How much would someone bet that those will follow the very same restrictions that current GPUs have when they're used a stream procesoors? There aren't 10,000 ways to make parallel processing efficient.
If they don't put restrictions on when and how a program can use resources, simultaneous access to the memory by those cores would be a real nightmare to design, and worse to program. The best to currently use multiprocessing is by using GPGPU techniques, _because_ of those restrictions that make it possible to keep the GPU running without waiting too much on memory
Stream processing has many more applications than games or scientific computing, Intel is seeing that. But it seems like Nvidia is way ahead in that race... Let's see if Intel will take the lead.
The first thing that I thought of when i read your questionis "diabetes". My ex-girlfriend, and now my best friend, is diabetic andthe symptoms you describe are exactly the "same" she experiences inhypoglycemic situations: She has some big headaches and she gets angryfor nothing. After taking sugar, she's alright.
Oh, and just a thing that makes me think your problem isnt caffeine;there's no caffeine in Mountain Dew... but only a HUGE amount of sugar...:/
The question is: "Will it be good for the open-source movement and the technologies it develops?"
If you think a little about it, this could be a way for MS to kill a player (Xiph.org) that is doing it's way in the multimedia business.
In the open-source (and at the same time with Linux... cause it's where it gets the most used), we've got Ogg Vorbis, the best patent-free lossy audio format. To get the Unix market, MS has to kill it first. We can see that they've found a good way to do it. They're just forcing the market to adopt their codec as a standart so that unix users will be forced to used it too.
Then, there are theses projects, named Theora and XviD, which could become other good formats for the open-source community, but this time in the domain of video.
We can apply the same theory to this one... MS is just trying to kill them too, to gain the market that will be, again, forced to do a jump its propriatery technology...
So yes, it'll be good for *NIX users, but could kill the projects the open-source community is trying to create...
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How much would someone bet that those will follow the very same restrictions that current GPUs have when they're used a stream procesoors? There aren't 10,000 ways to make parallel processing efficient.
If they don't put restrictions on when and how a program can use resources, simultaneous access to the memory by those cores would be a real nightmare to design, and worse to program. The best to currently use multiprocessing is by using GPGPU techniques, _because_ of those restrictions that make it possible to keep the GPU running without waiting too much on memory
May I refer you to: http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/31/1633214
Stream processing has many more applications than games or scientific computing, Intel is seeing that. But it seems like Nvidia is way ahead in that race... Let's see if Intel will take the lead.
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The first thing that I thought of when i read your questionis "diabetes". My ex-girlfriend, and now my best friend, is diabetic andthe symptoms you describe are exactly the "same" she experiences inhypoglycemic situations: She has some big headaches and she gets angryfor nothing. After taking sugar, she's alright.
:/
Oh, and just a thing that makes me think your problem isnt caffeine;there's no caffeine in Mountain Dew... but only a HUGE amount of sugar...
I hope that helps
Moderators... please shut him out...
If it's going to be good for Linux users?
Yes
The question is: "Will it be good for the open-source movement and the technologies it develops?"
If you think a little about it, this could be a way for MS to kill a player (Xiph.org) that is doing it's way in the multimedia business.
In the open-source (and at the same time with Linux... cause it's where it gets the most used), we've got Ogg Vorbis, the best patent-free lossy audio format. To get the Unix market, MS has to kill it first. We can see that they've found a good way to do it. They're just forcing the market to adopt their codec as a standart so that unix users will be forced to used it too.
Then, there are theses projects, named Theora and XviD, which could become other good formats for the open-source community, but this time in the domain of video.
We can apply the same theory to this one... MS is just trying to kill them too, to gain the market that will be, again, forced to do a jump its propriatery technology...
So yes, it'll be good for *NIX users, but could kill the projects the open-source community is trying to create...