[wellylug] OT: TLP Chips
Rob Giltrap
rob at ubietygroup.com
Wed May 12 23:14:24 NZST 2004
Of topic but for those who are interested in CPU technology Ace's
Hardware have an excellent article on Sun's forth coming Niagara processor
http://www.aceshardware.com/read.jsp?id=65000292
Given Intels dropping of Tejas & Jayhawk in favour of accelerating
dualcore chips. This explains a growing direction towards thread level
parallelism (in some cases over thread level performance)
As for the linux reference. The Niagara processor runs 32 simultaneous
threads. The 2.4 kernel is known to struggle beyond 4 threads. The new
2.6 kernel scheduler apparently handles up to 16 threads extremely well
now (as this was a major change for 2.6) but there are still a few
bottlenecks going beyond that dependent on load characteristics
Regards, Rob.
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