RE: Sony/Toshiba/IBM announce new "Super Computer" chip

>Hercules.

Game? I'd be surprised if it would support 10 simultaneous threads. 2-4,
sure, more than that, maybe, but they'd just be causing thrashing on
current hardware.

-Walden 


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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-nontech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-nontech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jay Maynard
Sent: Tuesday, 08 February, 2005 10:00
To: Non-Technical Discussion about the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: Sony/Toshiba/IBM announce new "Super Computer" chip

On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 09:56:20AM -0500, Walden H. Leverich wrote:
> Interesting story, and probably quite useful in the server
environment,
> but I don't know about desktops. How often do we do anything on our
PCs
> that is processor bound _and_ multi-threaded.

<raises hand>
Hercules.
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