Comments on: Multicore madness http://bit-player.org/2007/multicore-madness An amateur's outlook on computation and mathematics. Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:08:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on Multicore madness by: realmode http://bit-player.org/2007/multicore-madness#comment-1517 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 02:54:48 +0000 http://bit-player.org/2007/multicore-madness#comment-1517 I agree with randomwalker. Distributed computing will be a big deal. Multi-core, not so much. I agree with randomwalker. Distributed computing will be a big deal. Multi-core, not so much.

]]> Comment on Multicore madness by: randomwalker http://bit-player.org/2007/multicore-madness#comment-1509 Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:53:08 +0000 http://bit-player.org/2007/multicore-madness#comment-1509 I have only once in recent memory asked a construction worker what he was building. The answer? <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Venetian_%28Las_Vegas%29" rel="nofollow">the world's largest hotel</a>. Maybe all these construction guys are trained to say they're building the world's largest something-or-other :) Your subtitle is definitely hyperbole. But meh, hyperbole makes good copy. We all do it. I don't see multi-core as a big deal myself. Most end-users already have way more CPU cycles than they need. Video playback takes up what, 5% of CPU? The real success story of parallelism is mapreduce and other server-farm techniques, which you mention; and those have nothing to do with multi-core. I have only once in recent memory asked a construction worker what he was building. The answer? the world’s largest hotel. Maybe all these construction guys are trained to say they’re building the world’s largest something-or-other :)

Your subtitle is definitely hyperbole. But meh, hyperbole makes good copy. We all do it.

I don’t see multi-core as a big deal myself. Most end-users already have way more CPU cycles than they need. Video playback takes up what, 5% of CPU?

The real success story of parallelism is mapreduce and other server-farm techniques, which you mention; and those have nothing to do with multi-core.

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