28 core Xeon E7
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imagine by 2020-2021, we could have these Xeon E7 28 cores at ebay pricesThere is a good reason we are getting hex channel memory
But then we will not care about such small chips!imagine by 2020-2021, we could have these Xeon E7 28 cores at ebay prices
Exactly, and those are the e7 xeons, so more difficult to find the hardware to run them too.
The focus on bandwidth is continuing; improved qpi, avx512, wider memory bandwidth.
During the period of faster clocks it was easier and cheaper to improve processing with more transistors or faster hertz but with a soft ceiling of 5ghz and the atomic size of silicon beginning to be a problem it is nice to see technologists focused on the hard problems for a while.
I suspect that once bucky balls or quantum dots or whichever magical material/process allows the speed/size race to continue that we thing will shift again but in the interim this huge focus on throughput and parallel processing is nice. Back in the real world Amdahl's law tends to constrain most tasks to ghz and transistors so this current trend has to be infrastructure in preperation for faster and more if good old Moore is going to continue to be the measure of success.
During the period of faster clocks it was easier and cheaper to improve processing with more transistors or faster hertz but with a soft ceiling of 5ghz and the atomic size of silicon beginning to be a problem it is nice to see technologists focused on the hard problems for a while.
I suspect that once bucky balls or quantum dots or whichever magical material/process allows the speed/size race to continue that we thing will shift again but in the interim this huge focus on throughput and parallel processing is nice. Back in the real world Amdahl's law tends to constrain most tasks to ghz and transistors so this current trend has to be infrastructure in preperation for faster and more if good old Moore is going to continue to be the measure of success.