it only gets better

vizwhiz · August 4th, 2008

upgrade = downtime

but The longer you wait The faster it will run

read This

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...?hpid=sec-tech

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First intended for graphics-intensive applications, such as games and other visually intensive programs, company officials said the multi-core approach could become the model for common desktop computers. Engineers expect it to be capable of processing about a trillion instructions a second.

The first product based on Larrabee is expected in 2009 or 2010, and Intel officials anticipate that not long after 2010, there will be laptops running on chips with more than 10 cores.

The drawback of the new approach is that it requires an equally dramatic shift in the software industry. Some experts, such as Microsoft founder Bill Gates, initially expressed reservations because of the disruptive nature of the transition.

To take advantage of a chip with many processors, software has to be broken into chunks of instructions that can run in parallel on multiple processors. So, a computer program that now consists of one set of sequential instructions would have to be parceled into two, four or more than 10 sets of instructions, depending on the number of cores, that can be run in parallel.

Once chips with 10 cores reach consumer desktops, however, the entire corpus of the world's software may have to be rewritten to take advantage of the extra power.

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baker1444 · August 4th, 2008

Good read thanks for sharing.

BrianKitts · August 4th, 2008

Top notch reporting there. I was shocked to check the date on the article and see that it really wasn't four years old!!

Perhaps it would have made more sense as a ten core announcement but the majority of the article was about this crazy new "many-core" thingy :d

BEAM · August 5th, 2008

my favorite quote:

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"If we kept going as we had been, the heat density on a chip would have equaled the surface of the sun."

guess one would need an extra fan or two.

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baker1444 Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Newfoundland, Canada Posts: 205 Name: Robert Baker	Re: it only gets better Good read thanks for sharing. __________________ "Its so easy to be critical"

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BrianKitts Veteran Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Columbus, Ohio Age: 28 Posts: 1,542 Name: Brian Kitts	Re: it only gets better Top notch reporting there. I was shocked to check the date on the article and see that it really wasn't four years old!! Perhaps it would have made more sense as a ten core announcement but the majority of the article was about this crazy new "many-core" thingy :d __________________ Brian Kitts ANSHEN + ALLEN Last edited by BrianKitts; August 4th, 2008 at 06:12 PM.

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