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Re: Off-Topic: The Machine

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Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> Heh, yes, it's a puff-piece, based on HP's publicity, not an in-depth 
> review. Considering that The Machine isn't publicly available yet, that's 
> hardly surprising.

There's a talk here that goes into a bit more detail,
although still not much:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzbMSR9vA-c

The basic ideas seem to be:

1) An extremely large number of CPU cores, many of them
specialised for particular tasks.

2) A single form of high speed, non-volatile memory, of very
large capacity, replacing cache, RAM, disk, flash, etc.

3) A high-speed optical connection between the CPUs and
the memory.

They claim to be able to retrieve any desired byte out
of a petabyte of storage in 250ns.

That's nice, but the question that comes to my mind is:
What happens when a zillion cores are all competing for
high-speed access to that memory?

-- 
Greg

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Off-Topic: The Machine Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-06-24 01:23 +0000
  Re: Off-Topic: The Machine Johannes Bauer <dfnsonfsduifb@gmx.de> - 2014-06-24 13:06 +0200
    Re: Off-Topic: The Machine Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2014-06-25 05:52 +0000
      Re: Off-Topic: The Machine Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-06-25 16:06 +1000
      Re: Off-Topic: The Machine Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2014-06-25 19:31 +1200
        Re: Off-Topic: The Machine Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-06-25 17:46 +1000

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