28 Jun
2018
28 Jun
'18
9:07 p.m.
On Thu, 28 Jun 2018 16:52:26 -0400 Lawrence Stewart
<stewart(a)serissa.com> wrote:
Some weird stuff gets built for CDNs! We had a
real-time video
transcoding project at Quanta using Tilera chips to do transcoding
on demand for retrofitting systems in China with millions of old
cable boxes. Not I/O limited at all! There was a <lot> of I/O but
still more computing.
Of course, Tilera is a many core architecture, so again, I think
this supports the original point, which is we're now in the parallel
and distributed age, and that demands software design techniques to
match. (Indeed, If I Recall Correctly, the guys at MIT that designed
the original Tilera stuff are now looking at building 1000 core
devices.)
Perry
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