> > It looks like Intel's proposed "software" solution doesn't cut it with
these groups.
> Won't matter. Looks like preliminary load tests on PIII's suggest that
> despite 26% increase in processor speed and 300% increase in price, it's
> only 8% performance increase over PII on anything except 3D graphics in
> the end. If ya wanna do 3D graphics for that price, might as well buy
> SGI or Mac.
Bravo Kathy!
The bottleneck is memory speed. Most of the stuff I run takes just
about as fast on a P133, as a P200. Time people learned that.
> Hopefully PII's will drop drastically in price, and we can all afford to
> buy dual or quad processor systems as a result of PIII being introduced
The latest Cray super-duper-computers, one of which I played with a
week ago, are little more than arrays of processors, and smart software to
parcel out the tasks. (It is something to see the utilization display
"boil up" on an array of 128 processors!)
The next computer revolution will not be in hardware or
applications; but in linking and distributing computation across the
hundreds to thousands of idle to semi-idle desk top computers sitting in
today's corporations.
We are already seeing glimmers of this both in Bell Lab's (Lucent or
whatever they call themselves these days) Plan 9 operating system
descendents, and the Beowulf / Linux Extreme projects.
Just look at the primitive insects, say a dragonfly. Neural
ganglions all over, with not that much in the head. Yet this bunch of
distributed computational gunk outstrips even our greatest supercomputers
in the ability to track and catch nutritional targets.
Then look at our knowledge infrastructure. Information is becoming
distributed and interconnected via the World Wide Web. It already far
outstrips any centralized encyclopedia in depth and breadth on any topic!
So the next logical step, is to distribute computation. Evil hackers
(crackers) are already doing this, setting up many knocked over computers
to crack and break into other computers. Mathematics hobbyists are using
arrays of idle member's computers to find primes, crack DES, and do other
things on a scale beyond anything remotely possible even in the best
funded government labs in 1982.
As we hit the limits of processor/memory speeds, we must borrow a cup
of computation from our neighbor's idle pantry computer.
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