2012-03-09, 12:04 AM
MuscleWizard Wrote:what
no seriously what
i don't understand that comparison at all.
how can a processor download movies
This isn't a processor, it's the interconnect for parallel processors. It's like a network between multiple CPUs on the same system.
The point of the analogy was to describe the volume of data it is capable of processing in terms that make sense to things people do every day.
They'll need significant adaptation to have any usage commercially, because right now the best use for them that I can see would be applications and databases that have to pass huge sets of data back and forth, such as within mainframes. There's very little comparable work in normal computing, except possibly video rendering and that can be better done by a dedicated GPU, so they'd need to dummy this tech down somewhat and find ways to use it that can improve a standard PC.
It's not having what you want - It's wanting what you've got.