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Project Cell and personal computers

Name: DrLang 2005-01-02 3:30

So there is little disclosed at this point into the inner workings of the joint processor development project between IBM, Toshiba, and Sony. There are only general ideas of how it will work in articles like this one http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-948493.html
For more we have to wait for the IEEE International Semiconductor Conference

But here's for discussion. What do you think about the likely hood of the home personal computer industry jumping on the multiprocessor bandwagon?

Name: les aptt 2005-01-02 4:03

In the strictest sense, multiprocessors have been in the home at least since the G4.
This is moving to massively parallel.  This is not my area but I recall that the two are very different.

Name: Anonymous 2005-01-02 4:14

This is true. But I'm refering specificaly to this massive parallel design. Especialy considering that it's my inderstanding that most programs arnt taking full advantage of multiprocessors as it is.

Name: Anonymous 2005-01-02 5:03

Most current programs can't take advantage of a massively-parallel system. Nor can our programming tools or paradigms. Either we'd need some amazing compilers that can find parallelism, or coders would need to switch to unusual languages (a lot of them functional). Furthermore, a great many problems simply don't parallelize well.

Certain interesting things become possible when dealing with massive parallelism though.

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