What does /g/ needs his Threadripper for?
>>107748478I would only ever use gentoo if I had one of these
>>107748478What does anyone need them for? Usecase?
>>107748611Workstations, presumably. Hardware manufacturers are still pretending that segment exists despite sales being in the triple digits for like a decade now.
>>107748677What kind of workstation, what's being done on it?
>>107748478chat is this real?
Threads are honestly still way ahead of their time despite the fact that they should be figured out as of 20+ years ago. GPUs have completely stolen the spotlight but only because they are relatively easy to program. A lot of posers like to larp like they know how to do multithreaded programming and it's not that hard etc but truth of the matter is nobody has delivered on that promise besides operating system kernels, user space is a complete mess and it might be on purpose. Truth of the matter is that the use case for highly performant threads is restricted to absolute retard tier implementations of like servers and virtual machines, nothing actually useful at the application layer. A testament to how absolutely difficult it is to get right. It's still just a matter of time perhaps, but it will take more than just effort, divine intellect is needed.
>>107748611>>1077486923D rendering, multiple VMs, containers, automating bots, etc
>>107748478Compiling C++. At work I have 7950x and it takes 10 minutes to fresh build the project I work on - and that is just 3M LoC.
>>107748692Capital W Workstation. Not your gayming desktop. They were up to 100x more powerful than personal microcomputers around the turn of the millenium and would run Unix while home desktops ran DOS. Rendered early Pixar movies and stuff. The segment doesn't really exist anymore because all use-cases are better handled by desktops or rack servers with how hardware has progressed and slowed progressing.>>107748862When you have that many threads, applications' inability to use them is more from Amdahl's law than programmer incompetence. Only embarrassingly parallel applications could ever hope to use more than 4-6 threads or run on the GPU. That's why SIMD and very wide AVX is so important, they can solve a hell of a lot more problems, and also using them is more commonly a benefit due to the lower overhead. Ideally you'd do both of course but again, Amdahl. That's why server CPUs are for you know... servers. You can only use the cores by doing multiple things or the same thing multiple times.
running 2 electron programs
>>107748478Mining Monero for negative profit
>>107748478>no m.2 >no satawut
>>107749293Photoshop and Premiere are also optimised for multithreading
>>107748478Running a bunch of virtual machines to remotely access elsewhere around the house.
>>107750015m.2 on the back.Maybe SATA, too, but probably not.
>>107748611Imagine the boot times. Wow.
>>107750710Why is Manlytears holding that CPU like that?
>>107748478> What does /g/ needs his Threadripper for?To rip threads.
>>107750959Around 1min with fast boots etc disabled. >>107754074this
>>107754164What do you use it for that a Ryzen 9 can't do?
With just 2 channels you are going to starve anything with more than 12 cores.
>>107754164this activates my monkey brain so hard its unreal
>>107748611posting simultaneously on 4chan, reddit, discord, X without any lag.
>>107754164>96 cores with AVX-512very cool
Alright...Who's got the swastika pic?
>>107748478Weird segment that's neither consumer nor enterprise
>>107748478That board is pants-on-head retarded. Get a Ryzen/non-W Xeon for an ITX build.>>107749293Workstations have perpherials that take advantage of I/O connectivty, memory bandwidth, capacity of Threadripper/Xeon W platform. The form factor ITX has none of it making the CPU a complete waste. Get a Ryzen/non Xeon-W in that ITX build.
>>107750015workstation boards use U.2 instead of those.
>>107754164>768GB DDR5 8-channel>96GB per stickYou could trade that server for like 2 entire houses.
>>107748478would
>>107755973>That board is pants-on-head retarded.yeah, case in point, you are arguing about a photoshop mockup.
>>107755228de novo genomic assembly, post NGS.
>>107748611Dumping EPYC cores not good enough to make it + giving retards with money something to brag about. But as >>107748677 said there are fewer and fewer retards of this kind since Intel exited the market (out of shame because they couldn't compete, but still)
>>107756039Can't you just use a Ryzen 9 + AMD GPU combo for that?
>>107756075With a reference genome, sure. Otherwise not a chance in hell.I don't understand the nuts and bolts behind it, buy the process is cpu bound and benefits greatly from the number of threads. Also eats up ungodly amounts of ram for a medium size genome. Pretty sure a ryzen 9 system won't support enough. Runs ok-ish on 512gb, but 1 tb is best.Also good for big phylogenetic searches if you don't wanna rent the computing power for some reason.
>>107756126Why not build a 2+ socket EPYC system then? With the benefit of allowing even more RAM
>>107755285but could ms teams switch channels in <1s with it?thats the real test
>>107750089rendering is embarrasingly parallel
>>107748478it's so I can compile on gentoo quickly.also, I have a lot of video data that I process and I'm using 60 pcie lanes.
>>107756334The best I can do is forcing you to sign in again for no reason and then forgetting which conversations you've read, all with noticeable sluggishness and input lag.
>>107748611Lots of simultaneous workers for scientific computation/optimization/engineering research. If you work in non-linear optimization research, having a fuck ton of parallel workers is a fantastic time-savings.
>>107749936Kek!
>>107748478Whatever the fuck we want because we live in countries with running water so we're free to choose what we want to spend our freedom bucks on.
>>107757077Nigga quit playing like the supposed first world isn't broker than a bitch and living on credit
>2 ram slots>no double side for ram maxxinge waste
>>107757101This, I remember during X99 ASrock was making mini-ITX 2011 boards with two ram slots on it, goofiest thing ever because you buy X99 for PCIe lanes and memory channels over a Z97/Z170 at the time.
>>107757115Ameritard companies can't do anything right
>>107757133Asus is taiwanese retard>still a shit company forcing spyware and fucking people with the RMA tho
>>107757133>workstation motherboard>only pcie x4Why?
>>107754164350w in this economy?
it can run crysis on the egpu
>>107757172Usually you're not really restricted by PCIe bandwidth.
>>107757094Yes and it's our freedom to be as broke and in debt as we want, God bless the first world.
The only multi threaded program I've made was pinging multiple ips at the same time to get latency.
>>107748478>What does /g/ needs his Threadripper for?I need a mobo to equip with my surplus terrabytes of RAM.
>>107748611
>>107748677Nobody would use a mini ITX board with only 2 ram slots for a workstation except when you are mentally retarded.
