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

[Brian DeLacey]

Looking forward to Shankar's talk. How about we aim for August to build on
a budget?

On Thu, May 7, 2020, 03:52 John Abreau <jabr at blu.org> wrote:

> 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.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>> John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix
>>>>>>>> Email jabr at blu.org / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID
>>>>>>>> 0x920063C6
>>>>>>>> PGP-Key-Fingerprint A5AD 6BE1 FEFE 8E4F 5C23  C2D0 E885 E17C 9200
>>>>>>>> 63C6
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix
>>>>> Email jabr at blu.org / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0x920063C6
>>>>> PGP-Key-Fingerprint A5AD 6BE1 FEFE 8E4F 5C23  C2D0 E885 E17C 9200 63C6
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>
>> --
>> John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix
>> Email jabr at blu.org / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0x920063C6
>> PGP-Key-Fingerprint A5AD 6BE1 FEFE 8E4F 5C23  C2D0 E885 E17C 9200 63C6
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Officers mailing list
>> Officers at lists.blu.org
>> http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/officers
>>
>
>
> --
> John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix
> Email jabr at blu.org / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0x920063C6
> PGP-Key-Fingerprint A5AD 6BE1 FEFE 8E4F 5C23  C2D0 E885 E17C 9200 63C6
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.blu.org/pipermail/officers/attachments/20200507/6551dc01/attachment-0001.html>