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Subject: Re: They are coming ... amd is creating them ...

Author: J. Wesley Cleveland

Date: 13:00:27 05/08/02

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On May 08, 2002 at 14:47:09, Bernhard Bauer wrote:

>On May 08, 2002 at 11:23:12, Dan Andersson wrote:
>
>>The clock speed will increase on this CPU. And th IPC also. And the memory
>>access will be outstanding. And there will be a really impressive NUMA
>>architacture. And NUMA is the big brother of SMP. Or rather SMP is the deformed
>>mutated less than viable simile of NUMA. And it will feature full SIMD
>>compatability with theintel extensions. And it will run existing code faster.
>>And, and, and ... In short, it seems to be way superior to anything ever seen
>>before on the x86 scene. It's a beautiful idea of an chip and I am confident
>>that AMD will be able to deliver the silicon. This architecture will severely
>>disadvantage the current Intel chips. Lets hear it for healthy competition.
>>
>>MvH Dan Andersson
>
>I mostly agree. My question is: Will existent SMP code run on a 8 proc opteron 8
>times faster? Or do you need a separate hash table for each proc?
>Up to now I don't know of a NUMA chess program.

The neat thing about the AMD NUMA implementation is that you can treat it as SMP
as the added delays for non-local memory are small compared to DRAM latency.



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