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From: Ir. Hj. Othman bin Hj. Ahmad on 9 Jul 2008 07:50 http://www.researchchannel.org/asx/uw_cse_google_250k.asx You can listen to the video of Urz explaining how Google implement its system. It is part of the University of Washington Colloquim series. It struck me as an example of designing a system that emphasises intelligence over brute computing power. The conclusion: no need for large cache, no need for byte level parallelism, only need SIMD, Single Instruction, Multiple Data parallelism(not so sure about this though) This lecture is dated to 2002 but is still useful. The trend is supported by the multiple core cpus. Multithreading was mentioned as desirable. |