Jeff Mottle

Intel has built a prototype of a processor with 80 cores that can perform a trillion floating-point operations per second.

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Ernest Burden

Now let's see...how many Maxwell licenses would I need for that?

Processor cores are now propagating like transistors did in the early CPUs. Without different technology they've hit some ceilings on speed, but going parallel is working out nicely. The great thing is that its all just a temporary approach. Sooner or later we will see things like quantum computing and all this current tech will appear quaint. In the meantime, bring on the multi-core CPUs. With a side of more CPUs.

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Ernest Burden III
AcmeDigital
architectural rendering

vizwhiz

Jeff and Ernest and All

maybe we should start 'pooling' our money here are cgarchitect.com
and 'save' up for This new rendering system, and start our own in-house

rendering farm

'get down on The CGA Farm'

for The cga 3d/cg fanatic fantastics who need hi-end rendering (overnite)

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i used To work at a place (no joke, i have actually had a real
job in This lifeTime) That called itself, 'Outhouse Productions'

The motto was/is

'dont do It 'in house' , send it 'Out house''

i Trained 3 younger guys To do 3d modelling and rendering
and Then i got laid off, o well, i guess Life happens

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just an Idea

Randy

Ernest Burden

"I ain't gonna work on Mottle's farm no more"

apologies to Bob Dylan


Ah, but their marketshare was undercut by some upstart called "Chamberpot Studios".

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Ernest Burden III
AcmeDigital
architectural rendering

Saturn

I wonder how much Intel will charge for that. Lets see...4 cores = about $1500 so 80 cores should be about $30,000.

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Jason Matthews

Brian Cassil

I remember reading an article in Wired a couple years ago about quantum computing (almost all of it went over my head) and at that time it all seemed really theoretical. It sounded like the kind of thing that was 30 years or more away. Maybe I'm wrong?

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"writing notes is quieter."

Ernest Burden

It's been demonstrated, though only processing a single datum, or possibly a few. But apparently it works. Putting those lazy electrons to work for us, processing photon distributions. That's seems rather appropriate, doesn't it?

The weird thing about quantum is that you get the answer before you ask the question. So you have to be careful about when you take your coffee breaks, you might cause a space-time disturbance and pretty soon we're all French.

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Ernest Burden III
AcmeDigital
architectural rendering

BrianKitts

hmmm.... does that mean we american's would have to hate ourselves then?

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Brian Kitts
ANSHEN + ALLEN

Ernest Burden

No. Nationality would no longer have any meaning, and the food would be great.

Perhaps I should keep my imagination in check.

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Ernest Burden III
AcmeDigital
architectural rendering

BrianKitts

(back on topic) they covered this in diggnation's podcast a few weeks ago. It was quite humorous to hear them joking about the size of the thing. Basically they were cracking that in a few years we'll all have tiny little laptops.... but to use it you would have to wear a giant power supply/heat sink in a backpack to run it.


http://revision3.com/diggnation

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Brian Kitts
ANSHEN + ALLEN