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Re:Probabilistic processors possibly pack potent punch by aidenn0 on Wednesday March 30, 2011 @02:09AM (#2386059)
My biggest reason for thinking this won't make inroads into HPC is that they talk about "Up to 1000x improvement over x86 calculations" well that means they need to get it to market and adopted before we have 256 or 512 x86 cores in a single socket, which isn't that far away, and would reduce their advantage to "Up to 4-8x" which is not nearly as impressive.
Re:Probabilistic processors possibly pack potent punch by pygy_ on Wednesday March 30, 2011 @02:48AM (#2386141)
These chips are also very energetically efficient, and I can't see why moore's law wouldn't apply to them too. You could build a 256 core probabilistic processor as well.