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System Name | BY-2021 |
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Processor | AMD Ryzen 7 5800X (65w eco profile) |
Motherboard | MSI B550 Gaming Plus |
Cooling | Scythe Mugen (rev 5) |
Memory | 2 x Kingston HyperX DDR4-3200 32 GiB |
Video Card(s) | AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT |
Storage | Samsung 980 Pro, Seagate Exos X20 TB 7200 RPM |
Display(s) | Nixeus NX-EDG274K (3840x2160@144 DP) + Samsung SyncMaster 906BW (1440x900@60 HDMI-DVI) |
Case | Coolermaster HAF 932 w/ USB 3.0 5.25" bay + USB 3.2 (A+C) 3.5" bay |
Audio Device(s) | Realtek ALC1150, Micca OriGen+ |
Power Supply | Enermax Platimax 850w |
Mouse | Nixeus REVEL-X |
Keyboard | Tesoro Excalibur |
Software | Windows 10 Home 64-bit |
Benchmark Scores | Faster than the tortoise; slower than the hare. |
Tera-Scale is kind of an oxymoron. In one way, it is extremely flexible (lots of fully programmable cores) but in another, it's terribly inflexible (software programmers have tell the processor how to do almost everything). I think it can be used as a general purpose CPU but it needs to be coupled with a tailor-made operating system that's unlike any operating system on the market today. It's kind of in-between a lot of ideas: part GPU (tiles remind me of CELL SPEs), part CPU (can branch far deeper than GPUs), part ASIC (whatever the architecture can do, it will do well).
Intel mostly designed Tera-Scale to test the idea of high-speed interconnects. It will never find its way into a commercial product most likely because they can't convince anyone to create and maintain the operating system for it.
For the record: Tera-Scale "tiles" are definitely cores just as Bulldozer "modules" are definitely cores. Fetch -> decode -> execute. Both do that, and so does every other core. If you try to call Tera-Scale's FPMACs "cores" like you call Bulldozer's integer cluster "cores," you end up with the same incomplete understanding of what a core must do. FPMACs and integer clusters are glorified calculators--not processors. They can tell you 1+1=2 but they can't tell you 2 is an index into an array of values and whether the referenced value is odd or even and if odd, is it prime? That takes a processor, not a calculator.
Intel mostly designed Tera-Scale to test the idea of high-speed interconnects. It will never find its way into a commercial product most likely because they can't convince anyone to create and maintain the operating system for it.
For the record: Tera-Scale "tiles" are definitely cores just as Bulldozer "modules" are definitely cores. Fetch -> decode -> execute. Both do that, and so does every other core. If you try to call Tera-Scale's FPMACs "cores" like you call Bulldozer's integer cluster "cores," you end up with the same incomplete understanding of what a core must do. FPMACs and integer clusters are glorified calculators--not processors. They can tell you 1+1=2 but they can't tell you 2 is an index into an array of values and whether the referenced value is odd or even and if odd, is it prime? That takes a processor, not a calculator.
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