Stories like this always make me giggle and snicker like a school girl in health class. And this gem I found over at Scientific American was just more happy juice for the Keyur kar. Suck it creationists!
I was also very elated to have read this story, you go Sun! Its about time people took notice and started waving the red flag at the trend to go with mass parallelism. Mass parallelism is a wonderful and elegant concept, sadly it requires specialized compilers and code thats written to take advantage of that. I think the Playstation 2 is a great example of the woes that developers face when dealing with a massively parellel architechture. 16 pipelines. hehehehehe :) If anything the answers to squeezing performance out of silicon are going to be smarter and more pervasive threading, multiple cores per die, and runtime optimization at the machine level.
Today was a great bash on Keyur day. Friend 1 told me today I shouldn't dance because when I dance I look like a spastic ninja mime on muscle relaxants. He said this one time he saw me doing something that looked a lot like the cabage patch as interpreted by rhythmless nun trolls. Sometime later Friend 2 chimes in with, "you should setup a webcam in your room. I don't know why, but I get this feeling we'll catch you doing something stupid." Good to know that your friends have utmost confidence in your capability to lower the IQ floor THAT much more! :) I would love to take on any of you (listen up Ram) in a good round of some trivia! My head is so full of random tid bits of knowledge it surprises and scares me all the same.
You know today I was thinking...boy isn't it smart that CNN has a 24 hour news channel to cover things that happen around the world. Then I thought about the intelligence invested in having a 24 hour news channel devoted to the ALMOST CITY that is Austin. Another classic example of where hopes exceed intelligence.
Okay now its time to go back to fun stuff like this. Yippee for solving.
Posted by Mr. Keyur at June 27, 2002 05:52 PM