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SW Weenies: Ready for CMT?

Posted by Hemos on from the step-on-up dept.

tbray writes "The hardware guys are getting ready to toss this big hairy package over the wall: CMT (Chip Multi Threading) and TLP (Thread Level Parallelism). Think about a chip that isn't that fast but runs 32 threads in hardware. This year, more threads next year. How do you make your code run fast? Anyhow, I was just at a high-level Sun meeting about this stuff, and we don't know the answers, but I pulled together some of the questions."

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  1. Ready for CMT? Hell no! by iostream_dot_h · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now my hardware will force me to support CMT on my computer? This is as bad as DRM.

  2. WTF? by Timesprout · · Score: 4, Funny

    and we don't know the answers, but I pulled together some of the questions."

    What is this now, Questions for Nerds. Stuff we dont know?

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  3. Vader vs. Brooks? by hraefn · · Score: 3, Funny

    I almost thought this was going to be about Star Wars nerds being forced to watch something on Country Music Television.

  4. One Weenie's Perspective by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well I am a Star Wars weenie, and I am definitely NOT ready for Country Music Television.

  5. Big Hairy Package by Tweak232 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "The hardware guys are getting ready to toss this big hairy package over the wall:"

    Vivid imagary...

  6. Re:Ready for CMT? Hell no! by NoData · · Score: 3, Funny

    Seriously! And why foist this garbage on the Star Wars (SW) weenies? Has John Williams gone country?

  7. Re:Niagara Myths by rwyoder · · Score: 3, Funny
    On a good day, with a following wind, Niagara might be able to do 8 integer instructions per second...
    Uh, I believe they said it was 1.4GHz, not 1Hz.
  8. Re:Niagara Myths by turgid · · Score: 4, Funny
    Uh, I believe they said it was 1.4GHz, not 1Hz.

    Yes, and I corrected myself straight away in another post. In true slashdot style, the post where I corrected myself got modded down to Offtopic.

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