Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
160 core Mac Pro anyone?
- Thread starter MagicWok
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
...well this beats waiting for POWER12's
..at any rate, with IBM's new "chip stacking and cooling technology" +
Intel's (and others) still waiting on Optical Memory chips (all optical..see
below: *)..more than 32 Teraflops could become possible on what might
be "inserted into a laptop".
Leopard would need a serious revamp for any MP technology sets and
with what cell processor programmers are already seeing...perhaps even
custom emulators/simulators like were developed using the PPC for older
68040 code.
What would the Mac Power community do with 32 teraflops?
We might first need to sign agreements with the National Security Agency.
WW
*( http://optics.org/cws/article/research/23310 )
..at any rate, with IBM's new "chip stacking and cooling technology" +
Intel's (and others) still waiting on Optical Memory chips (all optical..see
below: *)..more than 32 Teraflops could become possible on what might
be "inserted into a laptop".
Leopard would need a serious revamp for any MP technology sets and
with what cell processor programmers are already seeing...perhaps even
custom emulators/simulators like were developed using the PPC for older
68040 code.
What would the Mac Power community do with 32 teraflops?
We might first need to sign agreements with the National Security Agency.
WW
*( http://optics.org/cws/article/research/23310 )
As long as someone else has revived this thread......
The upcoming Nehalem architecture will have up to 8 cores on a chip. And HyperThreading returns. That means 16 threads per chip.
A dual-socket system will be able to execute 32 threads. Holy crap. Right now, a 32-thread machine would be considered a supercomputer. Heck, 16-thread machines are considered "big iron".... And it's coming to a "workstation" class machine later this year. (Notebooks will be getting 8-thread chips!)
I was planning on upgrading my desktop with the next iMac iteration, but now I am certainly going to wait for a Nehalem iMac. I mean, this will be nearly as big an upgrade as the PPC to Intel upgrade. (For everything but the Mac Pro, it absolutely will be, for the Mac Pro, it will be close.)
I'm still hoping Apple will start using desktop CPUs and chipsets in the iMac. I would have gotten an iMac on its last upgrade if they had used a quad-core chip in it. (I just upgraded my PC with a Core 2 Quad 9450, a 2.66 GHz chip, and it is a screamer. Too bad the chipset isn't OSx86/Hackintosh-okay, I'd love to use it for my movie editing.)
The upcoming Nehalem architecture will have up to 8 cores on a chip. And HyperThreading returns. That means 16 threads per chip.
A dual-socket system will be able to execute 32 threads. Holy crap. Right now, a 32-thread machine would be considered a supercomputer. Heck, 16-thread machines are considered "big iron".... And it's coming to a "workstation" class machine later this year. (Notebooks will be getting 8-thread chips!)
I was planning on upgrading my desktop with the next iMac iteration, but now I am certainly going to wait for a Nehalem iMac. I mean, this will be nearly as big an upgrade as the PPC to Intel upgrade. (For everything but the Mac Pro, it absolutely will be, for the Mac Pro, it will be close.)
I'm still hoping Apple will start using desktop CPUs and chipsets in the iMac. I would have gotten an iMac on its last upgrade if they had used a quad-core chip in it. (I just upgraded my PC with a Core 2 Quad 9450, a 2.66 GHz chip, and it is a screamer. Too bad the chipset isn't OSx86/Hackintosh-okay, I'd love to use it for my movie editing.)