Talk:Main Page/CSC 456 Fall 2013/1a bc

Round 3 reply

Since thumbnail creation appears to be broken, I'll leave it as links for the time being, as the PNGs are rather large in dimension.

Round 3 comments

Please add citations in your running text, e.g., for what you say about chip multiprocessors.

Table 1.2 needs dates of introduction.

Please add narration about the trends shown in your Top 500 graphs. Also, there should be a way to embed the graphs in the page, rather than linking to a .jpg.

For mobile processors, some discussion of dynamic frequency scaling would be helpful, with links to further descriptions.

Round 2 comments

Please insert a link to the previous (2012) version of the page.

The Cluster Computers table has most of the information in the Specifications column. Consider splitting it into multiple columns, e.g., processor chip, interconnect, OS.

Last time, we talked about looking at trends from Top500.org. You could include graphs (being careful to cite the source!) and discuss what they show.

Other comments

Observe trends, pulling data from Top500 Architecture statistics -mpp, constellations gone 2007 Number of cores Interconnects

Of interest? IBM Blue Gene/Q design uses 18-core processor, 16 computer cores, 1 OS core, 1 non-functional manufacturing spare.