Fall IDF 2005 - Day 1: Coverage of Everything
by Anand Lal Shimpi on August 24, 2005 2:31 AM EST- Posted in
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Intel's BTX, Back at the Show
Intel's BTX form factor did make an appearance at IDF, but a very quiet one. A lot of the demo systems were actually BTX form factors, but the only central location for all things BTX was at the very back of the Technology Showcase:
There were some fairly sleek case designs, such as the Dell case we'd seen everywhere (especially in the virtualization demos):
Intel also had a few BTX motherboards on display:
...some of which were even their own:
But overall the focus on BTX has definitely calmed since its first introduction, and we've heard much of the same from motherboard makers.
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Questar - Wednesday, August 24, 2005 - link
The 5-10 year part is speculation of Anand. Intel never said it would take that long. I'll bet two years. It doesn't take 5 years to write a compiler or add a chip feature.Anand Lal Shimpi - Wednesday, August 24, 2005 - link
The Intel rep that did the demo was the one that provided the 5 - 10 year estimate. This research is in its very early stages, but the promising first results means it will probably get more support.Take care,
Anand
drpepper128 - Wednesday, August 24, 2005 - link
Is it just me or are we missing something here?To me it seems that the real power of Mitosis is that companies would not have to worry about writing code that is mult-threaded. Instead they can have single-threaded code and use the compiler to multi-thread it. This is where the real power of multi-core processors could come from. Some day when we have 100 core processors we will need something like a compiler to figure things out for us; otherwise a company's costs would skyrocket. Think somewhere along the lines of graphics cards.
JarredWalton - Wednesday, August 24, 2005 - link
I was thinking if they could get Mitosis into the chips (rather than required compiler support) then it would benefit practically *any* application. The only time it wouldn't help performance would be when your CPU was either fully loaded on every core, or perhaps if the multiple threads start using up resources that could be better used on stuff other than speculative execution.