[rescue] SMP on intel wasteful?

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 01:40:04PM -0400, Big Endian wrote:
> >On June 25, Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez wrote:
> >> The truth is that discussions like these are moot. Vector is hardly used
> >> anymore,
> >
> >  Umm, what?  Do you not have much contact with the research community
> >or something?  There's a LOT of vector stuff going on in areas of
> >fluid mechnics and oil exploration, since (apparently) both of those
> >areas have a few problems that map very well to vector machines.
> >
> >> and when it is usually specialized SIMD approaches are used in that
> >> field.
> >
> >  Umm, WHAT?  Show me one vector machine that ISN'T a "specialized SIMD
> >approach".
> 
> Aren't "Vector Processor" and "SIMD processor" synonymous?

No.

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Joshua D. Boyd