Spaniards prototype ARM-GPU hybrid supercomputer

theregister.co.uk

19 pointsjacquesm3 comments

It looks delicious, I have been hanging on to my core2quad for nearly 4 years. Can't wait to switch over to an ARM box.

I'm personally holding onto my Core2Duo until a general-purpose processor with 32 cores is available to consumers. It's completely arbitrary, but 32 cores is for me, psychologically, the point where it feels like a crime not to design a program in a concurrent fashion.

Picking such a buy-threshold also has the added benefit of suppressing any desire that I might have to update to the latest and greatest. I look at something and I think: "Well, that's nice, but it's no 32 core processor."

If I could wave my putative magic wand (hazel with ebony trim) I would hope for a small box of these in an arrangement that allowed a flat cable to attach to an existing x86 box. This way I could rehabilitate older (if not wiser) hardware to perform up to new and higher standards.

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