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| From | Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> |
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| Subject | Re: Off-Topic: The Machine |
| Date | Wed, 25 Jun 2014 19:31:20 +1200 |
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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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