I agree that parallelism, or more accurately multiprocessing, has contributed a great deal to the advancement of 8086 technology. So to has speed: The first 8086 was clocked at 5Mhz.; now the speed is 6Ghz. The shrinkage of computer components in ULSIC technology has made this possible. But today I believe we're nearing an end to 8086 CISC technology because its science and technology will only take it so far.
Murray. 🙂 On Sun, Jun 9, 2024 at 9:00 PM Tom Hunter via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote: > Highly parallel workloads are an important niche in computing. > > On Mon, 10 June 2024, 8:48 am Scott Baker via cctalk, < > [email protected]> > wrote: > > > I think the biggest change is our compute resources stopped going faster > > in terms of raw cycles per second, and started going wider in terms of > > parallelism. It's now commonplace for me to run workloads that can > actually > > use many CPU cores, and I'm starting to occasionally run workloads that > are > > so parallel, that a GPU is a more suitable resource. At the same time as > > the surge in parallelism, there's also a focus on going greener. I think > > the last couple years have been particularly transformative. > > > > Scott > > > > > > >
