By: David Kanter (dkanter.delete@this.realworldtech.com), November 17, 2010 1:08 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
someone (someone@somewhere.com) on 11/17/10 wrote:
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>David Kanter (dkanter@realworldtech.com) on 11/17/10 wrote:
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>>Of course, Intel might also leave that up to the software...which
>>would be stupid, but also more philosophically consistent with EPIC.
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>>David
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>Hmmmm.
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>Montecito didn't leave management of its extremely coarse
>grained multi-threading up to software so why would Intel
>attempt that with Poulson's very likely much finer grained
>multi-threading?
I hope they wouldn't. In fact, I hope that everyone at Intel has gotten on-board the train of 'dynamic everything' (except your logic, static CMOS is fine!). Dynamic thread management makes a lot of sense.
DK
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>David Kanter (dkanter@realworldtech.com) on 11/17/10 wrote:
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>>Of course, Intel might also leave that up to the software...which
>>would be stupid, but also more philosophically consistent with EPIC.
>>
>>David
>
>Hmmmm.
>
>Montecito didn't leave management of its extremely coarse
>grained multi-threading up to software so why would Intel
>attempt that with Poulson's very likely much finer grained
>multi-threading?
I hope they wouldn't. In fact, I hope that everyone at Intel has gotten on-board the train of 'dynamic everything' (except your logic, static CMOS is fine!). Dynamic thread management makes a lot of sense.
DK