On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 8:12 PM, JD <jd1008@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
."There he goes again">
I did not choose any position. I merely stated a fact and you concocted
from that, that I am taking a position on the issue.
I am an old timer by the average age of this list's subscribers. I was
around when the pdp 8 and pdp 11 were used to teach
assembly language programming.
Quoting you:
"This is the kind of technology that is needed to solve huge mathematical
problems."
Highly questionable. Mostly wrong. Ok?
Bandwidth. Bandwidth. Bandwidth.
And it's a big problem for GPU's which are really, really good at pounding the living daylights out of small datasets, but of marginal usefulness for "huge mathematical problems," except for a small subset of such problems, like linpack. I've argued this over and over again publicly. People who actually control budgets already know what I have to say. The most interesting problems are bandwidth-bound, not compute-bound.
If I could have a Fermi, would I? You bet, because I want to play with one. Do I expect it to open up new ground that in any way reflects naive measures of its computational power? No, I don't.
Robert.
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