[Info-vax] BOINC for VMS

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2012-04-03 19.10, David Froble wrote:

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> Myself, (which probably doesn't mean much), I feel that the OoO concept
> in Alpha and Power provides a method to get faster processing out of a
> set of instructions, if, IF, you can coordinate it well enough. How to
> do this? Simple, one word, "money". Takes lots of smart people trying
> different ideas, adopting those that work, and setting aside those that
> don't work, "today". DEC didn't, or couldn't, continue to fund Alpha. So
> far I haven't heard that IBM has taken that route.
>
> Process shrinks and tons of cache have made the itanic much faster than
> the Alphas. That, and some small inter-core communication improvements
> are all Intel has been able to manage.

I basically agree with all you write. Signals speeds and distances are 
the limiting factors today, and signal speed is not going to change 
much. Size are also getting close to their lower limits, which leaves 
more clever execution.

I'm curious though, is really the Itanium that much faster than the Alpha?

	Johnny