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Re: Very good news from AMD

From Jason Riedy <jason@lovesgoodfood.com>
Newsgroups comp.arch
Subject Re: Very good news from AMD
Organization Just me.
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Date 2011-07-10 14:25 -0400
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And MitchAlsup writes:
> Thus, a single thread could get about 1/8th of the machine
> performance.

Actually, only one instruction is allowed in the 40-deep pipe at
a time.  So it's 1/40th of 500MHz (XMT, 220MHz MTA2, etc.)...
This machine makes Amdahl giggle, but it can keep all its TiBs of
memory busy.
-- 
Jason

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Re: Very good news from AMD MitchAlsup <MitchAlsup@aol.com> - 2011-07-10 11:11 -0700
  Re: Very good news from AMD Jason Riedy <jason@lovesgoodfood.com> - 2011-07-10 14:25 -0400
    Re: Very good news from AMD "Andy \"Krazy\" Glew" <andy@SPAM.comp-arch.net> - 2011-07-10 12:25 -0700
    Re: Very good news from AMD Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2011-07-10 15:29 -0700
      Re: Very good news from AMD Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2011-07-10 15:32 -0700
      Re: Very good news from AMD Jason Riedy <jason@lovesgoodfood.com> - 2011-07-11 08:37 -0400

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