On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 6:59 AM, Steve Richfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Note that modern processors are ~3 orders of magnitude faster than a KA10, > and my 10K architecture would provide another 4 orders of magnitude, for a > net improvement over the KA10 of ~7 orders of magnitude. Perhaps another > order of magnitude would flow from optimizing the architecture to the > application rather than emulating Pentiums or KA10s. That leaves us just one > order of magnitude short, and we can easily make that up by using just 10 of > the 10K architecture processors. In short, we could emulate human-scale > systems in a year or two with adequate funding. By that time, process > improvements would probably allow us to make such systems on single wafers, > at a manufacturing cost of just a few thousand dollars. >
Except that you still wouldn't know what to do with all that. ;-) -- Vladimir Nesov [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=103754539-40ed26 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
