Yes, true, Von Neumann is dead, long live Von Neuman! ;) The difference is of course that we should not see the whole cluster of cores as a Von Neumann machine

Yes, true, Von Neumann is dead, long live Von Neuman! ;) The difference is of course that we should not see the whole cluster of cores as a Von Neumann machine, the memory bandwidth is just too low to drive multiple cores with some external memory, memory must be as close as possible to the cores themselves. Quote from wtallis lower in this sub-thread : > You can't pretend that memory is all equidistant from the processor cores unless you want everything running equally slow.