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Re:Meltdown and Spectre by jcranmer on Thursday January 04, 2018 @11:57AM (#16071855)
That's the Xeon Phi concept... which is apparently being taken out back and shot.

Our current programming paradigms don't adapt well to massive parallelism, except for some small classes of "embarassingly parallel" problems (e.g., make -jN).

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Re:Meltdown and Spectre by pmoriarty on Thursday January 04, 2018 @03:50PM (#16073961)
There are also GreenArrays chips, like the GA144.[1] 144 cores on a chip.

The downside (or upside) is that they're desgined for running Forth, and are not x86 compatible.

http://www.greenarraychips.com/home/documents/greg/PB001-100...

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Re:Meltdown and Spectre by api on Thursday January 04, 2018 @01:56PM (#16072992)
Most of what we do is pretty parallel: web hosting, servicing requests, databases, hosting tons of VMs and containers, etc. I don't buy it.

My guess on Phi is that it wasn't a big win over fewer deeper cores and so there was not much market. This might change things a bit.

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