( ) Praised MS ( ) Praised Linux ( ) Dissed Linux, but in a cleverly ironic way (X) Espoused a non-liberal, non-socialist agenda during an election season. (1/2) Proven to have at least one functioning brain cell
Please report to your local re-education facility immediately before the damage becomes irreversible.
Sorry bud - had to take away a 1/2 point on the last one for living in Canada for 4 years.
The funny thing is that I was just reading about CUDA, and the 240 cores in nVidia cards. Granted, these aren't general-purpose cores like a Core 2 Duo chip, but how long until we see general-purpose CPUs like this? nVidia uses a hardware scheduler to manage the threads so the software doesn't need to, so maybe that's the same way Intel/AMD would go.
I'm not really making a statement so much as wondering aloud: If nVidia already has 240+ cores in their cards, why does it seem so far out that Intel and AMD go the same route? Where's the fundamental difference other than the Intel/AMD architecture currently makes it difficult to scale to that many cores -- a limitation rather than an intentional design decision.
I've long had the feeling that many people claiming to be Americans on this board and elsewhere simply aren't. They make the claim in order to make their America bashing sound more like introspection than an outright attack, and therefore more "insightful" than "trolling".
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Sorry bud - had to take away a 1/2 point on the last one for living in Canada for 4 years.
The funny thing is that I was just reading about CUDA, and the 240 cores in nVidia cards. Granted, these aren't general-purpose cores like a Core 2 Duo chip, but how long until we see general-purpose CPUs like this? nVidia uses a hardware scheduler to manage the threads so the software doesn't need to, so maybe that's the same way Intel/AMD would go.
I'm not really making a statement so much as wondering aloud: If nVidia already has 240+ cores in their cards, why does it seem so far out that Intel and AMD go the same route? Where's the fundamental difference other than the Intel/AMD architecture currently makes it difficult to scale to that many cores -- a limitation rather than an intentional design decision.
I've long had the feeling that many people claiming to be Americans on this board and elsewhere simply aren't. They make the claim in order to make their America bashing sound more like introspection than an outright attack, and therefore more "insightful" than "trolling".