[ExI] Watson On Jeopardy

[Eugen Leitl]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 09:37:08PM +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 09:55:45AM -0800, spike wrote:
> 
> > Richard you are aware that cell phones can now play grandmaster level chess?
> 
> Spike, are you aware that your last-generation smartphone
> runs rings around a Pentium 3? Fritz goes back to 1992, hardware
> was a bit pathetic, then. Right now the thing in your pocket
> is more powerful than a desktop PC of start-noughties.

As a data point, Tegra 3 (to be released this year) is a quad core (with
12 GPU cores) will beat a first-gen 2 GHz Core 2 Duo (Core 2 Duo T 7200, 
Merom core, released 4.5 years ago).

The interesting part is that this is a mobile device, hence
easily passively cooled, and hence could scale to air-cooled WSI
clusters. 

In similar vein (and as antipode to AMD's Fusion):

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20110119204601_Nvidia_Maxwell_Graphics_Processors_to_Have_Integrated_ARM_General_Purpose_Cores.html

less relevant, but still interesting

http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4210937/Intel-rolls-six-merged-Atom-FPGA-chips

In regards to a short range (<100 m, optics) signalling mesh, there's 
forthcoming http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_Peak

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