[squeak-dev] Prepare for Thousands of Cores --- oh my Chip - it's full of cores!

Igor Stasenko siguctua at gmail.com
Mon Jul 7 21:56:14 UTC 2008


2008/7/7 Todd Blanchard <tblanchard at mac.com>:
> I said 'pthreads', not threads. :-)
>
> There was more at the briefing, but I'm under NDA.
> I like your islands idea, I've had the same kind of thing kicking around in
> the back of my head for some time but I have no time/money to work on it.
>  It seems like the right direction though.
>
>

It is good to see that they finally trying to use GPUs as generic
purpose processing units. But it has own limitations, like inability
to run different code in its 2^n working units. So it is more press
release than real breakthrough :)



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Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.



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