Re: processors of the future: super-computer-on-a-chip?

Bill Todd wrote:
Joe Seigh wrote:


Intel at least wants to know how fast those angels can dance.
http://www.theregister.com/2006/08/22/intel_suite_help/
And maybe a few new dances as well.


Since I'd interpret most of that article as applying to chips with under 10 or so cores (in fact, the only example given is a 4-core chip), I'm not sure how you came to that conclusion. True, it states (though rather nebulously)

[quote]

"From everything we can see, there are certainly interesting things to do with tens of cores and hundreds of threads," Rattner said. "That's where we are targeted with our research."

[end quote]

but then immediately continues with

[quote]

Rattner urged chip makers not to get caught in a "core war" where they make myriad multi-core chips just because they can. Software and tools vendors have a lot of catching up to do before such chips will be useful in broad terms, Ratter said.

[end quote]

which somewhat resembles the observation I made myself.

...

It's probably as short sighted to say that we will never need more
then X cores as it was to say the world will never need more than
5 computers.


That could conceivably be why I suggested nothing of the kind, but rather that *some* broad, significant use should at least be envisionable for such products before the industry commits whole-heartedly to embracing them.


Yes, Intel is clearly worried about the "core war" where they will
be forced to build cpus that do not live up to consumer expectations.
But the vendors who are supposed to do the catching up, do they
know they're supposed to be doing that? Why should they expend
resources on what's essentially Intel's and AMD's problem?


--
Joe Seigh

When you get lemons, you make lemonade.
When you get hardware, you make software. .

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