kmguru
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(NEWS)
Some of the IT world's top luminaries gathered here at Los Alamos National Laboratory Friday to witness the unveiling of a compact supercomputer that proponents say could provide the model for high-performance computing systems in the years ahead.
more at... http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/industry/05/21/supercomputing.future.idg/index.html
Specifically:
"In contrast to the traditional transistor-laden and hence power-hungry CPUs from AMD and Intel, the Crusoe CPU is fundamentally software-based with a small hardware core," Feng wrote in a white paper about his project, which is available on the Web.
kinda...like our brain with a small hardware core???
Some of the IT world's top luminaries gathered here at Los Alamos National Laboratory Friday to witness the unveiling of a compact supercomputer that proponents say could provide the model for high-performance computing systems in the years ahead.
more at... http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/industry/05/21/supercomputing.future.idg/index.html
Specifically:
"In contrast to the traditional transistor-laden and hence power-hungry CPUs from AMD and Intel, the Crusoe CPU is fundamentally software-based with a small hardware core," Feng wrote in a white paper about his project, which is available on the Web.
kinda...like our brain with a small hardware core???