On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 05:57:49PM -0400, Kyle Spaans wrote: > Just so that I'm clear on the wording: > Multicore: Today's dual and quad cores. > Manycore: many, many more cores per die [like Intel's recent prototype] > > If that is true, where does the Cell BE fit? Multi or Many?
The Cell BE isn't an SMP chip, and neither is Intel's prototype. So I'd class it as Many. You don't have to change much to take advantage of Multi. Many is very different. -- g _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
