Bruno Coutinho wrote: <snip> > Datamining is useful for both commercial and scientific world and is > very data-intensive, so I think this issue will be addressed, or at least > someone (Sun, for example) will build processors for data intensive > applications that are more balanced, but several times more expensive. </snip>
Here's some current hardware which is superior to the norm in terms of I/O (so the manufacturers would claim). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER6 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrasparc http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium For those with really deep pockets: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEC_SX-9 Q: Do Hitachi and Fujitsu still do vector machines? I guess my point is that the article itself is a little fluffy. This is just the old problem of the kernel size overflowing cache/memory boundaries inconveniently. The answer is always more I/O and tighter integration. -- Geoffrey D. Jacobs _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
