for the most part general purpose assembly language code will be a for really specialized tasks only. Rely on the compiler team to produce a good compiler with profileing to improve performance (unless you can think like a pipelined cpu that is)
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$1200 Cheap!
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While true that the Gartner Group conducts market analysis (phone/mail questions) There is a gap between market trends (i.e. would you by a CPU that runs @ 2G to improve computing speed and how that translates into actual sales.
I would bet that the unit would need to be priced nearer the lower price mentioned in order for the xbox to take off.
Beware market trends reality, ask coke about New coke and why coke is now called Coke Classic.
Not knowing alot about Beowulf, I looked at the site pointed to by the link in the base article and would like to point out that Digital (DEC) had this capacity in the OpenVMS cluster available as early as 1984. By 1994 when Beowulf was started it was possible to build a cluster of
32 nodes with 8 processors per node. all clustered. Current alpha technology allows a 32 way cluster in a box!! x 32 systems.
Now while it may not be "open" in the linux sense of the word it is faster and the clustering technology is proven.
As a point of history DEC also had an MPP box with
64 processors which died in advanced development in the early 80's.
Java seems to be going in the right direction but it has a long way to go before the "write once run anywhere" statement will work. Using Visual Age Java on an IBM AIX system a translated application from c -> java runs about 2x slower when ported. The JVM crashes a fair amount and requires faster CPU and gobs more memory to get the same job done.
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for the most part general purpose assembly language code will be a for really specialized tasks only. Rely on the compiler team to produce a good compiler with profileing to improve performance (unless you can think like a pipelined cpu that is)
While true that the Gartner Group conducts market analysis (phone/mail questions) There is a gap between market trends (i.e. would you by a CPU that runs @ 2G to improve computing speed and how that translates into actual sales.
I would bet that the unit would need to be priced nearer the lower price mentioned in order for the xbox to take off.
Beware market trends reality, ask coke about New coke and why coke is now called Coke Classic.
Not knowing alot about Beowulf, I looked at the site pointed to by the link in the base article and would like to point out that Digital (DEC) had this capacity in the OpenVMS cluster available as early as 1984. By 1994 when Beowulf was started it was possible to build a cluster of 32 nodes with 8 processors per node. all clustered. Current alpha technology allows a 32 way cluster in a box!! x 32 systems. Now while it may not be "open" in the linux sense of the word it is faster and the clustering technology is proven. As a point of history DEC also had an MPP box with 64 processors which died in advanced development in the early 80's.
Java seems to be going in the right direction but it has a long way to go before the "write once run anywhere" statement will work. Using Visual Age Java on an IBM AIX system a translated application from c -> java runs about 2x slower when ported. The JVM crashes a fair amount and requires faster CPU and gobs more memory to get the same job done.
and the first hand-held computer that you could build yourself was the kim (remeber that one)??