Re: Minutes from Feb 21 LSE Call

Martin J. Bligh
2003-02-25T03:39:32Z

> I expect to have 16-32 CPUs in my $3000 desktop in 5 years . If you all
> start planning for that now, you might get it debugged before it happens
> to me.;-)

Thank you ... some sanity amongst the crowd

> I don't expect to connect the 16-32 CPUs with ethernet.... but it won't
> surprise me if they have non-uniform memory.

Indeed. Just look at AMD hammer for NUMA effects, and SMT and multiple
chip on die technologies for the way things are going.

M.