<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/9/24 Hearns, John <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john.hearns@mclaren.com">john.hearns@mclaren.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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The chip itself is becoming a NUMA-like system, with its own internal<br>
network, a crossbar switch and its own internal topology. At some<br>
time, if the number of cores continues to grow, it wouldn't be that<br>
surprising to see some locality emerge, in the form of local clusters<br>
of cores, tightly coupled on a bus ring,<br>
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</div>Kilian, I agree. I was just being a bit jocular about the complexity of this thing.<br>
Yes, it’s a little NUMA system on a chip - which is quite exciting really.<br>
Take a four-socket one of these, and a bucketload of RAM, and you have a pretty nice<br>
personal system.<br>
<div class="im"><br></div></blockquote><div><br>As the number of cores increase, NUMA multicores will inevitably appear, but I never though that it would happen that soon.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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