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On 11/5/2011 2:13 AM, nmm1@cam.ac.uk wrote:
> In article<0d9d7af7-ffe4-41f1-82a4-ed0a85531885@h5g2000vbf.googlegroups.com>,
> Paul A. Clayton<paaronclayton@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On Nov 4, 12:06=A0pm, MitchAlsup<MitchAl...@aol.com>  wrote:
>>
> Bluntly, I think that continuing with the current 'plan' of using
> hardware to cover up the defects of software design has reached the
> end of the road.  And, if you are going to tackle the software
> misdesign problem, why not abandon the extremely problematic
> large-scale cache-coherent memory consistency model?  After all,
> GPUs have :-)

Although AMD/ATI and ARM (with its Mali Midgard) have indicated a trend 
the other way.