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Re:Moore’s Law Not Dead – Intel’s Use of HPC to Keep It Alive by revelation on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @04:16PM (#10890466)
Why is it important to keep the clock stable? Or rather, what level of stability are we talking about?

I would think that a customer doesn't particularly care if the clock is fluctuating 100MHz.

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Re:Moore’s Law Not Dead – Intel’s Use of HPC to Keep It Alive by nikdaheratik on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @08:41PM (#10891764)
The clock is used to move items along the processing pipeline (between one set of transistors and another). If you don't keep everything in sync, then instructions get executed out of order and that's bad, obviously.
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