Time to think about parallel Smalltalk stuff

Tim Rowledge tim at sumeru.stanford.edu
Sun Jan 16 18:47:48 UTC 2005


Interesting little article a friend pointed out to me:-
http://www.gotw.ca/publications/concurrency-ddj.htm

Given that current high-end cpus like P4 and G5 take many, many amps
(50 - 100) to achieve a 'mere' 2-3GHz and high-end ARM type cpus take
about 50mA for 800MHz, I think there might be some interesting options
for say a hundred ARMs working together. Event if one only achieves 20%
effectiveness you'd get serious compute power for 5A or so. 

tim
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