[FFmpeg-devel] AVX512 NUCs for FATE and development

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

On Thu, 8 Dec 2022, at 22:20, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Dec 4, 2022 at 1:08 PM Kieran Kunhya <kierank at obe.tv> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> As discussed at the developer meeting it would be good to have an AVX-512
>> (ICL) FATE machine and also a development machine.
>> What I didn't realise until a few weeks ago is that 11th Generation NUCs
>> have AVX512ICL support.
>>
>> I suggest buying:
>>
>> 2x
>>
>> https://www.scan.co.uk/products/intel-nuc-bnuc11tnki70000-rocket-lake-core-i7-1165g7-dual-ddr4-so-dimm-slots-intel-iris-xe-graphics
>> - £529 each
>> 2x 2x 16GB RAM - 32GB in each (price TBC as I want to buy the right one,
>> RAM can be confusing)
>> 2x M.2 NVMe SSDs -
>>
>> https://www.amazon.co.uk/WD_BLACK-Internal-Gaming-Technology-speeds/dp/B08KFN1KT1
>>
>> £1500 total I would estimate.
>>
>> I am happy to host these (as with the M1s) but as these are NUCs anyone can
>> buy and host them easily.
>>
>
> +1 from me - AVX512-icelake is where a lot of x86 SIMD dev takes place in
> the next few years, and testing this new SIMD code in FATE is critical.

+1 from me too.


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