Future of CPUs

[gerryg400]

...with hardware message passing support between cores, for the microkernel guys !!!!!

[rdos]

...with hardware message passing support between cores, for the microkernel guys !!!!!

Nah, I could use that as well. I could add it to my messaging function which works within CPUs and on top of IP. I could make a faster between core function (at least teoretically).

[MasterLee]

What did you guys think about Event Driven proccesors?

[rdos]

What did you guys think about Event Driven proccesors?

That seems pretty ok as well. Many things I code for in the embedded world are event-driven. GUIs are also usually event driven. And one of my main synchronization primitives is a simple event (WaitForSignal/Signal). I could possibly implement that with fast inter-core communications as well on a CPU with more cores than threads.

[arjo129]

Ok here is what the future holds:

The "windows 8" release will have support 128bit AMD cpus. I imagine they will just be like th 64bit CPUs with porbably 32 extra registers instead of 16. I see no need for quantum or optical computing in desktop PCs. And event driven computing will definately be there.

p.s. windows 8 supposedly will have a 3D UI bet it'll be like MS bob

[MasterLee]

The "windows 8" release will have support 128bit AMD cpus.

Windows 8 will also run on ARM processors.

[DavidCooper]

I came across this story yesterday - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... aster.html - and I wondered if it's a development of substance or just old hat dressed up as new. Their server's slow today for some reason, but it will get there if you wait.

[fronty]

Too bad that article or only marginally longer article published by university of Glasgow didn't tell anything interesting and I didn't want to waste any longer part of my precious night looking for anything interesting after being dissapointed by Vanderbauwhede's website. Waiting for relevant information and my precious fpga laptot which starts to boot after I've prepared dinner while waiting the fpga to get programmed.

[NickJohnson]

Nope, it's not a development: video cards are set up exactly like that so-called "super chip", using hundreds or thousands of cores in parallel. Unfortunately, 20 times faster / 1000 cores = 1/50 usual speed of a single core, which means that anything using less than 50 threads effectively (a.k.a. pretty much everything at the moment) will run slower than on your average computer. The use of an FPGA also is inconsequential: FPGAs are just used to prototype these sorts of things, and are, obviously, strictly slower/more energy consuming than hardwired chips.

[fronty]

The use of an FPGA also is inconsequential: FPGAs are just used to prototype these sorts of things, and are, obviously, strictly slower/more energy consuming than hardwired chips.

At least in the article they praise FPGAs in such a way they made me believe that using FPGA was the point of this whole thing and not just part of the design phase.

[arjo129]

In 2050, I'll be looking at this thread and laughing at all of you. But yeah the concept of FPGAs taking over is a little far fetched.

[Dario]

The "windows 8" release will have support 128bit AMD cpus.

Windows 8 will also run on ARM processors.

And on MIPS64! But one of the most underestimated features is Windows 8 will solve world poverty and hunger all in a single neat package!

What is "Windows"? Is that something like VMS?

[arjo129]

What is "Windows"? Is that something like VMS?

Why its that OS which MS created and does not work properly.

[Firestryke31]

What is "Windows"? Is that something like VMS?

Why its that OS which MS created and does not work properly.

It works better than most of the "OSs" here...

[Dario]

It works better than most of the "OSs" here...

Hmm...then I must download it and try out! Where can I download it?