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But the practical case for it should grow as long transistor counts increase while the speed of light doesn't.
by adrianratnapala 10y ago
But the practical case for it should grow as long transistor counts increase while the speed of light doesn't.
- wtallis 10y agoAnd NUMA-like architectures on a single CPU die have been increasingly common between Intel's multiple ring busses on larger Xeons and AMD's 4-core clusters on Ryzen. Even per-core L2 caches violate the assumption that a given memory address is equally accessible from any processor core. You can't pretend that memory is all equidistant from the processor cores unless you want everything running equally slow.
- visionscaper 10y agoWe already have practical use cases: training and evaluation of large neural networks.