The rate of advancement of chips and the duel core has tipped the scale of the cpu MIPS.... What chips hold the record today and what is forecast for 2006?
And what system or systems will be the interface to scaling up/interconnecting for the AI need? Dan Goe ---------------------------------------------------- >From : Ben Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To : agi@v2.listbox.com Subject : Re: [agi] Re: AGI Design? Power of the Cell Broadband Engine] Date : Sun, 27 Nov 2005 15:19:06 -0500 > Hmmm... > > Of course, AGI would benefit greatly from various radical massively > parallel architectures, but history shows that creating such things is > really expensive and for economy-of-scale reasons they tend to get > obsoleted by advanced in more conventional machines, even if they're > in-principle superior in many ways. > > Within the domain of conventional von Neumann computers: AGI requires > a lot of RAM, as rapidly accessible as possible by a lot of > processors. Pretty simple. > > I like Octiga Bay's machines, which are basically a bunch of Opteron > multiprocessor machines hooked together via a special > faster-than-ethernet processor interconnect fabric. But they're > certainly not the ultimate... > > -- Ben > > On Sun, 27 Nov 2005 13:59:41 -600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > If the AGI community could benefit from Cell Broadband maybe they could > > come up with their own design... > > > > What attributes would the AGI community want in their Cell Broadband > > Engine? > > > > Dan Goe > > ------- > To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, > please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
