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It certainly does seem like chip design is marching grudgingly from Core i7 to Cell BE and eventually to Connection Machine. Physics doesn’t really care about
by corysama 8y ago
It certainly does seem like chip design is marching grudgingly from Core i7 to Cell BE and eventually to Connection Machine. Physics doesn’t really care about ease of programming.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(microprocessor) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(microprocessor)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection_Machine https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection_Machine
- pjmlp 8y agoThe big difference is that Connection Machine enjoyed being developed in programming languages that were better suited to distributed computing, whereas current chip design we still need to drag system developers away from C.
- chris_st 8y agoFor the record, C* on the Connection Machine was a great language to program with.