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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:05:19 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Barrelfish
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> Details of the calculation: 7200 seconds * 30fps * 12*16 (50*50 pixel chunks) *
> 500000 elementary arithmetic/logical operations in a pipeline (unrolled).
> 7200*30*12*16*500000 = 20 trillion (20,000,000,000,000) processing units.
> This is only a very rough estimate and does not consider all the issues.

could you do a similar calcuation for the memory
bandwidth required to deliver said instructions to
the processors?

if you add that to the memory bandwith required
to move the data around, what kind of memory architecture
do you propose to move this much data around?

- erik