Olympus quits camera business after 84 years

Re:Olympus quits camera business after 84 years by bayindirh on Friday June 26, 2020 @05:39PM (#23657359)

The increase in CPU power doesn't become apparent until you start to use vectorization heavily or use your CPU for floating point-heavy scientific computing.

Some of the code I've written can speed up 3x just by using newer SIMD instruction sets and bigger caches. It's unbelievable until you see it.

I also manage HPC clusters, so we see strange effects when developers excessively hand-tune their code for a specific architecture.

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Re:Olympus quits camera business after 84 years by makapuf on Friday June 26, 2020 @08:01PM (#23658346)

Well of course hpc can benefit from 13 years of cpu advances. (And gpus). Noting that sse4 was even available on it. My point was we still wouldn't be relegated to stone age if we were stuck on 45nm processes, and we could also benefit from better architectures.

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