20 Feb
2012
20 Feb
'12
4:21 p.m.
Hi
I doubt they'd be doing much different today if it
was the old company. It is all about calculations
per watt per unit volume.
It is no longer about the fastest processor design.
That is for gamers with cooling systems designed
to cool houses but used to a single graphics processor.
What Cray did then was push the current technology
to the limit. The limits have since been redefined.
Dwight
From: cclist at sydex.com
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 22:47:19 -0800
Subject: Re: CPU monoculture
On 19 Feb 2012 at 21:45, David Griffith wrote:
This reminds me of the depressing trend of a
mostly-converged CPU
monoculture. Just about everything is x86/amd64 with the exception of
tablets and phones which often use ARM. What became of MIPS?
Interestingly, the R4000 architecture is pretty much quoted verbatim
in the PIC32 microcontrollers. It is odd to think about a MIPS CPU
that also implements USB OTG,.
Cray ditched its vector, Alpha, and Sparc designs
for
AMD. Who did I miss?
Well, Cray isn't the Cray of Seymour, remember. That's long gone--
"Cray" is only the name for the company formerly known as Tera.
That one would expect the current Cray to carry on the Chippewa Falls
tradition of innovation is unrealistic.
--Chuck