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Subject: Re: Forget Itanium 2, Madison is coming

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 17:42:31 09/10/02

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On September 10, 2002 at 18:18:22, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On September 10, 2002 at 14:51:33, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
>>On September 10, 2002 at 13:46:59, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On September 10, 2002 at 11:10:03, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>>
>>>>On September 10, 2002 at 04:57:20, Vincent Lejeune wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>a new episode in the never ending race :
>>>>>
>>>>>"NEC will show a Madison system with 32 processors"...
>>>>>http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-956973.html
>>>>>
>>>>>http://zdnet.com.com/2251-1110-957096.html
>>>>
>>>>that's too bad, because McKinley goes till 10000 processors :)
>>>
>>>
>>>In a very tough-to-use NUMA configuration..
>>
>>If the alternative is a 10000 processor NUMA or a 32 processor
>>shared bus shared memory thing, i'll go for the NUMA nowadays :)
>
>
>you better rewrite like mad.  With 10,000 processors some of that memory is
>going to be a lifetime away from a particular cpu...

the reward for that is a program that operates at 10 Teraherz and
at very fast I2 processors. It's GREAT processors. A new generation
simply which perhaps around summer 2003 will be in the big supercomputers
too. I see they start shipping them around start of 2003 that I2.






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