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- vuke69, on 10/12/2007, -0/+34"I think it's 80 cores each with 4GHz making 320GHz. Title is misleading?"
Ummmm NO
80 Cores 4GHz each = 4GHz
Title is 100% correct. - rudy23, on 10/12/2007, -2/+35same speed. windows uses up the remaining 79 cores to clean malware
- Zippo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+30Think it of like monkeys on typewriters... each monkey is a core. All the monkeys have the speed and ability... let's say... hmm, 5 pages per minute. I dunno, I'm just making this up as I go. You can have 80 of these busy monkeys and the speed of production is still 5ppm per monkey. However, since you have 80 monkeys instead of 1, 2, or 4, you're getting things done much faster and more efficiently.
The end result is 400 pages per minute, but technically, the average speed is still just 5ppm. Not every task a computer is given requires multiple cores, so the speed of just one monkey to type is not 400ppm... As you need more monkeys, other monkeys take up the task and divvy up the workload, each pumping out 5ppm.
In conclusion, the way we measure computing speed is kinda odd, monkeys like typewriters, and I suck at similes. - b0wl0fud0n, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20@garreh
You can't add the speed of all the cores together. The speed of the processor is a reference to clock rate. Just because you're adding more cores doesn't mean the chip is going any faster, it's just performing more instructions per second.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock_rate - josegutz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19That's hardCORE!
- ksponge, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19Dude, the fanboy here is you Randazzo. Are you blind? You said you are happy amd is losing to intel right now. You are obviously biased towards Intel for whatever your reasons may be. Yet you call avisgoth a fanboy for his unbiased comment? ***** moron man. Too many of you around too.
- scabbers, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Finally, you'll be able to turn up Flash games to 'high quality'.
- avisgoth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Well, you've convinced me. Hard to argue with your logic.
- dafragsta, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Obviously, because that was an analogy. ;)
- Vigile, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Um, what do you mean exactly?
- OneZeroZeroOne, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12"They" do. And by "they" I mean researchers in pretty much every complex scientific field, such as particle physics, cosmology, biochem, genetics, etc.
- Vigile, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14I wonder how Beowolf clusters would perfom with these?
....? :) - avisgoth, on 10/12/2007, -5/+16I, for one, do not welcome back a time when Intel is the only game in town. Competition breeds innovation.
- solemnraven, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10.....>>sigh
- Tippis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11I wonder how fast Solitaire runs on that thing...
- Zippo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11You still paid $200 for antivirus and antispyware software... which is a lot more than a Linux or Mac user has coughed up.
Joke's on you, buddy. - vuke69, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Please, please, no fanboy math. You only end up making yourself look stupid. I'm sure you were kidding, but there are people that say crap like that seriously, THOSE are the ones I am talking to.
- ajchavar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10i get it!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Wow that wasn't a blatant fanboy comment.
- Vigile, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Agreed, competition is good. But this technology came from that competition!! :)
- gerrylazlo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9That looks fast.
- Murdats, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9now i get it
- benitojuarez, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9i dont =(
- avisgoth, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11@ Randazzo
Actually, I go with who's best. Mid-late 90's Intel was king, and if you wanted to do any power computing, you used their procs (Pentium-S). I hated AMD, as they were putting out sub-par products. Then they came around and started making chips that didn't suck my balls (Athlon), so I started to use them for a few years, until now. Now Intel is once again king, and I'll be buying a Core 2 Duo for my next system.
No fanboy here, just give me a great proc at a good price. And now I am re-evaluating my earlier comment. I like this development, because it will push AMD to respond, which will mean Intel will have to keep driving themselves, and bam! Innovation across the board. - Randazzo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Why are so many of you actually angry that Intel is doing well? It was cool to love the competition back when Intel sucked but now that Intel is doing great on many fronts you guys are even more pissed. Amazing.
- drmangrum, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Randazzo.
Where did he say anything about AMD? Once upon a time Intel was the only viable chip manufacturer. Back in the X86 days, we were lucky to have an upgrade maybe once every 3 years. MAYBE. When AMD came around, they started to make more reliable, faster, and cheaper CPU's. They caught Intel with their pants down, and as a result competition and innovation have never been higher. Intel has made some smart decisions and putting pressure on AMD. This only forces AMD to put on their game face and push back. This is good for all consumers.
This isn't AMD vs Intel fanboism. It's about keeping the market from becoming a stagnant monopoly again. - TopBanana, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7If we're gonig to explot these massively parallel processors fully, we need to evolve radically our current programming paradigms and compilers. Languages will need to move towards 'set' operations instead of serial processes, allowing the compiler to handle a lot of the threading complexity for us.
- NanoStuff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7"but that's just me"
That's one thing you're right about :) - rudy23, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9finally digg comments will load without me having to go for a cigarette break.
- gatekillr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I just can't wait until someone decides to cool it with liquid nitrogen and overclock it :D
- yuravian, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I see what you did there.
- 2wicky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I'm not sure if Intel is "doing well", but they sure are getting a lot of positive press and exposure on their latest round of products. Intel has always marketed well, but this time their Core architecture and derivative products actually don't suck. :)
- Zippo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Oooh, I see what you did there... Tricksy.
- vuke69, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4By the way, this is VLIW(like the Itanium) not x86, so you wont be running Windows XP/Vista on this thing any time soon. Linux, *BSD, HPUX, Irix, and I think there was an Itanium edition of Windows 2003 Datacenter Server, only at this time, and even then they will probably need some serious work to get running.
Lets put it this way, this chip will never see the inside of your box, unless you work at Sandia or the like. - Necho, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Nice, maybe with that we can finally get higher than a couple fps on that 3dmark06 Red Valley test
- mavandeh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5The government will be using that pretty soon.
- systmcrash, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6I think the main reason anyone is upset over intel doing well is quite simple really.
Back when AMD was doing good intel was charging an arm and a leg for there processor's even though they werent the best out there.
Can you imagine what the prices are gonna be like now that there processor's are better then AMD's. - lucid270, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Current technology cannot keep massively parallel cores/designs like this fed. The memory bandwidth requirments alone are gigantic. See Niagra for example, >90% of the design effort alone went into designing the memory system and 8 cores inorder to sustain the necessary bandwidth.
Without greater coverage of the proposed programming model and how the interconnection networks work under standard workloads, this is nothing other than a "hey, we can fabricate this!" announcement. - vuke69, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Obviously you didn't get the memo.
- stevius, on 10/12/2007, -6/+10no... it's clocked @ 4 GHz
- vuke69, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Master Control puts you in his good graces.
- JAVandiver, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Idoru anyone?
- SpacemanSpiff, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I, for one, welcome our new Multivac overlords.
- arjie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2No, it doesn't. Suddenly your username makes more sense, though.
- Vigile, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I had to look up what you were referring to, but now I get it. heh
We're getting there....after all I do have a vacuuming robot already. - Vigile, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Sort of, but it was a crappy Engadget repost of a press release. This article has actual information on it.
- solemnraven, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2OMFG, this intense article this before i've had an entire pot of coffee is making my brain hurt.
that and my hangover.
On a side note....Do you think it will blend? - citrusfizz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4zippo i don't think he was serious =P
- Malarie, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I did not understand one single image. My geekness is not that high i guess. =)
- oddmanout, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6Terascale looks sort of like Testicle when you read it fast
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