Comments on: A Conversation with Hennessy and Patterson http://www.thinkingparallel.com/2007/02/14/a-conversation-with-hennessy-and-patterson/ A Blog on Parallel Programming and Concurrency by Michael Suess Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:39:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: An interview with Hennessy and Patterson | insideHPC http://www.thinkingparallel.com/2007/02/14/a-conversation-with-hennessy-and-patterson/comment-page-1/#comment-2277 An interview with Hennessy and Patterson | insideHPC Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:12:16 +0000 http://www.thinkingparallel.com/2007/02/14/a-conversation-with-hennessy-and-patterson/#comment-2277 [...] Mike over at Thinking Parallel blog posts a pointer to an interview in the ACM Queue with John Hennessy and David Patterson, authors of Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach (as if you didn’t already know that). [...] [...] Mike over at Thinking Parallel blog posts a pointer to an interview in the ACM Queue with John Hennessy and David Patterson, authors of Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach (as if you didn’t already know that). [...]

]]> By: Christopher C. Aycock http://www.thinkingparallel.com/2007/02/14/a-conversation-with-hennessy-and-patterson/comment-page-1/#comment-2251 Christopher C. Aycock Wed, 14 Feb 2007 23:34:23 +0000 http://www.thinkingparallel.com/2007/02/14/a-conversation-with-hennessy-and-patterson/#comment-2251 I love H&P's book; I've read the 2nd and 3rd editions straight through and I'm looking forward to the 4th. As for what they're saying, yes, parallelism is the biggest thing in transitor-based architecture, between multicore CPUs on one side and co-processors on the other. As for FPGAs, they're great for hardware designers (though I am skeptical that an end-user would want to use them). The other big announcements this week were interesting too, like Intel's 80-core chip, IBM's embedded DRAM, and D-Wave quantum computer. What a week for HPC. I love H&P’s book; I’ve read the 2nd and 3rd editions straight through and I’m looking forward to the 4th. As for what they’re saying, yes, parallelism is the biggest thing in transitor-based architecture, between multicore CPUs on one side and co-processors on the other. As for FPGAs, they’re great for hardware designers (though I am skeptical that an end-user would want to use them).

The other big announcements this week were interesting too, like Intel’s 80-core chip, IBM’s embedded DRAM, and D-Wave quantum computer. What a week for HPC.

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