Author Topic: Sun Micro in quest of clockless CPU (Read 817 times)

MrBill · « **on:** March 05, 2001, 04:44:00 PM »

But will it fly if it's not M$ compatable.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/2/17356.html

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SwampRat · « **Reply #1 on:** March 05, 2001, 07:44:00 PM »

You ever price a Sparc-Ultra?? lolol

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bloom25 · « **Reply #2 on:** March 06, 2001, 12:12:00 AM »

SwampRat, yes.

(We have some here. They are about 10 Grand apiece for an Ultra 10 with 1/2 a gig of ram. They are all networked together though and have something like 10 TB (yes terabytes) of storage space on the file server.) I'd love to run Ah on them at about 200 fps or so.

I just spent the better part of today running matlab on one plotting current and torque graphs for 3 phase motors.

As for clockless processors, you'd need one to just do the calculations to make it work.

The problem I can see would be managing the delays created by the different parts of the chip and getting them to work together. The chip can only be as "fast" as the slowest part of it then.

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miko2d · « **Reply #3 on:** March 06, 2001, 01:29:00 PM »

Clockless CPU - what a bunch of BS for public consumption.
So there will really be several clocks instead of one - big deal. It's not like the processor components all worked synchronuously till now. Ever heard of clock multipliers? Out-of order execution, etc? Different parts of a processor can work separately (and save energy) even now.
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