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Compucon CPD Seminars
2017-03-08 Wed
Compucon House
Continuing Professional Development plays an important role in assisting Compucon channel peers to remain current and develop new competencies in information technology practices. Please register by replying to this invitation message ASAP.
4:00pm - 5:00pm Compucon System Roadmap 2017 Q1 (TN)
5:00pm - 6:00pm FFMPEG for Audio Video Applications (Stefan)
6:00pm - 7:30pm Wine and Cheese
Compucon System Roadmap 2017-Q1
Moore’s Law hitting the wall is a real life situation as Intel has announced an extension of the 14nm semiconductor technology from the standard 2 CPU generation releases per node cycle to 3 last year and to 4 recently. We will look at the big picture of how the PC industry is responding to this situation as the guidance to how Compucon should respond. Whilst Intel is losing some of its natural strengths (Moore being a director of Intel), AMD takes the opportunity to show how computing technology is done without depending on Moore’s Law and has developed a new ZEN core for CPU and VEGA core for GPU based on 14nm. AMD has already turned around their fortune as investors are rushing in to support AMD. Even Intel wants to get a license of AMD GPU technology too! Where is ARM then? ARM has given up the desktop space and is going direct from the portable space to the data centre. There are claims that ARM will match or surpass Intel Xeon this year in performance and power efficiency. Of course, we have not given up the desktop space and will explain our progress in preparing the launch of On-Ramp System #1 (ORS1) which will include a couple of FFMPEG applications. ORS1 is intended to illustrate how we achieve the X-factor which could be 2 or 10 times of the performance of mainstream machines.
FFMPEG for Audio Video Applications
FFMPEG is a collection of video encoding, decoding, and processing libraries that function as a kind of "Swiss-army-knife" of video manipulation. The FFMPEG project has been in development for over 10 years and it accumulates contributions from developers across the globe. This talk will examine how it fits in with the ORS1 project. Preceding this would be an introduction on GPU and OpenCL to set the scene. After we have gone into FFMPEG, we will examine how it facilitates video encoding and decoding. Nevertheless, our main theme is on video filters which are post-production video after effects (such as sharpening or blurring some objects). Video filters need to work on videos that are in a decoded state, and to bring in the encoder after the video has been processed with after-effects. The essence of this talk is to inform our peers how we prepare for ORS1 to illustrate the X-factor of performance supremacy.
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A Telarc Quality Management System auditor visited Compucon on 2017-01-20 with the goal of obtaining evidence for re-validating the ISO 9001:2008 certificate that Compucon has been holding for many years. The audit confirmed that all aspects have been complied with and the certification is thus re-validated. The auditor took the opportunity of finding if Compucon was ready for ISO 9001:2015 which is intended to replace ISO 9001:2008 in September 2018. The answer is affirmative although Compucon shall produce an internal documentation to support the new certification standard.
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These are sample systems measured with a power meter during Production for reference. Systems are typically running Windows and BITPRO during QC to estimate the upper range of power usage.
System NZ-B2-57117B:
- Platinum DXG 2U
- 2*E5-2620V4, 8*8GB, 3A8805E, 3T73, 8*3TB HDD
- 740W Redundant PSU Platinum
- Measured 240W --> 300W max.
System NZ-B2-57118M:
- Workgroup SX E3 1U
- E3-1231V3, 4*8GB, 3T73, 4*2TB HDD
- 350W Single PSU Gold
- Measured 105W --> 150W max.
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This article is for advanced users of Windows PE. It allows us to add driver support to WinPE.
Prepare the drivers on a UFD (USB Flash Drive)
- Download the driver files. For example if you are adding drivers for an Adaptec 8805 controller, go to https://storage.microsemi.com/de-de/support/raid/sas_raid/asr-8805/ and download the correct driver for your OS, such as 'Microsoft Windows Server 2012 x64'.
- Extract the driver files onto your UFD.
- Plug in your UFD into the target system with WinPE running.
- At the command prompt within WinPE, find out what drive letter has been assigned to your UFD by using 'diskpart' then 'list vol'. Exit out of diskpart once you've identified the correct drive letter.
- Now type 'drvload.exe C:\arcsas.inf' where C is the drive letter for the UFD, and arcsas.inf is the main driver file. (arcsas.inf is for Adaptec drivers or iastorE.inf is for Intel Rapid Storage drivers)
- Note: do not reboot WinPE even if the command prompt asks you to reboot for the driver to take effect.
- The driver should now be loaded and you should be able to install an OS onto RAID controller attached disks.
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