On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 5:31 PM, Gregory Ewing
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
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Heh, yes, it's a puff-piece, based on HP's publicity, not an in-depth
review. Considering that The Machine isn't publicly available yet, that's
hardly surprising.
There's a talk here that goes into a bit more detail,
although still not much:
https://www.youtube.com/wat
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Taking it with a generous grain of salt is one thing, but outright
> rejecting it is a bit harsh. I understand that HP has actually
> demonstrated the Machine, so unless they faked the demo, the basic facts
> are probably more-or-less corre
On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 13:06:56 +0200, Johannes Bauer wrote:
> On 24.06.2014 03:23, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> http://www.iflscience.com/technology/new-type-computer-capable-
>> calculating-640tbs-data-one-billionth-second-could
>>
>> Relevance: The Machine uses *eighty times less power* for the same
On 24.06.2014 03:23, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> http://www.iflscience.com/technology/new-type-computer-capable-
> calculating-640tbs-data-one-billionth-second-could
>
> Relevance: The Machine uses *eighty times less power* for the same amount
> of computing power as conventional architectures. If t
Following up on an earlier thread which started as a discussion on
Apple's new language "Swift" and (d)evolved into a discussion about
energy efficiency of computers, I came across this announcement of a new
type of computer architecture invented by HP: "The Machine".
http://www.iflscience.com/
