hehe, the 'novix' gets mentioned, we had a pre-production unit of that chip back in the stone age :)<p>Quite amazing how fast it was for its day, we used it for some real time image recognition (license plate scanning) demonstrations.
"Within a few short years, we can expect to be dealing with multi-million-thread programs running on million-core systems.<p>This will no doubt stress the contemporary HPC software model which was developed in a time when 512 cores was a large number."<p><a href="http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_projects.nsf/pages/hare.index.html" rel="nofollow">http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_projects.nsf/pa...</a>