Reversing the history of computer architecture
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From: "Andy "Krazy" Glew" on 24 Dec 2009 01:13 Peter Grandi wrote: > [ ... ] > >> If I make the following assumptions: >> * Transistors are free >> * But power is the most important thing >> * and you have a lot of parallelism >> as is true of some supercomputer workloads (and even virtual >> reality graphics for the home) > >> Then I think that you can reasonably extrapolate that the best >> computer architecture is MIMD, with the simplest possible, >> non-pipelined, blocking on a cache miss, processor cores. > > That's the idea behind Hewitt's (and lately Agha's) "actor > model" and "garbage collection of processes" approach... ??? I thought I knew Actors. At least I read the wikipedia page. But I don't know this. Can you elaborate? I think of Actors as a model of concurrency. Not an implementation architecture. |