Chip which could make desktop computers 20 times faster
Scientists unveil chip which could make desktop computers 20 times faster
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...#ixzz19Vi4ZMJt
WHEN??????????
Read more:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...#ixzz19Vi4ZMJt
WHEN??????????
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I meant when will Apple put it into Macs.
It doesn't even exist. It's just a concept. No roadmaps include it, and as they've all been decided, after Rockwell will be the first time it could conceivably exist, and there's no guarantee that something like this WILL supersede Rockwell. And THEN there's no guarantee that Apple would even use it.
It doesn't even exist. It's just a concept. No roadmaps include it, and as they've all been decided, after Rockwell will be the first time it could conceivably exist, and there's no guarantee that something like this WILL supersede Rockwell. And THEN there's no guarantee that Apple would even use it.
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Scientists unveil chip which could make desktop computers 20 times faster
Read more:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...#ixzz19Vi4ZMJt
WHEN??????????
As one of the commenters on the article rightly points out, your graphics chips are capable of computations in this region or faster compared to the CPU. Although they aren't the task-parallel devices CPUs are, it's all about results. Two years ago they were showing how scientific apps were running faster on $6000 PC with 4 GPUs than a $5 million CPU cluster:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...4234179733207#
The performance curve is expected to go the following route:
http://www.vizworld.com/2010/09/nvid...epler-maxwell/
With this year's CPU/GPU chips, I think we will start seeing a lot more GPU speedup where it matters for general purpose computing.
There are applications on the Cell which can consume, process and push about 50GB/sec over the internal crossbar buss. The problem for the Cell (and every other processor) is that is can't get that much data into the processor in a sustained way. But in the kind of apples-to-apples burst comparison the FPGA chip is just meh results. Nobody else has published this kind of fluff because it has already been passed by the Cell and GPGPU. So yeah, because it hasn't been published he can pad his tenure CV, but it really doesn't help the real world.
Current Nvidia GPUs are advertising >240 "cores" ATi advertises fewer, but counts a little differently too. Both already outstrip this guys results, with current production silicon. It will start to get really interesting with the integrated APUs, a lot of the bandwidth problems of CPU to GPU transfer should get ironed out there much like the days of integrating the FPU onto the CPU core instead of leaving it out in the bus-hinterlands as a Geeks specialty toy.
The APU transition will hopefully suddenly uncork the major bus transfer latency hindering stuff like OpenCL and we can get huge throughput gains and finally have the real motivation to wrap our brains around the problems of chunking computations rather then sequencing them.
"IBM says they have made a significant leap forward in the viability of "Racetrack memory," a new technology design which has the potential to exponentially increase computing power. This new tech could give devices the ability to store as much as 100 times more information than they do now, which would be accessed at far greater speeds while utilizing "much less" energy than today's designs. In the future, a single portable device might be able to hold as much memory as today's business-class servers and run on a single battery charge for weeks at a time. Racetrack memory works by storing data as magnetic regions (also called domains), which would be transported along nanowire "racetracks." Instead of forcing a computer to seek out the data it needs, as traditional computing systems do, the information would automatically slide along the racetrack to where it could be used."
I want it! I want it! I want it!
I want it in my 4 times foldable 20" 2mm thick iPad with 16GB of RAM and 16TB of storage!
And I want it NOW, of course!
And how about this: a hundred times faster!
I want it! I want it! I want it!
I want it in my 4 times foldable 20" 2mm thick iPad with 16GB of RAM and 16TB of storage!
And I want it NOW, of course!
Yup that would be a great device for Angry Birds 5.0