29 May
2011
29 May
'11
3:53 p.m.
In article <BANLkTimUUujMnXhvFqqq1S+-wriZDbATDA at mail.gmail.com>,
William Donzelli <wdonzelli at gmail.com> writes:
The architectures aren't substantially different; the component
density and communication latencies/bandwidth are substantially
different.
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With current
multicore CPUs and the SIMD arrays in GPUs, one could
argue that Transputer, ConnectionMachine, etc., were just too early.
Well, yes. A lot of early attempts at *anything* kind of sucked. We
are now 20 odd years past the MPP "boom" of the mid 80s - I certainly
hope technology would have marched on during those years.