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Rumor has it that Haswell-EP is going to bring 16 core, 32 threads CPUs (up from the current 10 core, 20 thread chips), allowing for 128 threads on a 4 socket s
by reitzensteinm 14y ago
Rumor has it that Haswell-EP is going to bring 16 core, 32 threads CPUs (up from the current 10 core, 20 thread chips), allowing for 128 threads on a 4 socket systems.
Which is to say, we're actually not that far way from the title of this site becoming quaint, like Teradata does today - assuming Moore's law holds for a while.
Interestingly, and not coincidentally, Haswell is also the
first chip that will support hardware transactional memory, which should speed efforts like PyPy's STM, which enables you to write code without manually locking anything.
http://morepypy.blogspot.co.nz/2012/06/stm-with-threads.html http://morepypy.blogspot.co.nz/2012/06/stm-with-threads.html
Great submission though - bookmarked!
- jwbaker 14y agoThese docs can retain their usefulness even when their titles are long since obsolete. "The C10K Problem" comes to mind.
- 4ad 14y agoPlease note that you could already have had 512 threads per 4 socket server since two years ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARC_T3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARC_T3
- dmpk2k 14y agoConsidering the problems that Sun ran into with Rock, and the opinion that Cliff Click has for Azul's own HTM implementation, I wouldn't get excited yet.
- eternalban 14y ago>Considering ... Azul ... I would like to consider: what did he say and when/where?
- bmm6o 14y agoThere's this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=526144 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=526144