"Anthony D. Baye" <Sha### [at] spamnomorehotmailcom> wrote:

>
> I can't remember much from the last time I took Computer Organization and
> Architecture... It wasn't my strongest subject by far... but the speedup gained
> from parallel processing is a function of how much of the application in
> question is parallel vs how much is serial.
>
> Have you run the numbers?
>
> Regards,
> A.D.B.

I was just expecting the 970 to be faster per core per clock since it's based on
POWER4.

POWER8, however, is apparently going to be quite a beast.

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