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Applicability: Top 5...Please
This is a great milestone for chip development. However, what's the "payoff"? What do you do with a chip that has 80-96 processing cores? It challenging now with the possibility of 8 and 16.

I'm not saying that this work is irrelevant or a waste of time. I just want to know what the possibilities are, and please no comments like, "the possibilities are endless." That's just dumb rhetoric. Let's take this seriously, ZDNet-ers.

What are the top 5 (future--within 5-10 years) applications for a massive multi-core processor (MMCP)? Astound us.
Posted by: mitchebk   Posted on: 06/14/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Applicability: Top 5...Please  mitchebk | 06/14/07
Re: Applicability: Top 5...Please  jbravo556 | 06/14/07
You still have not figured it out yet.  bka1959 | 06/14/07
You Don't Seem To Understand The Problem  Charles01 | 06/14/07
Medical  LadyGray | 06/14/07
Not An Applicable Use  Charles01 | 06/14/07
Medical imaging is a better use  CobraA1 | 06/14/07
Number 1  No_Ax_to_Grind | 06/14/07
Although that may require millions or billions of cores  CobraA1 | 06/14/07
Graphics and games  CobraA1 | 06/14/07
Incorrect memory bandwidth not # cores is the limitation  moloned@... | 06/16/07
Which problem?  CobraA1 | 06/17/07
Only one app is really needed  GrimmReaperSound | 06/14/07
Two apps actually...  GrimmReaperSound | 06/14/07
Memory access and interprocessor communication  kdjkdj@... | 06/14/07
How can you have "private" memories connecting to differnt cores on-chip?  michael_t | 06/14/07
Polaris is nowhere close to being able to run x86 code  moloned@... | 06/14/07
And that matters how?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 06/14/07
"Yes, and we're working on it."  Logics | 06/14/07
It is intereting that Intel is appearing to be making  michael_t | 06/14/07
I see your mistake...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 06/14/07
And how many of them actually accomplish...  Logics | 06/14/07
question  CobraA1 | 06/14/07
So Intel play catchup again.  Dazza_z | 06/14/07
Applicability: VMware, SQL Server, Java, ...  Basic Logic | 06/16/07

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