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]]> by: bruno.santos http://www.linux-mag.com/id/6777/#comment-1441 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 08:37:27 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/6777/#comment-1441 Sooo, the more powerful cores we have, the better performance we get at "crunching numbers", but the communications system might not keep up with the processing units, AND we require serious cooling systems. But, if we trade 10 state-of-the-fastest-art cores for some 100 Atom like cores, will get a low heat expenditure, and the communications system might get at the same level... although it has 10 times more data to get around to the cores. Which means that these new "ant colony" like clusters are going to need some serious work done, software and hardware wise! Ah, the future... I can see it now... dandelion like wireless processing units: small, light as a dandelion and heat up as much as a firefly! Sooo, the more powerful cores we have, the better performance we get at “crunching numbers”, but the communications system might not keep up with the processing units, AND we require serious cooling systems.

But, if we trade 10 state-of-the-fastest-art cores for some 100 Atom like cores, will get a low heat expenditure, and the communications system might get at the same level… although it has 10 times more data to get around to the cores. Which means that these new “ant colony” like clusters are going to need some serious work done, software and hardware wise!

Ah, the future… I can see it now… dandelion like wireless processing units: small, light as a dandelion and heat up as much as a firefly!

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