Imagine there's a cluster Of 64 G5s Or 128 Opterons Between them only CAT5 Imagine all the boxen Benching Quake FPS... Imagine no shared memory It isn't hard to do Nothing to spinlock or thrash for No cache coherence too Imagine all the boxen Crunching local tasks... Imagine there's no mainframes ...
@thezoq2 why 320 when it's 64 cores?
well it's 128 HW threads.
...wait, why 320 though?
look stuff on the thread pool was waiting for work to finish on other threads, and that got deadlock-y, so we just added another thread pool
...wait, why 320 though?
@avesbury_rosetta oh god, please no!
I don't want to have spent years writing a Verilog replacement just to have software people adopt Verilog