[Beowulf] Opinions of Hyper-threading?

[Peter St. John]

Slashdot points to Daily Tech with the headline "Sun leaks 6 core...Nehalem
Details" at
http://www.dailytech.com/Sun%20Leaks%206core%20Intel%20Xeon%20Nehalem%20Details/article10834.htm
Peter

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 5:04 PM, James Cownie <jcownie at cantab.net> wrote:

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>  On 25 Feb 2008, at 19:40, Geoff Galitz wrote:
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>  Another thing to consider is that while HT certainly still exists in the
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> wild, no new systems implement it, hence limited testing.
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> However, if you believe the The Inquirer, it may be coming back.
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> "Nehalem is projected as arriving late, supporting two, four and eight
> cores, representing four, eight and 16 threads. "
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> http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/02/24/intel-csi-nehalem-dunnington
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> (Disclaimer: I work for Intel, but The Inquirer appears to know much more
> than me about this :-) (not hard, since I know nothing))
> --
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> -- Jim
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> --
>
> James Cownie <jcownie at cantab.net>
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