[PRO] sobre a IBM, POWER(pc) e o futuro

Uma outra entrevista, muito sobre o Power5, mas não só.

http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/cpu/POWER5.ars

Jon: Someone else asked, "GPU vendors such as NVIDIA have been promoting the idea of using GPUs for more generic computation, and proof of concept is likely to make its way to general deployment... Is this something that is seen as long-term competition to workstation/supercomputer architectures such as POWER?"

Prattnaik: I'm sure it is, right, because NVIDIA is a great company and makes very good chips and, you know, it will compete. But we are quite comfortable with our design point. Because remember, our design point is – of course, you have seen the performance numbers, but it is tremendously on the flexibility and reliability, etc. And somebody else of course can build that, but then they would end up building a system very much like ours. There is not much magic there.
 
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