Kash,
frankly at low frequencies the kryotech stuff makes no sense, but at the 1Ghz range
it seems like a pretty compelling solution and certainly considering the costs and
isses of dual and quad CPU's.
What issues? Multiple CPU systems have been around since the 80's. There is no mystery about them. IBM has SMPs up to 12 way, Sun to 64, Intel to 8 (actually 9,000 way in the Sandia system). You design it, debug it, and ship it (MP), period. Overhead lost due to MP factors, about 25%. Bottom line is that companies stopped trying to get it all out of one CPU only long ago. Sorry, but I'll put the extra money into an extra CPU or two, rather than a chiller, every time. Now, if they do a chilled 8 - way...
Tony |
