[Info-vax] OT: Intel says 1,000-core processor is possible

[JF Mezei]

Michael Kraemer wrote:

> Do they also try to scale ordinary RAM so that it can feed those
> 1000 cores with enough data?

If you use those 1000 cores to calculate pie to infinity, you don't
really need much memory access because you probably have everything in
registers. Lets face it, such computers would be purpose built for a
particular project. You couldn't really have a general purpose one for this.

Then again,  Kerry Main would be extatic about the propspects of being
able to consolidate 1000 instances of Windows onto a single CPU computer :-)