tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6977755959349847093.post3423626069848632061..comments2024-03-01T21:53:15.921-08:00Comments on The Pith of Performance: Forget Multicores, Think SpecklesNeil Guntherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11441377418482735926noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6977755959349847093.post-67098114838471777842007-04-18T10:23:00.000-07:002007-04-18T10:23:00.000-07:00My understanding is that it's a consortium of Scot...My understanding is that it's a <A HREF="http://www.specknet.org/" REL="nofollow">consortium</A> of Scottish universities.<BR/><BR/>You might have a point about the difficulty of programming these beasties. However, even if the speckles turned out to be just 1-bit ALUs (like the CM-1), I suspect the emphasis might be on <B>distributed</B> computing (weak parallelism), as opposed to the more conventional notion of (strong) <B>parallel</B> computing.Neil Guntherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11441377418482735926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6977755959349847093.post-91376528861702641592007-04-17T00:33:00.000-07:002007-04-17T00:33:00.000-07:00Who is writing the operating system? Speckle compu...Who is writing the operating system? Speckle computing reminds me of the Connection Machine, for which it was so difficult to write applications that it disappeared.Giordano Berettahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07676490672431958222noreply@blogger.com