10 Jun
2024
10 Jun
'24
2:45 a.m.
I agree that parallelism, or more accurately multiprocessing, has
contributed a great deal to the advancement of 8086 technology. So to has
speed: The first 8086 was clocked at 5Mhz.; now the speed is 6Ghz. The
shrinkage of computer components in ULSIC technology has made this
possible. But today I believe we're nearing an end to 8086 CISC technology
because its science and technology will only take it so far.
Murray. 🙂
On Sun, Jun 9, 2024 at 9:00 PM Tom Hunter via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
Highly parallel workloads are an important niche in
computing.
On Mon, 10 June 2024, 8:48 am Scott Baker via cctalk, <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
I think the biggest change is our compute
resources stopped going faster
in terms of raw cycles per second, and started going wider in terms of
parallelism. It's now commonplace for me to run workloads that can
actually
use many CPU cores, and I'm starting to
occasionally run workloads that
are
so parallel, that a GPU is a more suitable
resource. At the same time as
the surge in parallelism, there's also a focus on going greener. I think
the last couple years have been particularly transformative.
Scott