A change of domain
A minor weather update.
Due to cost cutting efforts I’ve needed to make as my life changes, and out of respect for my ceaseless commitment to finish the things I start despite the record for doing so being less than stellar… I thought it’d be best to announce for the record that I have decided to ditch the old .ai domain name for a move to a subdomain of Xion Megatrends. If we’re being honest, it wasn’t that good of a choice anyway, Charles once quipping about overtures to the AI craze our industry is (still, sadly) inundated by.
Soon, you will not find the Grovercomp weblog on log.grovercomp.ai, but rather grovercomp.xion.mt.
I found a new server box to house the first of what will eventually be a total of six nodes, each sporting three (3) Xeon Phi 5110P cards. It’s a rackmount chassis with proper cooling and came with its power supplies and connecting cables included. While it does have room for four (4) cards, the PSUs are not so permitting, plus it would save space for a high-bandwidth NIC if that is something we end up wanting to use.
I also finally got my hands on a 3120A for my personal home desktop, Henen-nesw. When I get its cover spray-painted, I’ll be sure to post it up on here.
Life is busy and full of adversity. I am honestly lucky to have found as much time and energy as I have for all of my pursuits in computing, considering the circumstances of the last few years.
Once built, I will leverage Grovercomp in all of its might as a target for the Oración assembler. I hope to run x86-64 code as natively on these coprocessors as I do on all of these CPUs, and have that integration reflect in the menagerie of tooling Xion will soon provide. Proofs of concept run on Grovercomp will ultimately set the stage for Anodyne. This was always the end game for this project.
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