Shame we'll have to wait for Snow to get a multi-core aware kernel. If you've got MenuMeters installed, it's quite appalling watching a CPU hog application being hopped all over coretown.
It has nothing to do with current limitations or software so why compare it to current limitations? It has NOTHING to do with it. It has to do with setting up OS X to be ready for future "potential" code and technologies. Leopard has a maximum theoretical limit as well as road blocks preventing faster processing. Snow Leopard will have a much higher limit and be much faster. That's all they are saying. Will that make any difference now or in the near future? No. It's a "let's pause, clean up this code and get this think ready for the next big thing. We are looking at 10, 20, 30, 40 ,50 years down the road." Get it?
I get it, but you don't seem to.
Snow Leopard does NOT have a much higher limit for ram. It has a limit four times higher than 10.5.
Of course they are looking at being ready for years or decades down the road. But since Leopard already supports 4 terabytes of ram, they are ALREADY ready for years down the road.
The 10.6 theoretical limit is 500 times today's practical limit. But the 10.5 theoretical limit is already 125 times today's practical limit. They're making it sound like 10.6 is a 500x improvement over 10.5 when it's really a 4x improvement. In other words, they're making it sound like a huge theoretical ram limit is something new in 10.6, but we already have it in 10.5.
Well on my overclocked PC I have two 8500GT 256mb SLI'ed. Great for games. Would be even better, for CUDA/ OpenCL stuff .. If I had that easily on my PC... Do not underestimate teh nVidia! Just a 8600GT 265MB whips ass.
But yeah... now how we get nVidia in Xserve ????? Maybe 8600 M GTs built in??? Eh?? Nah but I think for serious performance CPU+GPU+RAM on Snow Leopard *Server*, Mac Pro's the only way to fly...
They're making it sound like 10.6 is a 500x improvement over 10.5 when it's really a 4x improvement. In other words, they're making it sound like a huge theoretical ram limit is something new in 10.6, but we already have it in 10.5.
After the lawyers, we should get rid of marketers.
I remember way back when Virginia Tech assembled their G5 cluster was that they were intending to tap the GPU to do some of the work. I don't know if they actually managed to do it, but an Apple-supported framework would make it much easier to develop such an app.
I think also nVidia's plans involve a all-round GPU that will handle CPU-like tasks, GPU tasks, and also Physics tasks. Juicy, tantalising stuff going into the next several years.
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Shame we'll have to wait for Snow to get a multi-core aware kernel. If you've got MenuMeters installed, it's quite appalling watching a CPU hog application being hopped all over coretown.
Hey, it evens out the heat.
It has nothing to do with current limitations or software so why compare it to current limitations? It has NOTHING to do with it. It has to do with setting up OS X to be ready for future "potential" code and technologies. Leopard has a maximum theoretical limit as well as road blocks preventing faster processing. Snow Leopard will have a much higher limit and be much faster. That's all they are saying. Will that make any difference now or in the near future? No. It's a "let's pause, clean up this code and get this think ready for the next big thing. We are looking at 10, 20, 30, 40 ,50 years down the road." Get it?
I get it, but you don't seem to.
Snow Leopard does NOT have a much higher limit for ram. It has a limit four times higher than 10.5.
Of course they are looking at being ready for years or decades down the road. But since Leopard already supports 4 terabytes of ram, they are ALREADY ready for years down the road.
The 10.6 theoretical limit is 500 times today's practical limit. But the 10.5 theoretical limit is already 125 times today's practical limit. They're making it sound like 10.6 is a 500x improvement over 10.5 when it's really a 4x improvement. In other words, they're making it sound like a huge theoretical ram limit is something new in 10.6, but we already have it in 10.5.
Wahoo, Xserves with 8800GTS cards pre-installed
Well on my overclocked PC I have two 8500GT 256mb SLI'ed. Great for games. Would be even better, for CUDA/ OpenCL stuff
But yeah... now how we get nVidia in Xserve ????? Maybe 8600 M GTs built in??? Eh?? Nah but I think for serious performance CPU+GPU+RAM on Snow Leopard *Server*, Mac Pro's the only way to fly...
They're making it sound like 10.6 is a 500x improvement over 10.5 when it's really a 4x improvement. In other words, they're making it sound like a huge theoretical ram limit is something new in 10.6, but we already have it in 10.5.
After the lawyers, we should get rid of marketers.
After the lawyers, we should get rid of marketers.
I hate my accountants the most.
I remember way back when Virginia Tech assembled their G5 cluster was that they were intending to tap the GPU to do some of the work. I don't know if they actually managed to do it, but an Apple-supported framework would make it much easier to develop such an app.
I think also nVidia's plans involve a all-round GPU that will handle CPU-like tasks, GPU tasks, and also Physics tasks. Juicy, tantalising stuff going into the next several years.
After the lawyers, we should get rid of marketers.
I say we go after the righteously intolerant first, regardless of profession.
I say we go after the righteously intolerant first, regardless of profession.
Based on my posts I guess I should start planning for my trip across the river Styx.
I say we go after the righteously intolerant first, regardless of profession.
That wouldn't include Jobs, would it?