Re: multicore gizmos

2007-02-22 Thread Paul Johnson
Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 04:06:08PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: >> Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >> I've always wondered about the possibilities of setting up more than one >> desktop on a single system. And by more than one desktop, I mean full >> KVM, audio, and USB (preferably w

Re: multicore gizmos

2007-02-22 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 04:06:08PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > I've always wondered about the possibilities of setting up more than one > desktop on a single system. And by more than one desktop, I mean full KVM, > audio, and USB (preferably with the ability to tell which

Re: multicore gizmos

2007-02-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 04:06:08PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > > Indeed. In 5 years I'll have the same 4-core desktop but with 3 PCIe > > videocards connected to 3 LCD monitors supporting a 3-seater and I'll > > have discovered a laptop to do the same. Great future. >

Re: multicore gizmos

2007-02-21 Thread Paul Johnson
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Indeed. In 5 years I'll have the same 4-core desktop but with 3 PCIe > videocards connected to 3 LCD monitors supporting a 3-seater and I'll > have discovered a laptop to do the same. Great future. I've always wondered about the possibilities of setting up more than one d

Re: multicore gizmos

2007-02-21 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-02-16 18:51:25, schrieb Roberto C. Sanchez: > Granted, the cooling issues would be interesting. There are special CPU's with 64bit running with 300 MHz and have not more then 35°C... Space-Technologie! Maybe running a 256Bit 256-Core with 256-Threads/Core CPU on 100 MHz. :-) Greetings

Re: multicore gizmos

2007-02-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/17/07 08:43, ?ukasz Andrzejak wrote: >> >>> On 02/16/07 17:16, pinniped wrote: [snip] > You might have been happy with a simple console 10 years ago, Console? You mean "terminal"? [snip] > software anymore. Most people don't - they don't need

Re: multicore gizmos

2007-02-17 Thread Łukasz Andrzejak
> On 02/16/07 17:16, pinniped wrote: >> 'Multicore' processors are pretty new - older machines have always had >> an enormous number of processors. 80 cores on a single chip would take > > With "enormous" always changing. Relative to the number of 2x SMP > systems, very few systems have 8 CPUs,

Re: multicore gizmos

2007-02-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/16/07 17:16, pinniped wrote: 'Multicore' processors are pretty new - older machines have always had an enormous number of processors. 80 cores on a single chip would take With "enormous" always changing. Relative to the n

Re: multicore gizmos

2007-02-16 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/16/07 17:16, pinniped wrote: > > 'Multicore' processors are pretty new - older machines have always had > an enormous number of processors. 80 cores on a single chip would take With "enormous" always changing. Relative to the number of 2x SMP

Re: multicore gizmos

2007-02-16 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 12:16:58AM +0100, pinniped wrote: > > 'Multicore' processors are pretty new - older machines have always had an > enormous number of processors. 80 cores on a single chip would take up most > of the silicon wafer. (and will probably have a few defective cores and > rathe