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It's really hard. Remember the Itanium and the Cell. You can build it, but they may not come. GPUs, though. Those have turned out to be very successful, they c
by stcredzero 8y ago
It's really hard. Remember the Itanium and the Cell. You can build it, but they may not come.
GPUs, though. Those have turned out to be very successful, they can be parallelized as much as you're willing to pay for, and they're good for some non-graphics tasks.
Not all CPU architectures are equally successful. Likewise, not all highly parallel architectures will be equally successful. If progress in hardware is going to be characterized by more parallelization, things like Erlang Actors are going to become more important.
- jimmy1 8y agoI vaguely remember my computer arch course in college describing how everything we have today essentially suffers from the von neumann bottleneck, that even if we implemented a lambda calculus machine, it would still suffer from this bottleneck. Has this been revisited in academia lately? I am a bit out of touch, but this always interested me.
- stcredzero 8y agoYou can interpret my comment thus: I propose having lots and lots of Von Neumann bottlenecks!
- slater 8y agoYou're very clever, young man, very clever. But it's bottlenecks all the way down!