Some company 'Tyan', has made (a?)motherboard that has slots for eight processors.You can put a solo core AMD Opteron processor on each slot,basically.[It only supports AMD's Opteron processors, although.Dumb, isn't it?]
Or you can also put eight dual core Opterons on it. 2x8=? 16!!!
Here's how it works-It has a main motherboard,that has 4 CPU slots.Then,it has another daughterboard that has yet another 4 CPU slots.So in a way, you get a PC with 8 or 16 cores, but not technically.You will NOT get the real performance of an 8-core or 16-core CPU with this layout.It is just namesake-"I have a 16-core computer!".
This stuff could be 512-bit processing capable, though I'm not saying it is.
Let's face it-who needs this much power?It's gonna be USELESS for gaming.Not a single application I know of can utilise all the 16 cores to their maximum potential.Plus, consider the amount of-
- Electricity required,
- Heat generated and
- Space taken,
This is crazy,isnt it?Oh well,some people just want attention for things anyone can do,though not as easily.
Okay then.Give me a motherboard with 4 CPU slots.Give me a daughterboard with another 4 slots.Give me a grand-daughterboard that has yet another 4 slots.Give me a great grand-daughterboard with YET another 4 slots.Yay,I have made a motherboard that has 16 slots for CPUs.Yaaaaaaay!!!I have beaten Tyan!!!!!I will earn millions for my new 'discovery'! [Big deal.]
Anyone can make such nutty things,which can handle multiple CPUs.But as long as the CPUs themselves are not good enough & applications are not ready etc,all this fancy stuff is of no use.
Now do you understand how dumb this concept is?(!)
Add to that-the cost of buying eight AMD Opteron dual core processors!!!See?
In human terms,this is how the layout will look like this-
We have to take a two-storey building, ground floor representing the motherboard and first floor representing the daughterboard.The ground floor will have four rooms, each room consisting of one person[solo-core] or one person with two brains[dual-core].(The people act as the processors.) Then, we have person A, the application.Person A will have to visit the building,then a room and finally, reach one of the people.
In real 16-core CPUs,There would be just one person who has all the 16 cores in him,in the form of brains.(so he will have 16 small but powerful brains).By then,the applications too would have commands to give all the 16 brains(cores) individual commands.
Anyway-congratulations Tyan, for doing something like this.
I mean no offence to you readers who find this news exciting.Still, we have to face the truth about all this.in this case, its not so nice.
I guess it would be fun to have one though.....!!!
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