anon (anon@anon.com) on 1/4/11 wrote:
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>Michael S (already5chosen@yahoo.com) on 1/3/11 wrote:
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>>Carlie Coats (coats@baronams.com) on 1/3/11 wrote:
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>>>Eric Bron (eric.bron@zvisuelREMOVE.com) on 1/3/11 wrote:
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>>>... my understanding is that until Windows
>>>>7 SP1 RTM is out, nobody want to promote AVX
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>>>I do !! -- Carlie
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>>You say, you're going to run your weather forecaster on quad-core desktop CPU?
>>Does the program contain so little TLP that it can not take advantage of dual-socket 12-core Westmere?
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>I'd guess the case is more likely that he wants to see the numbers and debug and
>optimize his codes well before customers start to deploy them. And likely it uses
>MPI on clusters as well, so if AVX offered a really big speedup they might be compelled
>to look at less usual configurations (although it seems they still don't do ECC
>in consumer grade devices -- dammit Intel!)

In fact, Carlie ranted here against MPI not so long ago:
http://www.realworldtech.com/forums/index.cfm?action=detail&id=110517&threadid=110430&roomid=2