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Re:Intel x86 Documentation Has More Pages Than The 6502 Has ... by iamgopal on Saturday August 05, 2023 @08:52AM (#37011532)
Isn’t it a great reminder that technology is not progressed enough to even take advantage of 60TFLOPS.
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Re:Intel x86 Documentation Has More Pages Than The 6502 Has ... by FirmwareBurner on Saturday August 05, 2023 @09:26AM (#37011803)
> to even take advantage of 60TFLOPS

Rendering Electron apps and mining Dodgecoins?

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Re:Intel x86 Documentation Has More Pages Than The 6502 Has ... by segfaultbuserr on Saturday August 05, 2023 @01:35PM (#37014458)
In scientific computing, it has become a serious problem. Because of the memory wall, many important algorithms can never take advantage of 60 TFLOPS due to their low arithmetic intensity. The only solutions are (1) stop using these algorithms, (2) stop using von Neumann computers (e.g. in-memory computing). The stop-gap solution is HBM or 3D-VCache.
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