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keith wrote: On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 07:37:36 +0000, Nick Maclaren wrote: In article , keith writes: | On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 09:24:06 -0700, Eugene Miya wrote: | Stefan Monnier wrote: | Your second CPU will be mostly idle, of course, but so is the first CPU | anyway ;-) | Yeah, but that's not bad. | 2nd CPUs are cheap these days. | | You may htinf the second is "cheap", but I don't. The second CPU and the | board that dgoes with it are certainly *not* "cheap". What board? I will use the TF-1 as an example. CPUs weren't boards. There were multiple CPUs on a chip, so most of the pattern was reusable. The cost difference is far more marketing than production. Dual CPU boards are sold as 'servers' and as 'performance workstations', both at a premium. They could equally well be sold with the same margin as the 'economy' boards. The development costs (board/chipset/BIOS) have to be recaptured across fewer units sold, so will cost more. Look at the prices of boards with on-board SCSI, for another example. OTOH, it doesn't cost all *that* much more to throw another core on a chip. If you are seeking economies of scale in parallel computing, it doesn't work well that way. The redundance works toward scale economies. The problem is that the infrastructure does not last a long. The desk top is not a likely near term place to find most multiprocesssors as a final product. Dual processors are marginal for most uses. In the numeric area, you want to see performance improvements of factors of 8-16 if not more, not 2-4. -- |
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