv8 core? Android is highly portable, just recompile the entire thing to the aarch64 instruction set and you're good to go. Nearly all apps are written in Dalvik anyways which means you won't have to recompile those apps and ARMv8 in itself is backwards compatible with 32-bit just like how x86-64 is backwards compatible with the original 32-bit x86. So even if there are 32-bit native apps, they can easily run on 64-bit Android.
NVIDIA has shown off Android 4.4 running on Denver in 64-bit mode, so 64-bit Android does exist and works out of the gate. Reply
davidjin - Thursday, January 23, 2014 - linkNot true. v8 introduces new MMU design and page table format and other enhanced features, which are not readily compatible to a straightforward "re-compiled" kernel.
By App-wise, you are right. Re-compilation will almost do the trick. However, without a nice kernel, how do you run the Apps? Reply
deltatux - Saturday, January 25, 2014 - linkThis is no different than the AMD64 implementation, the Linux kernel will gain a few improvements to make it work perfectly on that specific architecture extension, the same is likely going to happen to aarch64. That means, there's no reason to make a 32-bit version of ARMv8. ARMv8 will be able to encompass and execute both 64-bit and 32-bit software.
As shown by NVIDIA's own tech demo, Android is already 64-bit capable, thus, no need to continually run in 32-bit mode. Reply
Laxaa - Monday, January 06, 2014 - linkKepler K1 with Denver in Surface 3? Reply
nafhan - Monday, January 06, 2014 - linkI'd be more interested in a Kepler Steam Box. Reply
B3an - Monday, January 06, 2014 - link... You can already get Kepler Steam boxes. They use desktop Kepler GPU's.
Surface 3 with K1 would be much more interesting, and unlike Steam OS, actually useful and worthwhile. Reply
Alexvrb - Monday, January 06, 2014 - linkAgreed. The Surface 2 is a well done piece of hardware. It just needs some real muscle now. As the article says, it would be a good opportunity to showcase X360-level games like GTA V. Reply
name99 - Monday, January 06, 2014 - linkRight. That's the reason Surface 2 isn't selling, it doesn't have "real muscle". Hell, put a POWER8 CPU in there with 144GB and some 10GbE connectors and you'll have a product that takes over the world... Reply
stingerman - Tuesday, January 07, 2014 - linkI doubt Microsoft will sell a device that competes against the 360... It would signal to investors what they already suspect: Gaming Consoles are end of line. Problem is that Apple is now in a better position... Reply
klmx - Monday, January 06, 2014 - linkI love how Nvidia's marketing department is selling the dual Denver cores as "supercores" Reply
MonkeyPaw - Monday, January 06, 2014 - linkThey are at least extra big compared to an A15, so it's at least accurate by a size comparison. ;) Reply
Nenad - Monday, January 13, 2014 - linkThat is not real picture of GPUs/CPUs, it is photoshoped, so we do not know relative size of A15 and Denver cores. Reply
chizow - Monday, January 06, 2014 - linkOf course they would, designating it as simply dual-core would intimate it's a downgrade when it clearly is not. Reply
MrdnknnN - Monday, January 06, 2014 - link"As if that wasn't enough, starting now, all future NVIDIA GeForce designs will begin first and foremost as mobile designs."
I guess I am a dinosaur because this makes me want to cry. Reply
nathanddrews - Monday, January 06, 2014 - linkWhy? It was the best thing that ever happened to Intel (Core). Desktop graphics are in a rut. Too expensive, not powerful enough for the coming storm of high frame rate 4K and 8K software and hardware. Reply
HammerStrike - Monday, January 06, 2014 - linkFrom a gaming perspective Intel's focus on mobile has let to 10%-15% performance increases in their desktop line whenever they release a new chip series. That's pretty disappointing, from a gaming performance perspective, even though I understand why they are focusing there.
Also, I disagree with you on desktop graphics - this is a golden time for them. The competition in the $200-$300 card range is fierce, and there is ton of great value there. Not sure why you think there is a "storm" of 4k and 8k content coming any time soon, as there isn't, but even 2x R9 290, $800 at MSRP (I know the mining craze has distorted that, but it will correct) can drive 4K today. Seeing as most decent 4K monitors are still $3000+, I'd argue it is the cost of the displays, and not the GPU's, that is holding back wider adaptation.
As long as nVidia keeps releasing competitive parts I really don't care what their design methodology is. That being said, power efficiency is the #1 priority in mobile, so if they are going to be devoting mindshare to that my concern is top line performance will suffer in desktop apps, where power is much less of an issue. Reply
OreoCookie - Monday, January 06, 2014 - linkSince Intel includes relatively powerful GPUs in their CPUs, discrete GPUs are needed only for special purposes (gaming, GPU compute and various special applications). And the desktop market has been contracting for years in favor of mobile computers and devices. In the notebook space, thanks to Intel finally including decent GPUs in their CPUs, only high-end notebooks come with discrete GPUs. Hence, the market for discrete GPUs is shrinking (which is one of the reasons why nVidia and AMD are both in the CPU game as well as the GPU game). Reply
MrSpadge - Monday, January 06, 2014 - link> From a gaming perspective Intel's focus on mobile has let to 10%-15% performance increases in their desktop line whenever they release a new chip series. That's pretty disappointing
That's not because of their power efficiency oriented design, it's because their CPU designs are already pretty good (difficult to improve upon) and there's no market pressure to push harder. And as socket 2011 shows us: pushing 6 of these fat cores flat out still requires 130+ W, making these PCs the dinosaurs of old again (-> not mass compatible). Reply
Sabresiberian - Monday, January 06, 2014 - linkI think you are misunderstanding the situation here. What will go in a mobile chip will be the equivalent of one SMX core, while what will go in the desktop version will be as many as they can cool properly. With K1 and Kepler we have the same architecture, but there is one SMX in the coming mobile solution, and 15 SMXs in a GeForce 780Ti. So, 15x the performance in the 780Ti (roughly) using the same design.
Maxwell could end up being made up of something like 20 SMXs designed with mobile efficiency in mind; that's a good thing for those of us playing at the high end of video quality. :) Reply
MrSpadge - Monday, January 06, 2014 - linkThis just means they'll be optimized for power efficiency first. Which makes a lot of sense - look at Haitii, it can not even reach "normal" clock speeds with the stock cooler because it eats so much power. Improving power efficiency automatically results in higher performance becoming achievable via bigger dies. What they decide to offer us is a different story altogether. Reply
kpb321 - Monday, January 06, 2014 - linkMy initial reaction was a little like MrdnknnN but when I thought about it I realized that may not be a bad thing. Video cards at this point are primarily constrained on the high end by power and cooling limitations more than anything else. The R9 is a great example of this. Optimizing for mobile should result in a more efficient design which can scale up to good desktop and high end performance by adding on the appropriate memory interfaces and putting down enough "blocks" SMXs in nvidia's case. They already do this to give the range of barely better than integrated video cards to top end 500+ dollar cards. I don't think the mobile focus is too far below the low end cards of today to cause major problems here. Reply
HighTech4US - Monday, January 06, 2014 - linkYou quoting CharLIE and using his Nvidia hate filled speculative drivel as somehow being gospel taints your article. Reply
MrSpadge - Monday, January 06, 2014 - linkHe is right, occasionally - you've got to give him that. The problem is you never know before it happens, which makes reading the Inq pretty pointless. Reply
HighTech4US - Wednesday, January 08, 2014 - linkA broken clock is right twice a day and wrong the rest of the time which is pretty much charLIE's track record on Nvidia. Reply
OreoCookie - Monday, January 06, 2014 - linkIf you're familiar the style of The Register and The Inquirer (at least in the past when I was reading them regularly), they often packaged excellent tech reporting in their quirky and snarky way of writing things. (I read both back in the day to learn more about the inner workings of cpu designs and such.) (Charlie Demerjian hails from The Inquirer.) And Anand did not treat Demerjian as gospel, he said that it looks as if he may have been spot on. Reply
Xavierx78 - Monday, January 06, 2014 - linkWould really like to see the K1 in the next version of OUYA! Reply
silenceisgolden - Monday, January 06, 2014 - linkI'm noticing a lack of talk about LTE/radio support still Reply
fafa1971 - Monday, January 06, 2014 - linkThey can bundle a discrete modem, NVIDIA i500 (LTE cat. 4, 150 Mbps):
http://www.nvidia.com/object/i500-cellular-modems-... Reply
Rayb - Monday, January 06, 2014 - linkApparently Nvidia decided to avoid the US market for lack of CDMA. It has been certified for AT&T and will be marketed globally, just not in the US because Verizon/Sprint don't use the GSM baseband.
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/nvidia-not-tar... Reply
Krysto - Monday, January 06, 2014 - linkDecent showing from Nvidia with K1, but the real game-changer will be K2, or whatever the hell they'll call it then, with Denver and Maxwell by default, and made at 16nm FinFET. Hopefully it will arrive no later than early spring next year.
Normally that chip should get 700 Gflops, but if they can push another 3x, to 1 TF, that would really give them a lot of buzzwords in the media: "Denver", "Maxwell", "16nm FinFET", "1 Teraflops", etc
I hope they don't blow it. Qualcomm is already getting lazy because they have too much domination in the market. We need another strong competitor. Reply
ddriver - Monday, January 06, 2014 - linkGot to love Shang Tsungs' marketing, K1 - the 192 core chip, now coming with either 2 or 4 cores. Reply
da_asmodai - Monday, January 06, 2014 - linkThis articles says first, first, first for Kepler core in mobile but it's not out yet and I believe everything that's claimed as a first in this article is also supported by the Adreno 420 in the already announced Snapdragon 805. I'd like to see a side by side spec comparison of Kepler, Adreno 420, and PowerVR Series 6XT. Reply
dwforbes - Monday, January 06, 2014 - link"FP64 support is also present, at 1/24 the FP32 rate"
Should this 1/2 the FP32 rate, or is it really so crippled? Reply
Ryan Smith - Monday, January 06, 2014 - linkNo, 1/24 is correct. It's so that you have native FP64 when you need it, but you aren't wasting die space on precision you aren't going to use. Reply
ddriver - Monday, January 06, 2014 - linknvidia being cheap once again, deliberately ruining compute performance like they did with desktop GPUs for years. And let me guess, no openCL support either? Thanks but no thanks, gonna stick to qualcomm and samsung mobile platforms and amd/radeon on the desktop. And for what? To push their ridiculously and shamelessly overpriced "professional" products?
R9 280 DP @ 1/4 SP Reply
Loki726 - Monday, January 06, 2014 - linkAdding big double precision units has real area and power costs (you typically can't rail gate off individual functional units). If you put full-rate double precision units in a mobile SoC it would just sit there draining your battery life. Reply
ddriver - Monday, January 06, 2014 - linkUnfortunately, power efficiency is just the excuse to deliberately cripple compute performance of consumer products. As you see, AMD has no problem providing DP support with lower penalty, which is the reason my compute farm runs radeons exclusively, because the performance per $ ratio completely destroys prosumer products. I do realize I am a very specific and narrow case, since I couldn't care less about gaming and graphics performance, since I use it only to rasterize the compute output, but still... why not go for a more performing design, considering it is not that much about efficiency but the greed for the fat profit margins of teslas and quadros that motivates nvidia to cripple DP performance to such a horrendous extent. Reply
Loki726 - Monday, January 06, 2014 - linkAMD doesn't release a mobile GPU part, and the Qualcomm parts which are based off of the old AMD VLIW5 design that they bought from AMD don't include double precision. Every little bit of power matters in mobile. Reply
ddriver - Monday, January 06, 2014 - linkThe 1/24 DP performance does not come as a mobile-dedicated design, even the GTX 780 is crippled this way, even though it is an enthusiast part, where power efficiency is the least concern. Reply
Loki726 - Monday, January 06, 2014 - linkThey are different strategies. Neither one is ideal for everyone.
Putting double precision hardware into consumer parts is effectively asking
gamers to pay for extra area and power. I do agree that this is less of an
issue in desktop parts compared to mobile, but it is still an issue and GPUs
have enough ALUs in them that you would notice it if every one of them got 10%
less efficient in benchmarks.
AMD builds one chip and sells it into both compute and graphics markets. In
order to make it appealing for compute applications they add double precision.
They make gamers pay for this even though they never use it, but they don't have
to pay the design costs of building multiple chips. NVIDIA builds two
different designs. One chip for compute and another one for graphics (although
this round they also sold the compute chip into the graphics market - Titan).
Presumably they do this because they think that they can recoup the extra cost
of building a different chip that only compute users buy, and by doing so
they don't make gamers pay extra for double precision.
The compute chip has extra features like more registers, ECC, more double
precision units, dynamic parallelism, etc. Chip design is expensive. Think
hundreds of millions of dollars for a new design. If there were just as many
users of compute GPUs as there are gamers who buy graphics cards, the prices
would probably come down a lot.
I'm with you that I would like to have cheaper compute parts with full double
precision support, but I think the only real way to drive down chip prices is to
make them a commodity. It won't happen until there is a killer compute app
that makes every desktop owner want to go out and buy a compute GPU. Reply
ddriver - Tuesday, January 07, 2014 - linkAnd how do consumers exactly "pay extra" for the better DP performance when AMD GPUs are overall much better value than nvidia gpus? It seems to me that if the extra cost is as high as you believe it is (which it really isn't) then it is AMD that pays it with its profit margins. Reply
jerrylzy - Tuesday, January 07, 2014 - linkExactly. I don't see Loki726's point of gamers paying extra $ for Double Precision. AMD Cards are generally much cheaper at the same performance level, though at the cost of power consumption. Reply
Loki726 - Tuesday, January 07, 2014 - linkI mean compared to a world where AMD decided to rip out the double precision units. There are obviously many (thousands) other factors that do into the efficiency of a GPU. Reply
jerrylzy - Tuesday, January 07, 2014 - linkUnfortunately, instead of using VLIW 5, Qualcomm implemented new scalar architecture way back in adreno 320. Reply
Loki726 - Tuesday, January 07, 2014 - linkYep, the have improved on it, but they started with the AMD design. My point was that the Qualcomm GPU is a better comparison point to a Tegra SoC than an AMD desktop part. Reply
ddriver - Wednesday, January 08, 2014 - linkThe decision to chose Qualcomm in favor of Tegra would be based entirely on the absence of OpenCL support in Tegra. Exclusive cuda? Come on, who would want to invest into writing a parallel accelerated high performance routine that only works on like no more than 5% of the hardware-capable to run it devices? Not me anyway.
The mention of the radeon was regarding a completely different point - that nvidia sacks DP performance even where it makes no sense to, and is IMO criminal to do so - the "gain" of such a terrible DP implementation is completely diminished by the loss of potential performance and possibility of accelerating a lot of professional workstation software. And for what, so the only spared parts - the "professional" products can have their ridiculous prices better "justified"? Because it is such a sweet deal to make a product 10% more expensive to make and ask 5000% more money for it.
Which is the reason AMD offers so much more value, while limp and non-competitive in the CPU performance, the place where computation is really needed - professional workstation software can greatly benefit from parallelization, and the much cheaper desktop enthusiast product actually delivers more raw computational power than the identical, but more conservatively clocked fireGL analog. Surely, fireGL still has its perks - ECC, double the memory, but those advantages shine in very rare circumstances, in most of the professional computation demanding software the desktop part is still an incredibly lucrative investment, something you just don't get with nvidia because of what they decided to do the last few years, coincidentally the move to cripple DP performance to 1/24 coincided with the re-pimping of the quadros into the tesla line. I think it is rather obvious that nvidia decided to shamelessly milk the parallel supercomputing professional market, something that will backfire in their face, especially stacking with the downplay-ment of OpenCL in favor of a vendor exclusive API to use the hardware. Reply
Loki726 - Wednesday, January 08, 2014 - linkAgreed with the point about code portability, but that's an entirely different issue. I'd actually take the point further and say that OpenCL is too vendor specific -> it only runs on a few GPUs and has shaky support on mobile. Parallel code should be a library like pthreads, C++ (or pick your favorite language) standard library threads, or MPI. Why program in a new language that is effectively C/C++, except that it isn't?
I personally think that if a company artificially inflates the price of specific features like double precision, then they leave themselves open to being undercut by a competitor and they will either be forced to change it or go out of business. As I said, AMD's design choice penalizes gamers, but helps users who want compute features, and NVIDIA's choice benefits gamers, but penalizes desktop users who want the best value for some compute features like double precision.
I have a good understanding of circuit design and VLSI implementation of floating point units and I can say that the area and power overheads of adding in 768 extra double precision units to a Kepler GPU or 896 double precision units to a GCN GPU would be noticeable, even if you merged pairs of single precision units together and shared common logic (which would create scheduling hazards at the uArch level that could further eat into perf, and increase timing pressure during layout).
Take a look at this paper from Mark Horowitz (an expert) that explores power and area tradeoffs in floating point unit design if you don't believe me. It should be easy to verify. http://www.cpe.virginia.edu/grads/pdfs/August2012/... . Look at the area and power comparisons in Table 1, scale them to 28nm, and multiply them by ~1000x (to get up to 1/2 or 1/4 of single precision throughput).
Double precision units are big, and adding a lot of them adds a lot of power and area. Reply
Krysto - Saturday, January 11, 2014 - linkI want to believe OpenCL was left out because they've been trying to squeeze so much in this time-frame already. But since they fully ported everything in one swoop, I still find it hard to believe they didn't omit it on purpose. Hopefully, they'll support OpenCL 2.0 in Maxwell, because OpenCL 2.0 also offers some great parallelism features, which Maxwell could take advantage of. Reply
Andromeduck - Wednesday, January 08, 2014 - linkIsn't that what the GTX Titan is for? Reply
Jon Tseng - Monday, January 06, 2014 - linkSounds very interesting. The Q for me though as you allude to at the end is whether they can recruit devs to utilise this. Especially when mobile games are a freemium dominated world the temptation is to code for lowest common denominator/max audience, probably with a Samsung label on it (I'm not complaining - its whats enabled me to run World of Tanks happily on my Bay Trail T100!).
World beating GPU tech no use unless people are utilising it. Interesting thought about getting MSFT on board though - I guess the downer is that Windows Phone is a minority sport still, and tablet wise it would have to be Windows RT... :-x Reply
nicolapeluchetti - Monday, January 06, 2014 - linkThe processing power might be the same as the X-Box 360-PS 3 but using Direct X doesn't incur in a performance Hit? Reply
eddman - Monday, January 06, 2014 - linkI'm wondering the same thing.
Xbox and PS are gaming machines, running specialized OSes, and programmers can utilize low-level APIs and extract as much performance as possible.
Tegra K1 might be powerful, but it'll still be running general purpose OSes like android and windows RT.
Is there any way to know the performance gain by going low-level vs. high-level APIs for a video game? How much it really is? 5%? 15%? 40%?!! Reply
Krysto - Monday, January 06, 2014 - linkXbox360 and PS3 support DirectX9 and OpenGL ES 2.0+extensions. Many developers can and have made games with those APIs. Not all games on the consoles are "bare metal". So the "overall" difference in gaming, is probably not going to be very different.
The real "problem" is that, those games will need to come to devices that have 1080p or even 2.5k resolutions, which will cut the graphics performance of the games by 2-4x, compared to Xbox/PS3. This is why I hate the OEMs for being so dumb and pushing resolutions even further on mobile.
It's a waste of component money (could be used for different stuff instead), of battery life, and also of GPU resources. Reply
nicolapeluchetti - Monday, January 06, 2014 - linkI guess really good games use low levels API, i mean GTA V looks amazing and the specs of the X-Box 360 are what they are.
I agree with you that resolution will be a problem, but actually i really like the added resolution in everyday use. i recently switched from a note 2 to a nexus 5 and the extra resolution is fantastic.
They will probably have to upscale things, render at 720p and render at 1080p Reply
Krysto - Tuesday, January 07, 2014 - linkAMD said Mantle is pretty much bare-metal console API. And they said at their conference at CES that Battlefield 4 with that is 50 percent faster. So the difference is not huge, but significant.
By far the biggest impact will be made by the resolution of the device. While games on Xbox 360 run at 720p, most devices with Tegra K1 will probably have at least a 1080p resolution, which is twice as many pixels, so it cuts the performance in half (or the graphics quality). Reply
TheJian - Sunday, January 12, 2014 - linkLink please, and at what point in the vid do they say it (because some of those vids are 1hr+ for conferences)? I have seen only ONE claim and by a single dev who said you might get 20% if lucky. It is telling that we have NO benchmarks yet.
But I'm more than happy to read about someone using Mantle actually saying they expect 45-50% IN GAME over a whole benchmark (not some specific operation that might only be used once). But I don't expect it to go ever 20%.
Which makes sense given AMD shot so low with their comment of "we wouldn't do it for 5%". If it was easy to get even 40% wouldn't you say "we wouldn't do it for 25%"? Reality is they have to spend to get a dev to do this at all, because they gain NOTHING financially for using Mantle unless AMD is paying them.
I'll be shocked to see BF4 over 25% faster than with it off (I only say 25% for THIS case because this is their best case I'm assuming, due to AMD funding it big time as a launch vehicle). Really I might be shocked at 20% but you gave me such a wide margin to be right saying 50%. They may not even get 20%.
Why would ANY dev do FREE work to help AMD, and when done be able to charge ZERO over the cost of the game for everyone else that doesn't have mantle? It would be easier to justify it's use if devs could charge Mantle users say $15 extra per game. But that just won't work here. So you're stuck with amd saying "please dev, I know its more work and you won't ever make a dime from it, but it would be REALLY nice for us if you did this work free"...Or "Hi, my name is AMD, here's $8 Million dollars, please use Mantle". Only the 2nd option works at all, and even then you get Mantle being back burner the second the game needs to be fixed for the rest of us (BF4 for instance, all stuff on back burner until BF4 is fixed for regular users). This story is no different than Phsyx etc. Reply
nicolapeluchetti - Tuesday, January 07, 2014 - linkMantle is said to have 45% performance bonus compared to DirectX on Battlfield. Those are the rumours. Reply
OreoCookie - Monday, January 06, 2014 - linkIt's great to see that finally the SoC makers are being serious about GPU compute, now it's up to software developers to take advantage of all that compute horsepower. Given Apple's focus on GPU performance in the past, I'm curious to see what their A8 looks like and how it stacks up against Tegra K1 (in particular the Denver version). Reply
timchen - Monday, January 06, 2014 - linkThe Denver speculation really needs some justification.
Doesn't common sense say that the same task is always more power efficient done with hardware rather than software? It would at least need a paragraph or two to explain how OoO or speculative execution or ILC can be more power efficient in software.
Now if it is just that you need to build different binaries specifically for these cores, it then sounds a lot more like a compute GPU actually-- but as far as I understand so far general tasks are not suitable to run on those configurations, and parallelization for general problems is pretty much a dead horse (similar to P=NP?) now. Reply
KAlmquist - Monday, January 06, 2014 - linkThat speculation didn't make a lot of sense to me, either.
One of the reasons that out of order execution improves performance is that cache misses are expensive. In an out of order processor, when a cache miss occurs the processor can defer the instructions that need that particular piece of data, and execute other instructions while waiting for the read to complete. To create "nice bundles of instructions that are already optimized for peak parallelism," you have to know how long each memory read is going to take.
The writers mention the Transmeta Efficeon processor, which translated x86 instructions to native instructions and then executed them on an in-order processor. That was a fairly effective approach, but doesn't demonstrate that an in-order processor can compete with a modern out of order processor. After all, ARM started out producing in-order processors, which were very energy efficient, but eventually they had to produce an out of order design in order to increase performance without increasing the clock rate. Reply
Loki726 - Monday, January 06, 2014 - linkTransmeta didn't have an in-order design in the same way that a normal CPU is in order. See their CGO paper: http://people.ac.upc.edu/vmoya/docs/transmeta-cgo....
Here's the relevant text:
"Compilers typically deal with recovery from speculation by generating compensation code, which re-
executes incorrectly sequenced operations, performs operations omitted from the speculative code path, and
corrects mismatches in register assignments (Freudenberger et al. [13]). With this approach, hardware
support is required to defer faults of potentially faulting instructions moved above branches (e.g.,
boosting,Smith et al. [23]), to detect overlapping memory operations scheduled out of sequence, and to branch to the
compensation code (e.g., memory conflict buffers, Gallagher et al. [14], or the Intel IA-64 ALAT[18]).
In contrast, Crusoe native VLIW processors provide an elegant hardware solution that supports arbitrary kinds of
speculation and subsequent recovery and works hand-in-hand with the Code Morphing Software [8]. All registers
holding x86 state are shadowed; that is, there exist two copies of each register, a working copy and a shadow
copy. Normal atoms only update the working copy of the register. If execution reaches the end of a translation, a
special commit operation copies all working registers into their corresponding shadow registers, committing the
work done in the translation. On the other hand, if any exceptional condition, such as the failure of one of CMS's
translation assumptions, occurs inside the translation, the runtime system undoes the effects of all molecules
executed since the last commit via a rollback operation that copies the shadow register values (committed at the
end of the previous translation) back into the working registers.
Following a rollback, CMS usually interprets the x86 instructions corresponding to the faulting translation, executing
them in the original program order, handling any special cases that are encountered, and invoking the x86
exception-handling procedure if necessary.
Commit and rollback also apply to memory operations. Store data are held in a gated store buffer, from which they
are only released to the memory system at the time of a commit. On a rollback, stores not yet committed can
simply be dropped from the store buffer. To speed the common case of no rollback, the mechanism was designed so
that commit operations are effectively "free"[27], while rollback atoms cost less than a couple of branch mispredictions." Reply
name99 - Monday, January 06, 2014 - linkThis is not especially new (though it might have been in Transmeta's time).
Given the existence of robust and generally accurate branch prediction, a number of architectures have been proposed that are based on checkpoints and rollbacks rather than a ROB. There are a number of ways you can slice this, with the newest, richest, ideas having names like CFP (Continuous Flow Processing) and DOE (Distributed OutOfOrder Execution), both created by folks with Intel affiliations.
What these architectures do is help you with long memory latency delays because (in spite of what the above author said) OoO doesn't help much there. OoO covers L1 delays, most L2 delays, some L3 delays if you're lucky, and very little of the main memory delay. That's why prefetching is still an active area of research (e.g. there were some minor but cute improvements to prefetch in Ivy Bridge). The problem is the length of the ROB limits how far you can cover latency in a ROB architecture, and you can't make the ROB much larger because that increases the size (and slows down) the register file. Checkpoint architectures are not constrained in this way.
HOWEVER all this is neither here nor there.
There are three interesting claims being made about Denver
- it uses a checkpoint architecture. Interesting if true, because this type of architecture has the potential to be the general replacement for ROB OoO; even if the first implementation is only equivalent of ROB OoO, there are many new optimizations it opens up
- it uses some sort of "Code Morphing". Who knows WTF this means. Could be anything from rewriting ARM assembly to an internal ISA (like Apple have done many times, from 68K->PPC to Rosetta; likewise DEC did this to run x86 binaries on Alpha) to PPro style µOps to something very minor like the way POWER "cracks" a few instructions to simpler instructions.
- it is "7-wide". If this is an issue width, it's a bullshit measure that no-one who knows anything cares about. If this is a Decode/Rename/Dispatch width, it is a major leap forward, and the only likely way it is doable at such low power is through use of a trace cache which records dependency and remap information. If nVidia has this, it would be very cool.
Given that this is nVidia, my betting would be that every one of these is underwhelming. The exciting checkpoint architecture is in fact a standard ROB (with standard ROB limitations). The code morphing is minor cracking of a few "hard" instructions. The 7-wide refers to issue width so, ho-hum. Reply
Loki726 - Tuesday, January 07, 2014 - link"This is not especially new."
Agreed. I mainly posted it for reference in case someone had not seen it before. Reply
Da W - Monday, January 06, 2014 - linkFor that matter i would prefer a Kabini surface mini and for AMD to follow Nvidia in game streaming (from PC or from Xbox one). Reply
chizow - Monday, January 06, 2014 - linkGreat write-up guys, you're right, this is the most exciting announcement I've seen in the CPU/GPU/SoC space in a very long time, similar to A7 Cyclone but 2x that due to both CPU and GPU bombshells. It's probably the first analysis I've read in full because everything was just that interesting relative to what the rest of the industry is doing.
One burning question that I did not see touched upon at all, here or elsewhere:
****What does Tegra K1 do for Nvidia's Kepler IP tech licensing prospects?
It seems to me, even if Tegra itself is not a smash hit for Nvidia in terms of design wins, the GPU technology is so disruptive that even if it gets into a few major designs (Surface 3, Nexus 7 2014, Asus Transformer for example) it may very well *FORCE* the other major industry players (Intel, Samsung, Apple) that don't have their own in-house graphics IP to license Kepler to remain competitive?
What do you all think? Any buzz on that front at CES? Reply
OreoCookie - Friday, January 10, 2014 - linkAs far as I can tell, nVidia only compared the GPU performance of the A7 to Tegra K1 but not the CPU performance. I'd be very curious to see how the Denver cores compare to Apple's Cyclone cores, though.
Also, given Tegra's release date, it'll compete with Apple's A8. Reply
Krysto - Saturday, January 11, 2014 - linkBased on the (limited) technical description and how massive those cores are, along with clock speeds that are almost twice as high as what Apple typically uses, I'd say they will beat Apple's A8 (probably just an upgraded Cyclone) pretty easily - unless Nvidia did something stupid with that software translation that adds too much overhead and and cuts the performance too much.
But since we don't know exactly what's going on inside of those CPU cores, we'll have to wait for more details or a direct comparison (and hopefully Denver actually arrives this fall, and not next year). Reply
OreoCookie - Sunday, January 12, 2014 - linkInitially, I thought so, too, but knowing it's a Transmeta Crusoe-like design, I'd be much more cautious about performance. At the same clockspeed, the Crusoe was about half or a third as fast as a Pentium III. The advantage was that the cpus consumed much less power.
Of course that tells us nothing of a comparison between the A7 or A8 and a Denver-based K1 other than that the architectures are not directly comparable. Reply
name99 - Monday, January 06, 2014 - link"
We've seen code morphing + binary translation done in the past, including famously in Transmeta's offerings in the early 2000s, but it's never been done all that well at the consumer client level.
Actually we've seen a few different versions of it which have worked just fine.
One obvious example (not consumer, but transparent) was IBM's switch over from custom cores to POWER cores for i-Series.
More on the consumer end, Apple have been doing this for years if you use OpenCL on their products --- they convert, on the fly, a byte code version of the GPU instructions to the target GPU. And of course anything that uses a JIT, whether it's targeting Java or JS (or Dalvik for that matter) is doing a similar sort of thing.
There may be uniquely painful aspects to doing this for x86/Windows, especially 15 years ago, but I don't think Transmeta's failure tells us anything --- this mainstream-ish tech. Especially now, in a world with hypervisors, where you have a more well-defined "space" for control code to run and bring up the OS step by step. Reply
ruthan - Tuesday, January 07, 2014 - linkOk, they maybe have enough GPU performance in this chip on paper. But how is final TDP SOC power consumation for 64 bit piece?
But if you want to have realy PS3 or Xbox performance, which was advertised / promised till original Ipad and we still arent here at all.
Other problem are game engines middleware performance, because 80% of mobile games using Unity3D engine, which in by my experience, much more HW resources greedy and inefficient (C# - has automatic garbage collection, all in Unity running in single thread, GUI performance is terrible, PhysX implementation is signle thread) that, that console developement kits.
Back into problem, GPU is maybe ok, but for final overall performance you need also CPU with desktop like performance and to freed GPU with data and im dont think so that these weak ARM is nearly here.
So in overall i dont agree with these big perfromance and desktop like performance promises at all, would be ok, but it is only empty words. Reply
kwrzesien - Tuesday, January 07, 2014 - linkI think nVidia has finally done it with a great SoC/GPU! I hope they get a few very solid design wins, it could change alot.
Looking at those beautiful chip diagrams I think they have the CPU/CPU balance just right. Reply
easp - Wednesday, January 08, 2014 - linkSo, it seems to me that 8 of these Denver cores would offer similar general purpose compute performance to a dual socket server from ~5-6 years ago, and yet, would make up a minuscule % of die area on a Tesla-class GPU die... Reply
Krysto - Saturday, January 11, 2014 - linkSome also say a Denver core should equal the Sandy Bridge core in performance, which would be quite impressive. That's what I have in my laptop, and it was a pretty high-end one 2 years ago. Reply
OreoCookie - Sunday, January 12, 2014 - linkWho wrote that, can you provide a link? I haven't seen any such claims. And I'm fairly sure nVidia would have mentioned that during the press event. Apple's A7 packs about the same punch as a Core 2 Duo, so it'd not be out of the question, but I'd be more cautious, especially seeing how high Intel's cpus turbo these days. Reply
PC Perv - Saturday, January 11, 2014 - linkHow can you make so many definitive statements over what was essentially a PR pitch? It's too bad there is no "critics" or ombudsman to hold these bloggers accountable over time. (Granted that is also why these bloggers will never garner respects from mainstream media) These bloggers seemingly get away with anything they say as long as they keep their industry friends happy.
If anyone wants to know what I am talking about, go back 2 ~ 3 years and check these clowns' articles. And check if they ever, i mean EVER, acknowledge their misjudgments or stupidity. Reply
PC Perv - Saturday, January 11, 2014 - linkFor instance, do you guys have any follow up on Tegra 4i?
Or ist it just the way it is with you guys? Just blow fanfare whenever OEM does a press conference, and completely forget about it in less than a year?
Have you no shame? Reply
TheJian - Tuesday, January 14, 2014 - linkWhat fanfare? T4i is a Q1 product and the modem just got certified on ATT last month or so. The whole point of the T4i is the modem and phones so what is the problem? NV already showed it doing 150mbps (an update from 100mbps preview info) and this hasn't even been rolled out yet (anybody else running this besides Honk Kong/Singapore?). What do you want them to report? This product has been PULLED IN along with K1 at the cost of some T4 delay and sales. This is not news and everyone (even this NV hating site) has reported it :) T4i if late at all is only because of the modem awaiting which after checking happened Early Nov.
Not sure this new modem speed is even interesting with caps we have today. At 50mbps on cable I can clock ~325GB or so pegged all day (that's north of 10TB/month). Even Hong Kong has a 10GB cap which is what, like 5x USA caps at 2GB usually? Even in HK that's only ONE 1080p flick and some browsing? I hope we start seeing Cell phone bill lawsuits soon that tie up these CAPPED companies so badly they are forced to stop this crap just due to litigation cost fears. But I think this is probably a pipe dream until google or someone else can offer unlimited mobile.
IE, google mentions rolling out Gbit internet in Austin, and ATT goes on immediate defense announcing huge speed upgrades (20x faster to 300mbps) and a future upgrade past that on the books not long after. So it is terribly expensive and not doable before google, but the same week google announces their roll-out, ATT can suddenly roll-out a huge upgrade and BEAT google's roll-out dates...LOL. But to match google's prices ($70) you have to OK them spying on you...ROFL. At least Google forced the updates.
Then claims they can deny google access to poles a few days later:
We can only hope the city votes on 23rd (next week) to allow low pole access pricing. Hard to say google would lose offering free internet to 100 libraries and public joints in the city that the CITY chooses, but they already delayed so maybe they're stupid or bribed heavily. :)
Maybe google just needs to announce everywhere and get ATT etc to announce matching $70 pricing then just say "just kidding". :) At worst they seem to easily force monopolies to respond as shown here. I hope they do the same in phones, amazon and apple too (heck MS also). We need all these big tech dogs to bark at cell providers big time and threaten their business models in any way they can. Competition from outsiders is sorely needed in cell or we'll be stuck with Verizon/ATT etc caps forever. Reply
phoenix_rizzen - Thursday, January 16, 2014 - linkRogers in Canada has 150 Mbps LTE using their 2600 MHz spectrum. It's been live for about a year now.
They ran a speedtest competition around the time they lit up the first 2600 MHz towers in Ontario, and there were a *lot* of entries showing over 90 Mbps entries. It's listed somewhere on their Redboard blog.
My phone only does 100 Mbps LTE, and our town doesn't yet officially have LTE (there are 2 towers with it enabled out of the dozen or so towers in town), but I can get a consistent 40 Mbps on speedtests, with the occasional jump over 70.
So, if backward old Canada can get 150 Mbps LTE working, anywhere should be able to. :)
Oh, and 6 GB data plans are very common up here. Reply
tipoo - Thursday, November 06, 2014 - linkI wonder if the code morphing has anything to do with the Nexus 9s performance inconsistency? Does amazing in most singular benchmarks, but when thrown multitasking or unpredictable code it chokes. Reply


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Charlie and the Angels
By Alex Caine
Random House Canada, 258 pages, $30
Judging by the latest true crime offering from Quebec-born writer and former undercover police agent Alex Caine, no one can hold a grudge like a biker.
Detailing a conflict between the notorious Hells Angels and the lesser-known, but equally (arguably more) powerful Outlaws Motorcycle Club, Charlie and the Angels is an interesting and detailed look into the history of these two gangs, and a rivalry that dates back over 60 years.
Caine even ventures into Manitoba, where the Hells Angels' one-time reign has been replaced by a different kind of gang culture.
The "Charlie" of the title is the deceptively friendly name of the red-eyed skull on the Outlaws' patch logo.
Caine spent over 25 years as a contracted agent, cosying up to Asian triads, the KKK, the Russian Mafia and biker gangs including the Hells Angels and the Bandidos (who he wrote about in his previous book, The Fat Mexican).
"I ran into a few Outlaws in those years -- a few the hard way," he writes, noting that he's witnessed the fighting between the two largest criminal organizations first-hand.
While working undercover, he even took part in the Bandidos' mediation of the Outlaws and Hells Angels 1984 conference in Sturgis, S.D., a legendary -- and rare -- sit-down between the rivals.
While he gives the history of both gangs, he dedicates more space to the Outlaws, which he says is "now the largest motorcycle club in the world, bar none."
The Outlaws formed just outside of Chicago in 1935 as the McCook Outlaws Motorcycle Club. At the time they were really just a group of motorcycle enthusiasts who liked to party hard. The Angels also weren't fully a criminal organization when they started in California in the 1950s, but that soon changed for both clubs.
While both are ruthless, Caine says there is a core difference between the two clubs. The Outlaws "are outlaw bikers first, criminals second. ... With the Angels, the reverse is true," he writes.
If Caine seems to go easier on the Outlaws, it's likely because, if the legends are true, it was the Angels who started the bitter rivalry by senselessly beating the Outlaws and snubbing their suggestion of an alliance in the 1950s. He offers other theories as to how the war started, but notes this is the most accepted one among biker circles.
To this day one of the Outlaws' mottos is "ADIOS (Angels Die in Outlaw States)".
Caine takes us through tales of assassinations, car bombings and beatings that span the globe.
In Europe, he says, police have a harder time fighting gangs because undercover operations and infiltrations are not legal there. In North America, these operations have been essential in major gang takedowns, such as Project Retire, a three-year Canadian initiative that led to the arrests of 60 Outlaws and associates across Canada and into the U.S.
Caine gives a lot of space to the clubs' activities in Canada, which appeared to start in the East in the late '60s/early '70s (the Outlaws were dominant in Ontario, while the Angels had more control in Quebec).
He dedicates a full chapter to the Hells Angels' rise and fall in Winnipeg, which he calls "the key to the West and its rich drug markets."
There was a point, about a decade ago, when Hells Angels president Walter Stadnick saw Winnipeg as a major strategic point to expand throughout Canada. However, Caine notes the takedown of several high-profile Hells Angels in Winnipeg in 2006 led to the rise of the city's mostly aboriginal street gangs, a clear example of how gang culture is evolving.
Multicultural and ethnic gangs may be the future of the criminal underworld, Caine says.
"They have several things going for them," he writes of Manitoba's native gangs. "One, of course, is several centuries of warrior culture, followed by two centuries of oppression. From a gang perspective, that is a magic formula."
Charlie and the Angels suffers a bit from Caine's not including more of his first-hand experiences with the clubs. A section on his final job as an infiltrator -- where he went to Australia to learn the biker politics police couldn't figure out -- which almost led to him being killed, is very compelling, but too brief.
However, Caine already covered the bulk of his own story in his first book, Befriend and Betray. Here instead, he offers a comprehensive overview of the violent biker brotherhood subculture.
And along the way gives a few stories of other police agents and informants and the worlds they risked their lives in.
Alan MacKenzie is a Winnipeg-based writer.


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SAN FRANCISCO -- The Phillies hope Jesmuel Valentin is one of two quality players to join the organization following the Roberto Hernandez trade with the Dodgers.
The Phillies acquired him Saturday as the first player to be named in the deal. The Phillies have until the middle of next month to select the second player, which will come from a remaining pool of three players. Phillies general manager Ruben Amaro Jr. indicated they are leaning toward a pitcher.
"We have a pretty good idea of who we want but we're still waiting to make a decision right now," he said. "We'll check on some medical stuff. They're younger guys. For the situation we're in and the player we gave up, I think we did pretty well. Even if we had just this guy, we'd be happy with it."
Prospect acquired by Phillies
Jesmuel Valentin, 2B: The son of longtime big league shortstop Jose Valentin, Jesmuel signed with the Dodgers for $984,700 as a supplemental first-round pick in 2012. He struggled in his first taste of low Class A in 2013 but has performed much better at that level this year, hitting .280/.349/.430 with 24 steals in 108 games. A switch-hitter, he has a little pop but is more of a contact hitter who might fit into the No. 2 spot in a Major League lineup. Signed as a shortstop, Valentin became a full-time second baseman in mid-2013 and the move seems to have relaxed him. He has a solid arm but his fringy speed and quickness fit better at second base.Top 20 Prospects: Phillies | Dodgers
-- Jim Callis
MLB.com ranked Valentin, who is the son of former big leaguer Jose Valentin, as the No. 13 prospect in the Dodgers' organization and places him 16th in the Phillies' system. Selected 51st overall as a supplemental pick in the 2012 First-Year Player Draft, Valentin was hitting .280 with 22 doubles, nine triples, seven home runs, 47 RBIs and a .779 OPS (on-base plus slugging percentage) in 108 games with Class A Great Lakes.
Valentin will report to Class A Advanced Clearwater.
"We like the kid," Amaro said. "He's got baseball acumen. He's advanced pretty quickly. He plays short and second; we'll probably have him play second base for us. Switch-hitter. Plays the game well. ... We're not sure if he's better from the right or from the left side. He doesn't have a whole lot of Minor League at-bats yet. But he's all right. He's someone who handles the bat pretty well. He has a little bit of pop. He's not a big guy, but has a little pop. He can run. He plays the game right. He plays hard."
Amaro said there is a chance the Phillies could make at least another trade before the Aug. 31 waiver Trade Deadline.
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A9 TV; Kanal Avrupa; Çay TV, 17 April 2011
Surat al-Qiyamah,
"No, I swear by the Day of Rising."
The Day of Reckoning. Resurrection.
"No! I swear by the self-reproaching self."
It is most legitimate for a person to reproach himself. That enables him to be rational. A person becomes sick when he exonerates the self, he loses mental equilibrium, in other words. There are those types who when you criticize they immediately begin praising themselves, denying what you say. But the rational thing is to say, "True. Insha'Allah I will correct my mistakes and be a better person." Fear of Allah and not exonerating the self. Reproaching the self.
"Does man imagine We will not reassemble his bones?"
Not those bones in the grave, of course. Not putting them all back together. Allah resurrects us with a new construction. He creates us with a new body. If He does it once, He will do it a million times. He does it all the time. Allah shows what He does. He keeps bringing people into the world. For instance, we come across young people. Some He brought into the world in 1980, and others in 1990.
"On the contrary! We are well able to reshape his fingers."
Allah notes the details in our finger tips in the Qur'an. Indeed, everyone's fingerprints are different, and this is most astonishing. Nobody's fingerprints are the same as anyone else's. Allah creates them specially.
"Yet man still wants to deny what is ahead of him,"
He says that human nature has a tendency toward debauchery.
"asking, so when is the Day of Rising?"
"when the eyesight is dazzled,
and the moon is eclipsed,
and the sun and moon are fused together,"
These verses refer to eclipses of the Sun and Moon.
They will look for a place to hide on the Day of Reckoning, of course. There will be upheaval everywhere. But there will be no escape for them.
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Surat at-Taghabun,
14- You who have belief! some of your wives and children are an enemy to you, so be wary of them. But if you pardon and exonerate and forgive, Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
15- Your wealth and children are a trial. But with Allah there is an immense reward.
Someone may hate his wife and children. There are people who kill their own mothers. Allah says that such people exist. Allah tells us to forgive their sins if they can be forgiven. Many people think about their property and children from morning to night. If you ask students at high school, young girls, "why are you studying?" they will say they are studying for the nation's sake. But the majority only study to have the means to eat and drink and find a husband to have children with.
Surat al-Munafiqun,
1- When the hypocrites come to you they say, 'We bear witness that you are indeed the Messenger of Allah.' Allah knows that you are indeed His Messenger and Allah bears witness that the hypocrites are certainly liars.
That means they appear to have faith, and they can appear to be like Muslims with their religious clothing and words. They can forestall their reactions and prevent them from adopting Islamic Union.
2- They have made their oaths into a cloak and barred the Way of Allah.What they have done is truly evil.
3- That is because they have believed and then returned to disbelief. So their hearts have been sealed up and they cannot understand.
So they believe at the outset. They realize that Hazrat Mahdi (as) will come and that the moral values of Islam will rule the world. But then they become non-believers. "Their hearts have been sealed up and they cannot understand." They become fanatical and radical.
Surat as-Saff,
4- Allah loves those who fight in His Way in ranks like well-built walls.
Muslims will be welded together like concrete blocks. That is Allah's command.
9- "It is He Who sent His Messenger with guidance and the Religion of Truth" Abjad (numerological) value 1993. "to exalt it over every other religions," 1990 "though the idolaters hate it." 2021, including the gemination marks. Global dominion.
Surat ash-Shura,
39- those who, when they are wronged, defend themselves.
Muslims' rights are being trampled on everywhere, in Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq and everywhere. Muslims are people who are united and engaged in intellectual resistance. But Muslims do not do that. It is a sin for them not to do it. It is compulsory. Being united in intellectual resistance and establishing Islamic Union is a religious obligation.
38- those who respond to their Lord and establish prayer, and manage their affairs by mutual consultation and give of what We have provided for them;
This means the whole Islamic world must be like a giant rampart. But Muslims are fragmented here and there. There must be an Islamic Parliament like the European Parliament. They must be able to say to America, "You must pull out. There are our brothers there, and we do not want you." And that will be the end of it. There will be a lovely, warm, democratic environment. It will also be a secular system, because hypocrisy thrives in the absence of a secular system. Believers will live by their faith and non-believers will live as they choose. You cannot compel anyone to religion. That is what secularism is.


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f = open ('//home//enrique//Desktop//WindCube//WLS7-94_merged_sta_files//WLS7-94_2012_01_02__00_10_00.sta')
data = [] # Define list
from numpy import * # Open numpy for later data handling
x = True
while x == True: # Read file until you reach 'Altitudes' (get rid of header')
line = f.readline()
Altitudes = line
if str.find(line,'Altitudes') == 0:
x = False
header = f.readline() # Get rid of last line of header
while line: #data starts, read data until the file is over
line = f.readline() #read line by line
delimitador = str.find(line,':') # delimiter to get rid of date when data was collected
data.append(line[delimitador+4:]) #storage each line of data into a list
As you can see, I got what matters from the data into a list of objects (basically lines of strings). what I did in MatLab was creating a loop that converts each line to double (str2num) and storages into a matrix, basically transform each line into a vector keeping the same format. I have no idea how to do this in matlab; the approach I am trying to take is to create a cellarray and storage each line as a row. The problem is, I have to convert the str into float. I tried the following:
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[float(i) for i in data[1]]
Tried picking object 1 from the list, but it doesn't work, it says it cant convert str into float. Some of the values into the data are empty or 'NaN', since it is formatted to be read into matlab. So I guess the problem is the 'NaN', is there any way I could get read of the NaN??? I did somthing similar in matlab once using string functions, but I have no clue of how to do it in python .
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Jill Ball alias Geniaus has issued a challenge to other genealogists to share their positive genealogical experiences in 2012.
Here is Mad About Genealogy's response
1. An elusive ancestor I found ….. not so much elusive as waiting in the wings, I had been promising myself for ages that I would get round to finding out more about Enoch Willis who left Stanford in the Vale, Berkshire and emigrated to Dunedin, NZ. 2012 was Enoch's year and whilst I have more to research on his children I have found out quite a lot about him already. Using the UK Newspaper collection on FindMyPast and the NZ Papers Past websites has been a great help. Hope Enoch didn't disturb too many people when he and his wife got very drunk in Stanford and then roamed around the village in the early hours of one Saturday night in 1871 !!
2. A precious family photo I found …. photos of Albert & Gilbert Diddams which I found via Ancestry. They were put online by Antonia Parker. Not many of my ancestors seemed to have the spare shillings to have a photo taken so any images are always precious.
3. An ancestor's grave I found….. my 2nd great Grandmother's place of burial was found via DeceasedOnline. Caroline Cannon nee' Warren was buried in the Cheshunt Burial Ground in 1894, she was only 59 years old and died of liver cancer.
4. An important vital record I found was ….. the christening of Susannah Sarah Clark , this lead me to her parents, her siblings and their families. I now just need the christening of William Clark who according to the 1841 census was born somewhere other than Middlesex around 1775, he died before the 1851 census when he would have been asked exactly which parish he was born in.
5. A newly found family member who shared … Maree Anderson has been so generous with information about Richard Elliott who emigrated to Australia leaving behind in Berkshire a rumour that my father's family had someone who went to the antipodes !!
6. A geneasurprise I received ….. being awarded a Certificate of Appreciation from the NZSG for commitment to the Bay of Islands branch.
7. My 2012 blog post that I was particularly proud of was ….. starting to put family history lessons onto www.madaboutgenealogy.com. As always I was surprised by what knowledge I had accumulated over the years and also humbled by the fact that there is so much more to learn.
8. My 2012 blog post that received a large number of hits or comments was …. Putting Your Family History Online For Free. Not sure why, but can only think that genealogists like the idea of publishing their research online and doing it for nothing!!
9. A new piece of software I mastered was …….. no new software this year, but I am still battling to find how I can solve Microsoft error 8024402f !!!!! I've tried everything that is recommended online and still it stops me doing updates. Some say it just disappears overnight so here's hoping!!
10. A social media tool I enjoyed using for genealogy was …. I'm still very much a novice with regards to social media, but I do my best on Twitter, Google Plus & Facebook.
11. A genealogy conference/seminar/webinar from which I learnt something new was…. Rootstech and National Archives UK Podcast series. Sigh … so much to learn and so little time.
12. I am proud of the presentations I gave at ……. Bay of Islands NZSG branch. Didn't do too many presentations in 2012, but have some great booking in 2013. Always good to talk to family historians.
13. A journal/magazine article I had published was ….. concentrated on my website so no journal/magazine writing in 2012.
14. I taught a friend how to ….. research her family history online by using lots of Google tricks and the wonderful and ever expanding Google Books.
15. A genealogy book that taught me something new was …. not a true genealogy book, but re-reading Peter Laslett's book "The World We Have Lost – further explored" gave valuable insight into ancestors lives. If you haven't read this book, then beg, borrow, steal a copy and enjoy the world of historical population studies.
16. A great repository/archive/library I visited was ….. British Library, I got to spend 2 fabulous days reading books and pamphlets which just aren't available elsewhere. Good tip is to be there at least half an hour before it opens to get a seat and then don't leave that seat vacant for the rest of the day. No seat ticket = no books.
17. A new genealogy/history book I enjoyed was …. "The Victorian Celebration of Death" by James Stevens Curl. Published in 2000 I now have my own copy and it is THE book for understand the Victorians attitude to death. London cemeteries being a side interest of mind that goes hand in hand with genealogy.
18. It was exciting to meet ….. the team who run the Sandwich, Kent Archives. They were so welcoming and helpful and allowed me to handle documents hundreds of years old once they were satisfied that I knew what I was about. Will be back to visit them in May this year. Genealogy has some wonderfully knowledgeable volunteers.
19. A geneadventure I enjoyed was ….. a 10 week trip to England, luck enough to be going back again this year and hope to visited the Berkshire Record Office and the Museum of English Rural Life
20. Another positive I would like to share is ….. that I feel lucky to have 'found' genealogy when you could handle documents at record offices and feel the dust of ages on your fingers and lucky that I am now able to sit at home and have scans of the same documents at a press of a button. I have experienced the best of both worlds.


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Inspriational mums and dads
This evening I spent some time talking to some really inspirational mums and dads who have children with ADHD, DAMP, Autism and other challenges.
This group is a new group in Huntingdonshire ADHD Support Group (a support group for people in Huntingdonsire who interact with people with ADHD), who meet monthly to discuss their needs as well as their children's. Click here to see their blog.
Mary Mills was first up as a speaker, she is a specialised teacher for children with special needs. She works for CAMH.
Next up it was me.... scared or what?! But luckily I had a lovely crowd to talk to. I spoke with two hats on... one as a Big Walkies director and the other as a Community Support Worker.
I discussed the benefits of Big Walkies and welcomed the group to attend any of our events. For a list of our up and coming events, click here. I'm pleased to announce that the ADHD Support Group will use our event on 17th July as their next meet too! It will be lovely to see everybody again.
Whilst talking about Community Support Work I mentioned a few tools that parents can access. I've included the links to them here, along with some that I've also thought may be helpful:
Pets as Therapy
Community Support Service
Young Lives
Young Carers
Contact a Family
Speaking Up
Dogs for the disabled
We also spoke about children and the fear of dogs. I'm happy to try to help any family with dog fear problems. Please contact us for more information.
My talk was followed by Claire Down as Reiki therapist who gives that hours break for mums and dads but also offers Reiki, Indian head massage and Hopi ear candle treatment for adults and children (Reiki for dogs too!). You can visit Claire's website by clicking here.
I really enjoyed this evening. I am truly in awe of these amazing parents and inspirational children.
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Braves pounce early, coast to win behind Hudson
Freeman, R. Johnson drive in three runs apiece in finale against Mets
ATLANTA -- For all the talk about their home runs, the Atlanta Braves proved on Sunday that they could do damage with the walk.
The Braves took advantage of seven walks by Mets pitchers, cashing in five of them for runs, and got three RBIs apiece from first baseman Freddie Freeman and right fielder Reed Johnson in a 9-4 win over the Mets at Turner Field.
"I thought our approach at the plate offensively today was outstanding," said manager Fredi Gonzalez. "We had some deep counts and got some timely hitting. The last couple of games, our offense is picking up a little bit."
"We played really good baseball today on the pitching side and on the offensive side," added Freeman, who went 3-for-5, scored twice and drove in three runs. "We got a lot of pitches on [Mets starter Jon] Niese really early and we worked the counts, got into hitters' counts, and were able to put some contact on some balls and get them in the outfield and get them in the gaps. It was a nice day."
The win snapped a three-game home losing streak and gave Atlanta a 3-3 record on its homestand before it heads out on a 10-game road trip.
Tim Hudson raised his record to 4-1, earning his second win of the homestand and extending his unbeaten string to three straight starts. Hudson recorded career win No. 201 with a solid effort, allowing three runs on five hits over 7 1/3 innings, striking out seven while walking one. In addition to the seven strikeouts, he induced seven ground-ball outs.
"I felt all right out there," said Hudson, who threw 62 of his 94 pitches for strikes. "Early on, I was making some pitches. They came out pretty aggressive and I was able to get some quick outs."
Jon Niese (2-3) took the loss for New York. Niese, who had allowed 12 runs in his previous six starts, gave up seven runs on seven hits, striking out three but walking six in four-plus innings. Four of the six batters who walked scored.
Atlanta put runners on in every inning and took advantage in the third, sending 11 men to the plate and scoring five runs for Hudson, who batted twice, reaching via a walk his second at-bat.
Following Hudson's leadoff lineout, the next six Braves hit from at least a 1-0 count. Five of the six reached, including Freeman, who slammed a two-run double to the wall over the head of Mets left fielder Lucas Duda. When Niese finally threw a first-pitch strike, B.J. Upton reached on an infield hit, and then Reed Johnson, also first-ball hitting, lined an RBI single into center. Uggla scored to give Johnson his first RBI of the season.
"I haven't had a ton of RBI situations, but I've had plenty out there to where I should have more than zero RBIs," said Johnson, who had his last three-RBI game on Sept. 2, 2012, against Philadelphia. "But to be able to get three today was good for my confidence."
Following the long inning, Hudson had his only tough frame, as he lost the plate and walked leadoff hitter Daniel Murphy, then fell behind 1-0 on David Wright. Wright drove the 1-0 fastball out to center, cutting the lead to 5-2. It was Wright's third straight game with a home run, one short of his career-long streak.
"[The bottom of the third] was a long inning, but long innings are good when we're hitting," said Hudson. "Obviously, you never want to go out there and walk the leadoff guy whenever you've got a nice lead, especially with a guy like David Wright on deck. It was a stupid move on my end. I paid for it, but luckily I was able to settle down and get some zeros after that."
Atlanta supported Hudson by adding on, getting a two-run ground-ball single to left from Johnson in the fifth, and Freeman's second homer of the season, an opposite-field blast off reliever Jeurys Familia in the sixth. His three RBIs on Sunday gave him 29 in his career against the Mets, his most against any team.
Freeman, who has reached base in five of his last six games, took all three hits the other way.
"When any hitter's driving balls to the opposite field, you know they're getting locked in," said Gonzalez.
Hudson was equally as locked in on the pitching side, allowing only three hits after the Wright homer and only one baserunner as far as second base, a leadoff double to pinch-hitter Mike Baxter in the eighth. Only two of the final 13 Mets hitters reached.
"It's a good feeling whenever he takes the mound," said shortstop Andrelton Simmons. "I get a lot more work. He had the good sinker working in and out, and fortunately it gets my fielding percentage up."
Wildness hurt the Braves in the eighth as two walks, including one with the bases loaded, and a hit batsman brought in two more runs. Eric O'Flaherty walked in run on a 3-2 pitch but then struck out Marlon Byrd with the bases loaded to end the threat. Byrd had homered off O'Flaherty to tie Friday's game.
"We got through the eighth inning," said Gonzalez. "When that door opens, you don't want to see guys walking guys or putting people on. We'll get through it. [O'Flaherty] made a great pitch on Byrd with the bases loaded."
Simmons, who jump-started the five-run second with a double down the left-field line, and catcher Evan Gattis had two hits apiece for Atlanta, which pounded out 12 overall.
Gattis' multihit game was his sixth of the season, and he hit a team-high .350 (7-for-20) during the homestand.
Jon Cooper is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Patents 101: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Patents
Columbia Technology Ventures
Thursday, January 24, 2013 from 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM (EST)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
Event Details
As the Columbia technology transfer experience demonstrates, patents can provide a successful vehicle for generating research funding for university inventions. Unfortunately, many seemingly harmless events occurring after the conception of an invention can jeopardize the right to file for a patent. Jeffrey M. Sears, PhD, Associate General Counsel for Columbia University, will present a patent law primer focusing on what you need to know to preserve patent protection for your inventions.
Jeff serves as an Associate General Counsel for Columbia University. He is a member of the Office of the General Counsel's Patent and Licensing Group, where his practice encompasses all aspects of patent law, including portfolio management, strategic counseling, licensing and post-licensing compliance, litigation, and legislative and regulatory patent matters. Jeff holds an S.B. in physics from MIT, an M.A. and Ph.D. in physics from SUNY Stony Brook, and a J.D. from NYU. He is admitted to practice law in New York and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
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Thursday, January 24, 2013 from 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM (EST)
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PEOPLE who live along a road they have dubbed a 'death trap' are celebrating a decision to close it to traffic.
Residents of Frampton End Road, which links Coalpit Heath with Iron Acton, have claimed victory in their lengthy battle to shut the narrow lane at both ends after convincing South Gloucestershire Council it posed a danger to the walkers and horseriders who use it regularly.
Nick Carver, who helped organise a petition signed by 760 people in favour of closing the road, said two dogs and five cats had been killed by cars on the road, a horse had to be shot after being hit by a vehicle and some property walls had been knocked over as many as seven times.
"There are a list of known incidents," he said. "A speeding car forced two walkers to jump into the bushes to avoid being hit and a motorcyclist was thrown from his bike when trying to avoid a car.
"There have been many more near misses and bumps in the night as well as numerous reports of vehicles swerving to avoid pedestrians, horses and cyclists."
Former local councillor and member of the Bristol Thursday Old Time Cyclists club, Alan Bracey, said cycling on Frampton End Road, which forms part of the Avon Cycleway and Frome Valley Walkway, was not enjoyable because of speeding traffic.
"Over recent years, the amount of motorist traffic has drastically increased," he said. "Frampton End Road and Mayshill are increasingly used by motorists as a rat run to avoid using the A432 Badminton Road or the B4058 Bristol Road around Iron Acton.
"I understand that there have been no serious injury accidents on Frampton End for some time but in its current state this is an accident waiting to happen."
Marilyn Wright, who has lived at Algars Mill on Frampton End Road for 31 years, said she regularly witnessed 'potential disasters'.
She said: "I have come very close to being hit by a speeding car on two occasions, one of which necessitated my diving through a hawthorn hedge.
"The users of Frampton End Road should be able to enjoy this lovely area in the Frome Valley without fearing for their safety. Like the animals, they are sometimes lulled into a false sense of security and may not be aware of the dangers."
But Nicola Johnson, of Mayshill, said she had been driving the lane twice a day for eight years and had not seen an increase in traffic.
"Since 2004 I have used the lane on a daily basis to drive my children to their local village primary school in Iron Acton," she said. "If the lane were to be closed I would have to drive to our local school via Yate, which is uneconomical, not environmentally friendly and robs us of our link with the local community."
Cllr Dave Hockey (Lib Dem, Frampton Cotterell) told the Gazette: "If there was one place that needs to be protected for people who value the countryside this is it. And if you cannot get this road closed you don't stand a chance anywhere."
South Gloucestershire Council's planning, transport and strategic environment committee supported closing Frampton End Road, Mayshill and Station Road at three points and introducing a 20mph speed limit.
The Frome Vale Area Forum will consider funding the closures at its next meeting on March 7.


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A primary focus of the Center for Great Public Schools is educator-driven evaluations. Toward that end, the Center is engaged in a partnership with the Oregon Department of Education in developing two pilot districts on teacher evaluation with an emphasis on supporting ongoing professional growth for teachers. Additionally, the Center is supporting the 12 other pilots by providing evaluation training, assistance to staff and leaders. To date, the Center has trained nearly 2,000 educators and administrators on how to develop effective evaluation systems that promote professional growth of educators not focused on standardized test scores.
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Preheat oven to 350°. Oil a muffin tin. In a large bowl, combine the first three ingredients. In a medium bowl, mix well the Edensoy, vinegar, oil, maple syrup, and vanilla. Stir liquid ingredients into the dry. Fold in bananas, walnuts and raisins. Fill muffin tins three-quarters full. Bake 30 to 35 minutes, until a toothpick comes out clean.
Yields: 12 large or 32 small muffins
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Thanks alot for that pointer I was having alot of package installs give me that error
If you are going to compile some stuff in BT3 it might happen to you that you receive the errormessage that gdkconfig.h is missing.
If so, open a shell and type in:
Restart the make and the problem should be solved.Code:ln -s /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include/gdkconfig.h /usr/include
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Thanks alot for that pointer I was having alot of package installs give me that error
Finally someone who can read. Bug and fixThanks for the input. I have already done that but the issue had not come up so I didn't consider posting it.
Seems that not many are compiling GTK applications from source.
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Thank you pureh@te and KMDave ,
after a short search nessus is up and running on Backtrack 3. The forums have been great and i look forward to lending a hand. Backtrack 3 has offed a lot more then knoppix STD and for that i am grateful
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Further Adventures in Celeb Baby Photos: Meet Bruce Willis' Baby Girl, Mabel Ray!
Bruce Willis' wife, Emma Heming-Willis Tweeted out an adorable pic of daddy and daughter, Mabel Ray, yesterday. Awwww!
-Lucia Peters
Wowzers. It's sure been an epic week for celebrity baby photos, hasn't it? First, we got introduced to Jack Osbourne's daughter Pearl; then we met Charlize Theron's son Jackson; and now we get to take a peek at Bruce Willis' little girl, Mabel Ray!
Bruce and his wife of three years, Emma Heming-Willis, welcomed their baby daughter to the world on Sunday, April 1. She's not quite six weeks old now—and my goodness, isn't she a cutie? Emma Tweeted out this adorable photo of daddy and daughter yesterday, along with the message, "A beautiful day in Budapest with the loves of my life. Daddy and Mabel cracking each other up." They look super happy, don't they? Awwww!
Read Video: Jon Hamm Answers the Pressing Questions of Teenage Girls
Also, I can't tell if it's a shadow or a trick of the light or whatever, but Mabel appears to have quite an impressive head of hair for a six-week-old. No bald babies here!
Mabel is the actor and his designer-model wife's first child together; Bruce has three other daughters—Rumer, 23, Scout, 20, and Tallulah, 18—with ex-wife Demi Moore, with whom he remains on excellent terms. The family is currently in Budapest with Bruce while he shoots the latest Die Hard movie, A Good Day to Die Hard.
Happy Friday, Bettys!
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In each of the following questions, there is a certain relationship between two given words on one side of : : and one word is given on another side of : : while another word is to be found from the given alternatives, having the same relation with this word as the words of the given pair bear. Choose the correct alternative.
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