By: Michael S (already5chosen.delete@this.yahoo.com), July 13, 2015 5:19 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
dmcq (dmcq.delete@this.fano.co.uk) on July 13, 2015 5:03 am wrote:
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> The advantage of the Alpha approach is it doesn't encourage people to do stupid things
> thinking they are clever. It is a side benefit that it is easier for the hardware.
No, following your logic, Alpha is 95% as guilty of "encouraging people to do stupid things" as the rest of those, because even Alpha has coherent caches.
More so, machines like Cray XT series are also 70%-guilty, because they have their memory addressable globally and simultaneously.
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> The advantage of the Alpha approach is it doesn't encourage people to do stupid things
> thinking they are clever. It is a side benefit that it is easier for the hardware.
No, following your logic, Alpha is 95% as guilty of "encouraging people to do stupid things" as the rest of those, because even Alpha has coherent caches.
More so, machines like Cray XT series are also 70%-guilty, because they have their memory addressable globally and simultaneously.