On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 5:31 PM, Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > That's nice, but the question that comes to my mind is: > What happens when a zillion cores are all competing for > high-speed access to that memory?
And what happens if some of those cores are corrupt? Can you initiate a core transfer? Will there be a stalemate? Are there any trained Stalemate Resolution Associates around? What if there's a fire in the Stalemate Resolution Annex? Seriously, though, how would you go about debugging a system so massively parallel? If most of the CPU cores are special-purpose, it's going to require a whole new method of testing. I can just imagine configure scripts having to be taught to cope with a new form of CPU bug (in the same way that some still test for the Pentium division bug). ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
