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Grid Processing
c1ay writes "We've all heard the new buzzword, "grid computing" quite a bit in the news recently. Now the EE Times reports that a team of computer architects at the University of Texas here plans to develop prototypes of an adaptive, gridlike processor that exploits instruction-level parallelism. The prototypes will include four Trips(Tera-op Reliable Intelligently Adaptive Processing System) processors, each containing 16 execution units laid out in a 4 x 4 grid. By the end of the decade, when 32-nanometer process technology is available, the goal is to have tens of processing units on a single die, delivering more than 1 trillion operations per second. In an age where clusters are becoming more prevalent for parallel computing I've often wondered where the parallel processor was. How about you?"
Yep, that's just what I wondered.
And before anyone says it, no I have ever thought about a beowolf cluster of those...
"Those who cast the votes decide nothing; those who count the votes decide everything." (attrib. Joseph Stalin)
Anyone remember from T2 what the CPU looked like? It was a 3 dimentional grid of CPUs...
Don't say I didn't warn you!
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If you want to know more, I'd be happy to consult at $300/hour.
Which is why most of your tech jobs are being shipped overseas.
Oh, you mean 9 women can't have the baby in a month? Crap. Another good plan shot to hell.
Actually, they can. If you keep 9 women constantly
pregnant on a rotation schedule, they will produce
one baby per month, with some variance and the
occasional miscarriage.
As a domain expert with years in parallel computing
under my belt, I claim dibs on that job.
-I like my women like I like my tea: green-