[BLU/Officers] AMD Ryzen talk for May BLU meeting?

Thu May 7 03:52:08 EDT 2020

Sounds great. Thanks! I'll update the BLU calendar once I receive t your
abstract.

Brian, we currently have Federico booked for June and Bill Ricker for
September, but July and August are available.  I can schedule your budget
build talk for one of those meetings.

On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 1:43 AM Shankar Viswanathan <shankar.viswan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I am going to shoot for about 40 minutes worth of slides. Given my past
> history at BLU, I expect it will actually take me 80 minutes to get through
> :-)  Brian and I decided that it would make more sense for us to talk about
> a budget build in a separate meeting later.
>
> I will send you an abstract of the talk over the weekend once I have a
> chance to put the outline together.
>
> -Shankar
>
> On 5/5/20 3:24 PM, John Abreau wrote:
>
> Shankar, can you confirm how long your presentation will be?
>
>
>
> On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 7:13 PM Brian DeLacey <bdelacey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm definitely interested in discussing options for a budget build!
>>
>> On Fri, May 1, 2020, 01:19 Shankar Viswanathan <shankar.viswan at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Ok, I can put together a description of the architecture of the latest Ryzen
>>> chips  - both the variants with integrated graphics (aka APUs) as well as
>>> just the CPU chips.
>>>
>>> Brian: would you like to talk about options for a budget desktop build?
>>>
>>> I agree that Jitsi worked great last time - it used it once about a year
>>> ago, but it seems to be a lot more polished now. After the last BLU meeting
>>> I've used it for remote family IT support and it's been remarkably painless!
>>>
>>> -Shankar
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 4/30/20 6:14 PM, Brian DeLacey wrote:
>>>
>>> I'll second the motion that Shankar does this :)
>>>
>>> I was impressed by the last Jitsi talk - it really worked surprisingly
>>> well ... maybe Shankar can come up with an "AMD Powered" logo for this?
>>>
>>> Brian
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 5:54 PM John Abreau <jabr at blu.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi, guys.
>>>>
>>>> I haven't received a response yet from Mike Frysinger about his Gentoo
>>>> talk for the May BLU meeting. I just sent him another email asking him to
>>>> confirm by tomorrow (Fri May 1st) whether he'll be able to give hisd talk
>>>> on May 20.
>>>>
>>>> I imagine at this point it's unlikely he'll be available, even if he
>>>> does respond.
>>>>
>>>> Assuming he's not available, can you guys do a BLU talk remotely in
>>>> Jitsi on May 20 about the AMD Ryzen and its HPC implications?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 12:21 AM Brian DeLacey <bdelacey at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Ty. I'd like to build a budget Ubuntu box
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Apr 27, 2020, 00:05 Stephen Ronan <sronan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> in case of interest:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://slashdot.org/story/20/04/26/1622236/new-cpu-performance-testing-concludes-amd-beats-intel
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  -S
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 2:16 PM John Abreau <jabr at blu.org> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Yes, this would be a good topic.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm waiting to hear back from Mike Frysinger to confirm whether he's
>>>>>>> available to give his Gentoo talk in May. If it turns out he's unavailable,
>>>>>>> perhaps you guys can do an AMD talk in May. Otherwise, July and August are
>>>>>>> still available.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 9:56 AM Brian DeLacey <bdelacey at gmail.com>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> This is crying out for a meeting! Jitsi worked great
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> AMD launches budget Ryzen processors
>>>>>>>> Apr. 21, 2020 9:46 AM ETINTC
>>>>>>>> Getting out ahead of Intel's (INTC -1.6%) Core i3 lineup, AMD (AMD
>>>>>>>> -0.1%) announces the quad-core, eight-thread Ryzen 3 3300X and 3100
>>>>>>>> processors.
>>>>>>>> Built with 7nm process tech and Zen 2 architecture, the $99 3100
>>>>>>>> has a 3.8 GHz base frequency and 3.9 GHz boost. The $120 3300X has
>>>>>>>> 3.8 GHz and 4.3 GHz, respectively.
>>>>>>>> AMD also announces the B550 motherboards, which support the PCIe
>>>>>>>> 4.0 interface on the new Ryzen models and will come from OEMs like Asus and
>>>>>>>> MSI.
>>>>>>>> Availability: The Ryzen processors will start shipping next month,
>>>>>>>> and the B550 will follow on June 16.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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