W e always ask: made in China ? ! as a gesture of saying: what ?
Now China is building a petascale supercomputer with home-grown processors, this how nations plan for the next generations. The Arabs, who once lead the world in science and innovations, can hardly build small scale computers, we only buy what others make, so the Hadeeth Shareef hits us as we eat form what others grow and wear what others make, and hence we are of no good. The 4 PFLOPS daemon will be ready by mid 2010 and will host around 12,500 cores (782 chips with 16 core each). Click the title for more.
Friday, January 22, 2010
Made in China ? ! ..... YES
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Intel's Itanium is wealthier, faster and with better instructions set, but fails to address the the parallel programming issues. Others, like IBM's Cell, Intel's Larrabee, Sun's Rock and AMD Fusion processors are all driving in the same lane, as they all based on the same concept; classical sequential computing.
Maybe this explains why the Arabs are out of the game, looking for the solution
I am not a fan of China, but I respect their will to depend on thier own resources, from fast trains, to sattelites and computers, down to the garlic that we, in Jordan, import from China
A word on the parallel programming issue: the current model of computing (Turing Computing Model or TCM) is sequential by nature, while todays complex programming of many-core hardware requires timing-conscious model in which any two operations of a program can be unambiguously determined as being either sequential or parallel, which is central to the reliability, security and ease of programming. Currently, threading is the way to do that, but clearly it is not quite effecient.
الله ينور عليك يا دكتور الدوس
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