[Beowulf] El Reg: AMD reveals potent parallel processing breakthrough

[Lux, Jim (337C)]

On 5/8/13 6:41 PM, "Prentice Bisbal" <prentice.bisbal at rutgers.edu> wrote:

>On 05/08/2013 09:41 AM, Lux, Jim (337C) wrote:
>> The game console business is a strange one, and I don't know that it has
>> much to bring to the HPC world (whoa, that will provoke some comment).
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>Roadrunner's body isn't even cold yet, and everyone's already forgotten
>about it. :(
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Roadrunner
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_microprocessor
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>

I think roadrunner is an example of a one-off stunt..
In the long run, "easy programming" is probably a bigger cost driver.


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