Re: How to develop a random number generation device

In article <1189967601.928633.242220@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
kensmith@xxxxxxxxx says...
On Sep 15, 11:09 am, John Larkin
<jjlar...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[....]
architecture. In a few years we'll have, say, 1024 processors on a
chip, and something new will be required to manage them. It will be a
thousand times simpler and more reliable than Windows.

I think that the number of virtual cores will grow faster than the
number fo real cores. With extra register banks and a bit of clever
design, a single ALU can look like two slightly slower ones.

Not register banks, just a couple of bits in the rename register
files.

I expect to see multicore machines with less actual floating point
ALUs than actual integer ALUs.

I would think that would be more of a mess than the small amount of
extra hardware for an FPU for each CPU. Asymetries can get messy
fast.

--
Keith
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