[Beowulf] Vector coprocessors

[Joshua Baker-LePain]

On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 at 7:50am, Craig Tierney wrote

> Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:

> What do you mean by 'real' dual core chips?  What features
> do you think are missing on Intel Dual Core?

Sorry -- I should have clarified that.  What I meant was the Pentium D and 
current Xeon dual cores, which just have the 2 separate cores in the same 
package, talking to each other over an external, slow (compared to the 
cores) bus.  To me, that's very obviously a slapped-together "we're 
getting out butts kicked" response to the rather more elegant AMD 
solution.  And it shows, especially in the power consumption numbers.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University