I mean think about it, at the moment why have the Quad's like the Core 2 Quad and the I7's but what comes after that? I do know that there is a 8 Core CPU under the name of Xeon. So where does it end? 24 Cores or maybe in 20 years time it could be 50 Cores?
Eight-core processors exist, and if I have heard correctly, so do 16- and 32-core processors. The companies just don't want to release them yet. If you think about it, it makes a lot of business sense. They release a slightly better processor, make all the money they can off of it, and then release another one that is slightly better. The alternative would be releasing the newest processor technology available, only gaining them one level of revenue at a time.
(08-30-2009 12:29 PM)RWenger Wrote: [ -> ]Eight-core processors exist, and if I have heard correctly, so do 16- and 32-core processors. The companies just don't want to release them yet. If you think about it, it makes a lot of business sense. They release a slightly better processor, make all the money they can off of it, and then release another one that is slightly better. The alternative would be releasing the newest processor technology available, only gaining them one level of revenue at a time.
makes sense, after all you have to make money where you can, and try not to lose any.
Exactly. My dream job would be to work as an electrical engineer with the newest technology out there. I would be willing to bet that our government here in the USA has super-computers with processors even more powerful than that, using 128-bit processors and 32 cores. That might be a slight stretch, but I would think it's in the ballpark.
You know with all that computing power one would think that all the answers to every thing would have been achieved by now.
Wouldn't it be probable that we (meaning the governments) know quite a lot more than we (meaning the public) is aware of? Of course with new discoveries come new questions though.
We probably wouldn't want to know what they know and probably wouldn't know what to do if we did.
Personally, I would love to know, even if I didn't have the opportunity to work with the technology and develop applications for it.
We would probably find out how limited there control over new technology really is and it would give us all nightmares if it didn't kill us first. Seems like I saw something like that on the discovery channel about run away technology killing every one and every thing.
Well that's the typical fear, but we just need to completely understand the technology and know how to put safeguards in place to prevent any kind of disasters before we try to implement anything.
That's pretty good.
But let's go back to discussing CPU's in this thread. Maybe you could start a new thread for that link.
But think about it, what kind of programmes will really need a 50 core @ 4.00Ghz? And how far can games really go?
Well, if you're crunching a lot of numbers it could come in handy. Take SETI for example, they need as much processing power as they can get.
(08-30-2009 11:41 PM)RWenger Wrote: [ -> ]That's pretty good. But let's go back to discussing CPU's in this thread. Maybe you could start a new thread for that link.
Sorry , I was starting to stray off topic, but it was related to where we were going with it at the moment.
(08-31-2009 05:04 PM)RWenger Wrote: [ -> ]Well, if you're crunching a lot of numbers it could come in handy. Take SETI for example, they need as much processing power as they can get.
Did you ever open an account with Seti?
(08-31-2009 07:39 PM)zombiewolve Wrote: [ -> ]Sorry , I was starting to stray off topic, but it was related to where we were going with it at the moment.
Yes, it was. No problem.
zombiewolve Wrote:Did you ever open an account with Seti?
No, I never did... I had dialup with no real room for any extra information transfer, and now I have satellite with a low bandwidth cap. I would if I had cable though.
(08-31-2009 07:54 PM)RWenger Wrote: [ -> ] (08-31-2009 07:39 PM)zombiewolve Wrote: [ -> ]Sorry , I was starting to stray off topic, but it was related to where we were going with it at the moment.
Yes, it was. No problem.
zombiewolve Wrote:Did you ever open an account with Seti?
No, I never did... I had dialup with no real room for any extra information transfer, and now I have satellite with a low bandwidth cap. I would if I had cable though.
Hope one day you can get were you can do that, I think you will enjoy it.
Dial-Up is really bad, thank god I dont have it anymore lol
I'm sure there is a lot of technology, and scientific discoveries that we will never know about. The stealth bomber was developed in the 1970's, and it was top secret until the late 1990's... So, makes you wonder what types of "top secret" aircrafts are being developed in nearly 2010.
Quote:But think about it, what kind of programmes will really need a 50 core @ 4.00Ghz? And how far can games really go?
Trust me there are some physics simulations that require months to process even on the fastest computers available. I guess the furthest gaming could go is full virtual reality. Just like The Matrix movie.
What I find funny about this whole multi-core phase is I'm thinking we will eventually go back to a single core design when new technology is developed. Obviously this is where nano-technology is going to make the difference. Not so say current processor chips are not impressive! It's amazing how many integrated circuits, transistors, resistors, etc, go into the making of a CPU on the nearly microscopic level.
What you said about those planes scares me, if that's true then I truly wonder what planes they have now. About the Physics simulations, then I agree I do know of such programmes and it seems insane on how labour intensive these programes are and as for Virtual Reality (Amazing). That would take some hell of a processor.
As for technology reverting back to it's single core way? I couldn't agree to that, Dual,Quad Etc. have to many benifits over a single and for things that require multiple tasks every second like Virtual Reality, then 1,000 10 Core CPU's would be better that 1,000 Single's