The chip itself is becoming a NUMA-like system, with its own internal network, a crossbar switch and its own internal topology. At some time, if the number of cores continues to grow, it wouldn't be that surprising to see some locality emerge, in the form of local clusters of cores, tightly coupled on a bus ring,
Kilian, I agree. I was just being a bit jocular about the complexity of this thing. Yes, it’s a little NUMA system on a chip - which is quite exciting really. Take a four-socket one of these, and a bucketload of RAM, and you have a pretty nice personal system. The contents of this email are confidential and for the exclusive use of the intended recipient. If you receive this email in error you should not copy it, retransmit it, use it or disclose its contents but should return it to the sender immediately and delete your copy. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
