Sure, throw in one x86 core, just to run geezer apps.
The current situation is that we run multiple applications on one core, which, so far, guarantees that somebody will find a way to hack it.
So don't do either. Run one app, driver, or file system per core. Run the OS, and nothing else, on one core, with absolute hardware protection. Power down the cores that have nothing to do.
Or else keep having viruses and trojans and timeouts and crashes forever.
John
People enjoy the instant responsiveness, and that takes a lot of CPU power. Just think of web browsing or pdf rendering.
That's grandpa's philosophy. In our days, if a toy is broken, they buy a new toy.
Okay. What do you think why a grateful humanity has not yet set a monument to you?
VLV
But the new toy comes just as broken.
Every city, every highway, every airplane, every supermarket full of food, is a monument to engineers.
John
Or a machine called RoadRunner - the most powerful supercomputer in the world for a year.
The current record holder uses a ton of GPUs at about 55% efficiency.
In between the record was held by a brute force collection of Opteron processors from Cray.
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In old times it was enough.
ngth
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Uh. New guy ?
Or "bad", for this matter.
I think the current record for compute power is held by Watson.
I wonder what would happen if you asked Watson something like "How do you feel today?" or "How do you get your answers?" or "Do you know who or what you are?" ;-)
Could Watson pass the Turing test?
Cheers! Rich
Ayup. It was fixed by reworking the communications routines (following the original spec) to add record and file length counts.
I had another CS major, an intern, who was enamored with recursion. It only took a few days of testing to soak up all the memory in a mainframe (surprisingly little, even at that time) and crash. She was searching records for similarities and recursing when there *wasn't* a match. It hard to unwind the mess after you've broken the spring. Recursion, as usual, was foolish even if done right.
...and your point (I don't mean the little one between your shoulders)?
AlwaysWrong is *Always* wrong. But even you knew that, DimBulb.
This list is six months old, but Roadrunner had dropped to seventh by then.
Do you not know how to read, EVER? He already included it, idiot!
The only geezer app I would want to run, I would want to run on you. The on button for the Soylent Green machine.
Actually, I am pretty sure that it is "Blue Gene".
That does not compute.
Another ill defined, non-computing query.
See above.
Can you pass a Google search test?
Which is why we have you, JL, and Roy.
Recursive iterations of the same, broken idiot mentality.
Sad that you are all three too stupid to see the similarities between yourselves, and a dung beetle.
DANCE, you little retarded bitch... DANCE!
Dung? You are insanely obsessed with all things poop, scat, schoolyard butt-crack peeping, and nekkid guy-butts.
Yuk!
John
Wow, how old is that movie?
John
I'll bet you read "The Cuckoo's Egg".
That was all about Linux, but one of the points was that many of the SysOps never changed the defaults to be more secure.
Remember?
John
Too senile to remember such a trivial fact?
Too stupid (or lazy)to pop off with your google mastery? Have you ever even been to the IMDB site?
Do you remember "Bonk, bonk, on the head"?
Nah, DimBUlb, you're Roy's type. The two of you could get married in several states.
AlwaysWrong is compelled to show how wrong he is, always.
I keep telling you, DimBulb, you're *not* my type. Now go play in mommy's hamper with your pal Roy.
AlwaysWrong always has to show how wrong he can be.
No I don't. The Cockoo's Egg predates Linux.
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