Brute Force (and) Ignorance
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John W Reames
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On Mar 20, 2010, at 10:56, Craig McCluskey <diese...@pisquared.net>
wrote:
On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:20:53 -0400 John Reames <jwrea...@comcast.net>
wrote:
About the only change has been the amount of cycles available for BFI
(now everyone has massive BFI--no Cray needed!)
BFI? What's that?
I guess you could argue that the SSE/MMX (SIMD) extensions bring a
lot
of vector capabilities of a Cray to a desktop...
It seems a lot of improvement has been made to satisfy the gaming
market.
It works both ways, though. The first computer to break the petaflop
(10^15 floating point operations/second), the Roadrunner here at LANL,
uses enhanced Cell microprocessors, which came from the PlayStation 3.
http://www.lanl.gov/discover/roadrunner_fastest_computer
Craig
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