Next Generation CPU Refrigerators
[2008-7-28]
Tag : systems implementation
While multi-core isn't amazingly effective for doing 'massivecalculations' of the variety that scientists usually do (comparedto a supercomputer with thousands of nodes anyway), it is great forgeneral purpose computing. It definitely helps for everyday use -whenever I use a single core computer (even with a highclockspeed), I notice the difference in responsiveness, especiallywhen booting into Windows and all the system tray apps are loading,or running lots of applications at the same time. You have toremember that even if you're just running a single application onyour dekstop, there are plenty of background processes too.
Not that I want to dissuade you from researching into moreefficient processor methodologies, even if it's only for specifictasks - go ahead :) But when you get down to it, most tasks your average computeruser does during the day are neither suitable for parallelisation,nor are they considered highly specialised. I'm just thinking ofweb browsing, chatting, checking email. Modern games do involvelots of operations that 20 years ago would be considered'specialised', like 3D sound, graphics and physics processing, butwe already have specialised processors for all of these things.
While multi-core isn't amazingly effective for doing 'massivecalculations' of the variety that scientists usually do (comparedto a supercomputer with thousands of nodes anyway), it is great forgeneral purpose computing. It definitely helps for everyday use -whenever I use a single core computer (even with a highclockspeed), I notice the difference in responsiveness, especiallywhen booting into Windows and all the system tray apps are loading,or running lots of applications at the same time. You have toremember that even if you're just running a single application onyour dekstop, there are plenty of background processes too.
Not that I want to dissuade you from researching into moreefficient processor methodologies, even if it's only for specifictasks - go ahead :) But when you get down to it, most tasks your average computeruser does during the day are neither suitable for parallelisation,nor are they considered highly specialised. I'm just thinking ofweb browsing, chatting, checking email. Modern games do involvelots of operations that 20 years ago would be considered'specialised', like 3D sound, graphics and physics processing, butwe already have specialised processors for all of these things.
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