From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:26:02 +1100 From: Sam Watkins To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <20091019152602.GA13857@nipl.net> References: <4030fb6ae37f8ca8ae9c43ceefbdf57b@ladd.quanstro.net> <20091016172030.GB3135@nipl.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Subject: Re: [9fans] Barrelfish Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8b29145e-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 12:18:47PM -0600, Latchesar Ionkov wrote: > How do you plan to feed data to these 31 thousand processors so they > can be fully utilized? Have you done the calculations and checked what > memory bandwidth would you need for that? I would use a pipelining + divide-and-conquer approach, with some RAM on chip. Units would be smaller than a 6502, more like an adder. Sam