9 May
2018
9 May
'18
12:40 a.m.
It is amazing how well pipes fit into this model, up to a point. I once wrote a program
to generate and collate hundreds of thousands of images. I used the sed/grep/awk model,
with all the ease of attendant text I/O processing.
I was surprised one day to find it running twice as fast as usual. They had doubled the
number of
CPUs in the machine, and my program Just Worked. Not bad for an idea that was 35 years
old.
Of course, your fleet of processors will require different programming (CSP with go?). I
look forward
to see if your solutions are even remotely as easy and useful as the originals.
BTW, will those processors basically be 8051s?
ches
On 8May 2018, at 11:31 AM, Steve Johnson
<scj(a)yaccman.com> wrote:
My company, Wave Computing, has built a chip with 16,000 8-bit processors on it. And we
have plans to build systems with up to a quarter million processors. We are breaking
ground in new ways to use hundreds of processors to solve problems very quickly.
It's a new way of thinking, and it makes your brain hurt. But is is what the
hardware is giving us, and there is at least another order of magnitude ahead before this
trend starts running out of steam.
And it's exciting...
Steve