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IEEE Says Multicore is Bad News For Supercomputers
Richard Kelleher writes "It seems the current design of multi-core processors is
not good for the design of supercomputers. According to IEEE: 'Engineers at Sandia National Laboratories, in New Mexico, have simulated future high-performance computers containing the 8-core, 16-core, and 32-core microprocessors that chip makers say are the future of the industry. The results are distressing. Because of limited memory bandwidth and memory-management schemes that are poorly suited to supercomputers, the performance of these machines would level off or even decline with more cores.'"
Once we get to 32 or 64 core cpus that cost less than $100 (say, five years), I'd HATE to have a beowulf cluster of those!
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I missed the days when super computers looked like alien technology or Raiders of the Lost Ark.
How about supercomputers that look like alien technology from Kingdom of the Crystal Skull?
George Lucas and Steven Spielberg raped supercomputing!
Only for Office 2007.
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It will only affect you if you're running ForecastFoxNG, where you can set the weather and the CPU will calculate where the butterfly should flap to get the effect you want (M-x butterfly).
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Because I'm sure inserting a random apostrophe into your code would make it run just fine...
"A supercomputer is a device for turning compute-bound problems into I/O-bound problems."
-Ken Batcher
That does it...I'm not buying a supercomputer this Christmas!
Hey dipshit. When you mock someone's grammar, you'd sure as fuck better not mis-spell 'apostrophe'
Idiot.
I'll paste it a few times so you can look at your grotesque failure more:
aprostrophe
aprostrophe
aprostrophe
aprostrophe
See how stupid that looks?
-knewter
How many times did you spell-check your post?
That's racist! I, myself, have consumed so much caffeine that I am now Korean, and I therefore converse in the language "l337".
"I disapprove of what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it" -Voltaire
... as long as you spell it right :)
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