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Re:Intel introduces 3-GHz desktop chip (2002) by aheilbut on Thursday September 19, 2013 @12:53AM (#6409894)
Imagine the type of machine learning we could do on 384 low power 1GHz cores.
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Re:Intel introduces 3-GHz desktop chip (2002) by pjscott on Thursday September 19, 2013 @01:10AM (#6409958)
Not everything parallelizes nicely. Given enough processors, serial computation eventually becomes the bottleneck:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl's_law

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Re:Intel introduces 3-GHz desktop chip (2002) by aheilbut on Thursday September 19, 2013 @01:16AM (#6409976)
Many machine learning methods parallelize extremely nicely.
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