To: QwikSand who wrote (44365 ) 8/4/2001 3:58:00 PM From: Prognosticator Respond to Ok...so the point remains that applications don't really have "inherent" thread-level parallelism in the sense that it happens without the programmer knowing or caring about it, as instruction-level parallelism does in Itanic. To take advantage of thread-level parallelism, an application has to be built that way. That means that, for example, the advantages of USV architecture would indeed extend to a C++ program that was coded using, e.g., pthreads. Java isn't the only language that can take advantage of this architecture, it's just easier to develop concurrent programs in Java. Extrapolating recent performance, it will be remarkable if and when Sun and TI/ whoever get this device built and shipping. How do you get good yield on a single wafer with 1000 complex processor cores on it...put 2,000 cores on it and expect half of them to be bad??? Dat'sa some spicy interconnect! And I don't agree that they have until 2010, because 10 years in the computer business is beyond anyone's predictable event horizon. But if they actually manage to do it in some reasonable timeframe like five years, while Intel follows the risky Itanic route, I agree this USV thing could be a win of proportions that Wall Street analysts certainly don't comprehend (not that they comprehend much of anything).
