From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20091016172030.GB3135@nipl.net> References: <4030fb6ae37f8ca8ae9c43ceefbdf57b@ladd.quanstro.net> <20091016172030.GB3135@nipl.net> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:18:47 -0600 Message-ID: From: Latchesar Ionkov To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] Barrelfish Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8881acac-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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? There are reasons Pentium 4 has the performance you mention, but these reasons don't necessary include the "great hulking piece of crap" statement. Thanks, Lucho On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Sam Watkins wrote: > I shouldn't have to explain how powerful something like this could be. = =A031000 > 8-bit 6502 processors running at 1Ghz, fully utilized, could achieve over= 7 > trillion 32-bit integer operations per second. =A0That is over 7000 times= more > powerful than a pentium 4 having the same number of transistors.