[Gllug] Duo Core processor 4Gb Ram laptop

[Anthony Newman]

John Hearns wrote:
> Acktcherly, all is not rosy in the field of multicores.
> Shamefully quoting a Slashdot article:
> 
> http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08%2F12%2F05%2F0051238&from=rss 
> <http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08%2F12%2F05%2F0051238&from=rss>
> 
> 
> /"Engineers at Sandia National Laboratories, in New Mexico, have 
> simulated future high-performance computers containing the 8-core, 
> 16-core, and 32-core microprocessors that chip makers say are the future 
> of the industry. The results are distressing. Because of limited memory 
> bandwidth and memory-management schemes that are poorly suited to 
> supercomputers, the performance of these machines would level off or 
> even decline with more cores.'"
> /

I'm hoping I'm not the only one failing to be surprised at that 
"revelation". We've been temporarily diverted from the business of 
pursuing increasing clock speeds by using multiple cores, because of the 
phenomenal financial investment the clock speed war would be likely to 
require; let's hope that it gets back on track soon. Bring on 22nm :P


Ant
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