Let's face it.. this single CPU box we're all mostly using is beginning to hit it's inherent physical limits... Clock speed is driven by marketing... I mean I'm sure it has it's technical merits, but it's also a great marketing tools and Intel realized this early on. BUT anyway isn't it time to start focusing on multi-cpu desktop systems... you know those things everyone loves to hate "workstations"... remember SGI figured it out long ago.. SUN, HP and IBM know this too...
It might actually help to have higher-end PC that actually take into account the architecture of the entire system... internal I/O bandwidth, bus speed balancing...
Maybe we even need to start looking past the single desktop system and start really implementing network computing.. utilizing the network as a computational resource. Doesn't SUN claim "The Computer is the Network"...
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Let's face it.. this single CPU box we're all mostly using is beginning to hit it's inherent physical limits... Clock speed is driven by marketing... I mean I'm sure it has it's technical merits, but it's also a great marketing tools and Intel realized this early on. BUT anyway isn't it time to start focusing on multi-cpu desktop systems... you know those things everyone loves to hate "workstations"... remember SGI figured it out long ago.. SUN, HP and IBM know this too...
It might actually help to have higher-end PC that actually take into account the architecture of the entire system... internal I/O bandwidth, bus speed balancing...
Maybe we even need to start looking past the single desktop system and start really implementing network computing.. utilizing the network as a computational resource. Doesn't SUN claim "The Computer is the Network"...
Anyway I'm no expert by a long shot...