Monster Chip like Monster Home?

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Monster Chip like Monster Home?

• what San Franciscans have come to know as a
  monster home--a 6,000-square-foot behemoth that
  would tower five stories high, casting neighbors
  in its shadow and stretching clear to its lot
  lines.
• San Franciscans Fight Monster Home Invasion,
  LA Times, 7/13/00
• Bay Area cities using ordinances to stop them
• Era of wretched excess home,PC
• Memory for branch prediction bigger than
  minicomputer memory!
• Word processors that need 16 MB!

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Desktop vs. Gadgets/Server

• Desktop has warped design space max die size,
  max SPEC, power be damned
• Gadgets Cost/Power/Performance
• MIPS per joule, MIPS per dollar
• 2001 500 550 million cell phone handsets, each
  with 32-bit MPU DSP vs. 120 million PCs
• Servers Power/Throughput
• Tasks per second v. SPECmark
• Future low power so combined with disks

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Sustaining Moores Law vs. MIPS/?
Intel MPU die
RISC II die

• Scaled 32-bit, 5-stage RISC II 1/1000th of
  current MPU, die size or transistors

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New view ClusterOnaChip (CoC)

• Inspiration Google
• Search engine for world 100M/day
• Economical, scalable build blockPC cluster today
  6000 PCs, 12000 disks
• Advantages in fault tolerance, scalability,
  cost/performance
• 32-bit MPU as the new Nand Gate
• Cluster on a chip with 100s of MPUs enable
  amazing MIPS/, MIPS/watt for cluster
  applications
• MPUs combined with dense memory system on a
  chip CAD quick turn fab
• 30 years ago Intel 4004 used 800 gates when 800
  MPU chip?