Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:48:07 02/14/03
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On February 14, 2003 at 06:06:41, Jeremiah Penery wrote: >There was a proposed vector component to the now-defunct Alpha EV8 (21464) >processor. Here is a link to the paper about it: > >http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~mulvihil/EspasaR_Tarantula_final.pdf > >You can see that the power of a true vector architecture is quite amazing when >used properly. It's too bad this processor will never be manufactured. I can >imagine that a properly optimized chess program would be somewhat more than >merely 'fast' on it. Now if we could get Vincent to read something about vector machines and understand them, we wouldn't need these discussions to flare up from time to time... BTW Intel once made a processor that looked a _lot_ like "a cray on a chip", but it has been so long since I used it that I now don't remember if it was the i860 or i960. AT&T used it in a high-powered graphics machine they loaned us for a year or so, 10+ years ago...
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