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Intel planning on giving us a 2 for 1?
Posted by: J0rdan on: 02/09/2001 03:17 PM [ Print | 6 comment(s) ]
Duke mentioned this one to me this morning. The Register has the inside track with Chipzilla. Apparently Intel will be introducing SMT (Simultaneously multithreading) into their Foster line of processors in the summer. What the hell does that do? It presents two "virtual" processors to software. I need more information:
You can get the full scoopage over here.
UPDATE!: Aaron was kind enough to throw some added information on SMT my way. He's a chatty biatch (;-P) so I can't fit his entire response on the front page. You can however find it right in here.
SMT assumes programs are that little bit smarter - threads are lightweight processes - and can make more efficient balancing decisions. With SMT, shorter pipelines allow workloads to be spread around execution units without the additional overhead. (Yes that's an idiotic oversimplification - but we're nothing if not idiotic and simple, so mail us your more elegant replies and we'll print them.) Intel says the additional overhead to processor logic is maybe 10pc - but power and other efficiencies mean a 2x increase in thermal output over generations can be reduced to something more like 10pc.Are there any engineers in the house? Beuller... Beuller... Beuller...
You can get the full scoopage over here.
UPDATE!: Aaron was kind enough to throw some added information on SMT my way. He's a chatty biatch (;-P) so I can't fit his entire response on the front page. You can however find it right in here.
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duke Posts: 108 Joined: 2000-05-19 |
#7728 Posted on: 02/17/2005 08:58 PM
The Register has posted a review of IBM's Thinkpad T42p. The T42p sports ATI's Mobility Fire GL T2 workstation graphics chip. What sets a workstation chip apart from standard graphics chips is its certification for use with certain high-end graphical design packages. So if you want a notebook to run a CAD package, or a 3D rendering application, you'll want one that has a graphics chip approved by the software vendor. That way, when you run a preview of that complicated scene that you've been working on for days, you know it will work.This really does look like a mobile workstation. You might want to take a look. |
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duke Posts: 108 Joined: 2000-05-19 |
#7729 Posted on: 02/17/2005 09:38 PM
Mozilla's Firefox has reached the 25 Million download plateau! A website by the name of spreadfirefox.com has the story. With a minimal set of tools |
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duke Posts: 108 Joined: 2000-05-19 |
#7730 Posted on: 02/17/2005 10:20 PM
Mozilla's Firefox has reached the 25 Million download plateau! A website by the name of spreadfirefox.com has the story. With a minimal set of tools |
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Jim_ Administrator Posts: 3464 Joined: 2000-03-15 |
#7731 Posted on: 02/17/2005 10:25 PM
The guys over at SFFTech have posted a review of Iwill's ZMAXdp SFF. If I'm not mistaken, Hooz is running one of these units in the secret 2CPU.com underground test bunker. After previewing two "engineering samples" and now reviewing the final shipping product, we can confidently say that the ZMAXdp continues to amaze us. As you |
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duke Administrator Posts: 108 Joined: 2000-05-19 |
#7732 Posted on: 02/17/2005 10:31 PM
Mozilla's Firefox has reached the 25 Million download plateau! A website by the name of spreadfirefox.com has the story. With a minimal set of tools |
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Jim_ Administrator Posts: 3464 Joined: 2000-03-15 |
#7733 Posted on: 02/17/2005 10:33 PM
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