Re: HAL-15 has arrived

From: Eugene Leitl (Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Mon Apr 02 2001 - 09:27:11 MDT


On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Zero Powers wrote:

> A compact new supercomputer could revolutionize the technology industry,
> processing information 1,000 times faster than conventional computers.

These Utah types are trying it again. The Achilles' heel of such
architecture is memory bandwidth. I doubt they have the $$$s to mix FPGA
with embedded DRAM. Plus, their instructions are rather braindead, but if
you happen to use the right kind of benchmark, you can sure generate lots
of meaningless scary numbers. </yawn>



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