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Re:IBM scientists say radical new ‘in-memory’ architecture w... by tboyd47 on Friday October 27, 2017 @03:24PM (#15571441)
Are these benchmarks unusual to anyone else? Things like changing the color of all the black pixels in a bitmap simultaneously and performing correlations on historical rainfall data. Is it because this technology is more suitable for certain types of computations?
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Re:IBM scientists say radical new ‘in-memory’ architecture w... by scientistem on Friday October 27, 2017 @03:49PM (#15571631)
I think this is most analagous to simd in terms of issueing a single computation over multiple words of data, which would work well for both zeroing data and operating on scalar arrays.
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