Re: A chip too far? Where is your solution Mr Larkin?

On a sunny day (Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:41:38 GMT) it happened Rich Grise
<rich@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in <pan.2008.08.19.18.40.10.445123@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:07:51 +0000, Jan Panteltje wrote:

A chip too far? Where is your solution Mr Larkin?
http://money.cnn.com/2008/08/13/technology/microchips_copeland.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2008081405

Blowing in the wind, all blowing in the wind.

Faster chips (and the concomitant bloatware) have been making slower
computers since CP/M. ;-)

Cheers!
Rich

In my view, that professor, if he is real, must at one point
be willing to say:
YOU CANNOT ALWAYS CONVERT SEQUENTIAL CODE TO PARALLEL CODE.
But if he is into his research grant, OK, that may take a while.

As a programmer I say:
Find where the sequential program is spending [most of] it's time.
Try to optimise that code area, use hardware if need be,
FPGA is the perfect solution here.
So we have then mother boards with on the fly programmable logic as
part of the programs that run on it.
Maybe the obstacle here is, that for both IBM and Intel, they have cores.
More cores is simple for them, 'If I had a hammer, I would hammer in the
morning, hammer in the evening, all over this land'.
This land is my land ....
Now this land WAS their land.
They have an IP problem, have to team up with Altera, or Xilinx, others, and
combine their forces to write a compiler that finds the time consuming part of
the sequential code, checks the available hardware resources as in FPGA,
and converts that time critical part to gates, unfolding
as many loops as possible.
Use gates (not the person ;-) ) as we now use memory resources.
Now here is a solution that can WORK.
I am no professor, but this can be realized.
HELLO IBM? HELLO INTEL?
Intel is lead by a sales druid, IBM too?
Somebody should try that way.

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