Can the same concept be used in general purpose supercomputing? Are general purpose computers a feasible concept?
In order for this [the Berkeley approach] to work, you need a problem that runs in parallel, because you need more of these [low clock frequency] processors to match the performance of a really big one. It happens that scientific applications already have plenty of parallelism available. While the desktop chips –- the Intels, the AMDs — can’t really play this game because things like Microsoft Word aren’t running in parallel, we can exploit this way beyond the ability of the desktop chip. I think they [general purpose supercomputers] are a realistic idea, and there’s still a place for general purpose supercomputing systems. In terms of general purpose supercomputing, there will be large systems that handle a broad array of applications. We’re saying for certain computation problems, ours is the correct approach, but it doesn’t supplant the need for general purpose computing because there are many problems that are much smaller than the petaflop or the exaflop. What is your research te
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