On 01/27/2012 10:37 AM, Mark Hahn wrote: >>>> Larrabee indeed resembles itanium to some extend, but not quite. >>> >>> wow, that has to be your most loosely-tethered-to-reality statement >>> yet! >>> it's true that Larrabee and Itanium are very close >>> in the number of letters in their name. >> >> Your personal attack seems to indicate you disagree with my >> qualification of the entire Larrabee line >> having any reality sense in the long run. > > not surprisingly, no: I disagree that Larrabee and Itanium resemble > each other in any but really silly ways. > > Itanium is a custom, VLIW architecture; Larrabee is an on-chip > cluster of non-VLIW, commodity x86_64 cores.
But ... but .... they are both made of Silicon .... doesn't that mean they are the same? /sarc (Sorry, its been a fun week ... and this was just ... too ... irresistible ...) -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Founder and CEO Scalable Informatics Inc. email: land...@scalableinformatics.com web : http://scalableinformatics.com http://scalableinformatics.com/sicluster phone: +1 734 786 8423 x121 fax : +1 866 888 3112 cell : +1 734 612 4615 _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
