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"For code that is 99.9% parallel then using 1000 processors (each of which is about 250 times slower than the one faster chip they collectively replace) we can
by mattnewport 7y ago
"For code that is 99.9% parallel then using 1000 processors (each of which is about 250 times slower than the one faster chip they collectively replace) we can double the speed, more or less."
Where does that 250x slower come from? That doesn't seem a very reasonable assumption.
- theandrewbailey 7y agoIt's almost as if the author took a conventional quad core CPU and imagined it divided up into 1000 cores instead of 4.
- 00_NOP 7y agoIf you read the paper referenced in the article you will see it comes from the formula used there to define the Pareto frontier of CPU performance.