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I don't get why it has only 1GB of RAM to go with all those cores. Doesn't that drastically limit the potential applications? It doesn't sound like they have
by chubot 14y ago
I don't get why it has only 1GB of RAM to go with all those cores. Doesn't that drastically limit the potential applications?
It doesn't sound like they have compelling applications in mind -- they're kind of throwing it out there to see what people will do with it. But there are only a few things that needs so much computation and so little memory. Even a lot of scientific computing today is more like "big data" than "big compute".
Also, it seems obvious that you'll want to use more than one together, so some info about network connectivity would be useful.
- UnoriginalGuy 14y agoIt is a compute device. I presume the use would be any scenario where you want a very fast, very concurrent, calculation engine but one that doesn't depend on an extremely large data set. One random example I can think of would be cracking encryption and or hashes (without the use of rainbow tables or similar). Your entire comment essentially seems to be "I don't think a usage scenario exists, because I cannot think of any, so why didn't they make it a 'large data' device instead of a compute device?!" which seems more a limitation on yourself than the device its self.
- chubot 14y agoNo, my comment is: what are some of those applications? If your answer is that it's for running quadratic or exponential algorithms on medium-size data sets, then that explains a lot. The relatively few applications explains why they are using Kickstarter for funding. If it had more applications, then people with deep pockets would be falling over themselves to give them money. There's nothing wrong with this -- the page is just so full of marketing-speak that it's hard to tell.