Snow Leopard

Somebody, somewhere, mentioned Snow Leopard as having catering to
multiple processors in it's dream list of perfections. Might that
mean something absolutely terrifying: like 64 or 128 intel
processors on a daughter board, more or less efficiently stalking
it's tasks at 50 to 100 times the speed of a single processor ?

It would need water cooling. Diverted to the dishwasher and laundry
in these modern times ;-) of course. Or is it just a shocking
nightmare for us who only have a 'One Meow Intel Solo ?'
George

On 22-Jun-2008, at 16:05, George Wade wrote:
> Somebody, somewhere, mentioned Snow Leopard as having catering to
> multiple processors in it's dream list of perfections. Might that
> mean something absolutely terrifying: like 64 or 128 intel
> processors on a daughter board, more or less efficiently stalking
> it's tasks at 50 to 100 times the speed of a single processor ?

We will be seeing 16 core machines very soon, and 32 core ones in the
not to distant future. I would not be surprised to see a 10.6 Xserve
with 64 cores in the next two years.

> It would need water cooling.

Really depends on the size of the enclosure. Chips are getting much
more efficient (read, cooler). The question is, would a 64 core
machine at---say---1.8Ghz each be much more efficient than a 32 core
machine at 2.5Ghz each?