Units of Measurement
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6 cores is Esacore. Hexacore is 16 cores (HEXadecimal means base 16).
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HexaDECIMAL is six + ten = 16. Hexa is six. A hexagon has six sides, not 16. Computer guys frequently are not aware of this, so they shorten down hexadecimal to hex, which is certainly not entymologically correct. Some day, but not yet, our language may have changed so that hex means 16 rather than 6. We have a somewhat similar situation in Norway: Entymologically, 'kilo' means 'thousand', nothing more. In Norway, it has come to mean 'kilogram'. You buy two kilos of flour. The weight of your car is 1200 kilos. No Norwegian questions it. But when Norwegians speak English, and they ask for, say, two kilo pack of flour in the grocery store, they are not understood. The day 'hex' has changed meaning from 6 to 16, how will you explain to your kid why a hexagon has only 6 sides?
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Nah, the question is what won't I be able to do with it! I plan to find out....
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote:
Nah, the question is what won't I be able to do with it! I plan to find out....
... run multi-threaded software that's not NUMA aware (aka almost everything except enterprise level servers) and that needs significant amounts of memory IO without significant degradations in performance, worst case is slower than on the 16 core equivalent that doesn't have the 2 CPU dies gimped due to not having direct ram access. [Conclusions: Not All Cores Are Made Equal - The AMD Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core and 2950X 16-Core Review](https://www.anandtech.com/show/13124/the-amd-threadripper-2990wx-and-2950x-review/15) YMMV, but unless you know your main workload will play nice, I'd recommend sticking with the 16 core 2950X, or upgrading all the way to Epyc which doesn't have the NUMA related problems because all cores are directly connected to RAM.
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Here's something I can't find the right keywords for googling: A PC with a six-core processor would be called Hexacore. With an eight-core processor it would be called Octacore. What would it be called with 32 cores? I found what the basic multiples of 10 are: hecto, kilo, mega and so forth but I don't know how to put them together to make 32. Can anyone help with this?
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When I got my first 6-core machine, I named it Sixpack. The 32 you could call the female way: "29 and a few months". A little more masculine: "The Fifth Power Machine". If you want to get historical, you could name it Germanium. Germanium has atomic number 32, and was the first semiconductor material used for transistors and diodes. What about "Twice legal"? Or is that too close to the suggested "XXX II Core"? I call my car Robert. It is a red Ford.
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Here's something I can't find the right keywords for googling: A PC with a six-core processor would be called Hexacore. With an eight-core processor it would be called Octacore. What would it be called with 32 cores? I found what the basic multiples of 10 are: hecto, kilo, mega and so forth but I don't know how to put them together to make 32. Can anyone help with this?
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
I'll go with the temp naming scheme used for new elements and call it a TriBi-Core.
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Here's something I can't find the right keywords for googling: A PC with a six-core processor would be called Hexacore. With an eight-core processor it would be called Octacore. What would it be called with 32 cores? I found what the basic multiples of 10 are: hecto, kilo, mega and so forth but I don't know how to put them together to make 32. Can anyone help with this?
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Here's something I can't find the right keywords for googling: A PC with a six-core processor would be called Hexacore. With an eight-core processor it would be called Octacore. What would it be called with 32 cores? I found what the basic multiples of 10 are: hecto, kilo, mega and so forth but I don't know how to put them together to make 32. Can anyone help with this?
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote:
I might have to come up with a different naming scheme for my PC's however,
32 cores, eh? How about [BFG 9000](http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/BFG\_9000\_(Doom\_2016)) ?
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Marc Clifton wrote:
32 cores, eh? How about BFG 9000 ?
I would just call it "ShowOff"... ;P
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Nah, the question is what won't I be able to do with it! I plan to find out....
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
What can't you do with it? IO for one. Computing is probably another. You'd probably be better off with eight 4x PCs. IO didn't scale. Neither did RAM bandwidth. And there's a certain amount of scalability when adding processors. It is possible to even end up with a slower system than if it had fewer CPUs. You will, however, end up with something to boast about :)
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For some reason it reminds me of "vitameatavegamin" from I Love Lucy many, many years ago!
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It's tasty too!
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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And, do you know why computer guys tend to mix up Halloween with Christmas day? Because 31 oct = 25 dec
:)
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When I got my first 6-core machine, I named it Sixpack. The 32 you could call the female way: "29 and a few months". A little more masculine: "The Fifth Power Machine". If you want to get historical, you could name it Germanium. Germanium has atomic number 32, and was the first semiconductor material used for transistors and diodes. What about "Twice legal"? Or is that too close to the suggested "XXX II Core"? I call my car Robert. It is a red Ford.
