bearophile wrote:
Georg Wrede:
The more I think about it, the more I'm starting to believe that the
average desktop or laptop won't see two dozen cores in the immediate
future.
Too much late. My personal computer has already about 100 small cores in the
GPU, and using CUDA (and soon OpenCL) you are even able to use them for almost
general computations...
And then comes Nehalem:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Nehalem_(microarchitecture)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous_multithreading:
The latest MIPS architecture designs include an SMT system known as
"MIPS MT". MIPS MT provides for both heavyweight virtual processing
elements and lighter-weight hardware microthreads. RMI, a
Cupertino-based startup, is the first MIPS vendor to provide a processor
SOC based on 8 cores, each of which runs 4 threads. The threads can be
run in fine-grain mode where a different thread can be executed each
cycle. The threads can also be assigned priorities.
I hope this stuff is for the machine room. :-)
And recession helps...
