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Larrabee Based On a Bundle of Old Pentium Chips
arcticstoat writes "Intel's Pat Gelsinger recently revealed that Larrabee's 32 IA cores will in fact be based on Intel's ancient P54C architecture, which was last seen in the original Pentium chips, such as the Pentium 75, in the early 1990s. The chip will feature 32 of these cores, which will each feature a 512-bit wide SIMD (single input, multiple data) vector processing unit."
Ah the dreams of the past, a beowulf cluster of old computers come to life :)
Sounds great, as long as you don't plan on doing any floating point math on it!
This is just unbelievably good news. After all this time, I get to start telling Pentium jokes again! I never thought I would!
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Um, that just doesn't seem to quite add up to me.
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It's one of the larger cities in Wyoming. Get with it. ;)
It really is all about the Pentiums.
It's one of the larger cities in Wyoming. Get with it. ;)
Only if you have a head cold.
Core 1: 4195835/3145727 = 1.33382
Core 2: 4195835/3145727 = 1.33382
Core 3: 4195835/3145727 = 1.33382
Core 4: 4195835/3145727 = 1.33382
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Core 31: 4195835/3145727 = 1.33382
Core 32: 4195835/3145727 = mmm... 1.33374? Oh, f*ck!
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One does not "shrink" a chip by taking photomasks and shrinkenating.
'course not. You use a transmogrifier. In the industry, it is known as the "Bill Watterson" process.
It can also be used to turn photomasks into elephants, which, while less profitable, is immensely entertaining if the operator didn't see you change the setting.
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The three largest "Cities" are: Cheyenne -- 56k,
That's insane. I could get 56K people to yell at me to Turn That Shit Down by simply turning up my stereo and opening a window at 3am...
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I bet Duke Nukem Forever is gonna look SWEET on one of these!
- fully compatible with x86 instruction set. (whereas other GPU use different architecture, and often instruction sets that aren't as much adapted to run general computing).
I was about to ask "Since when is the x86 instruction set optimized to run general computing?"
Then I noticed that the word was "adapted". Yeah, that's fair...
Seriously: The x86 (inspired by the hardware driving Datapoint's early smart terminals and previous chips for building hand calculators) was contemporary with Motorola's 68x (inspired by Gordon Bell's masterfully engineered PDP-11 and VAX instruction sets). While a lot of good people have poured their hearts and souls into turning it into a silk purse, and the original sows were particularly good examples of their breeds, the x86's descent from a pair of sow's ears is still apparent.
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The hunt continues...
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Maybe we'll go back to a million 6502 cores running at 3 Ghz. P...
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You might want to keep the lock prefix for this kind of application. And the P54C didn't have BCD arithmetic - it had BCD load and store operations which translated to binary floats internally. You got the precision of binary floating point arithmetic and the storage density of BCD. Something only an Intel engineer could invent.
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