With todays SATA 3 speeds 0f 500MBS and faster, is it possible to use this type of technoligy on microprocessors so that each core of A CPU can have it's own independent RAM?  

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Edited: 11/22/2012 at 09:51 AM by wesworld1

I don't see any connection between the beginning and end of that sentence.

 

Let's start with the transfer from the hard drive to the RAM. A 64 bit channel of RAM now loads on a parallel data bus. If a 64 bit bus is divided into 4 16 bit sections and fed by a 200 GByte solid state hard drive, that is divided into 4 50 GByte sections with each of the section's channel out running at 500 MBS on a SATA 3 type bus, then a RAM loading transfer rate of 2GBS should be possible on a single 64 bit channel of RAM. If a second 64 bit RAM channel is added, along with a second 4 channel solid state hard drive, then a 4GBS Ram loading rate should be possible. What if you had a 16 bit core running each 16 bit RAM channel, then would it be possible to run 16, 32, 48 & 64 bit programs depending on how the cores were assigned?

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The only way that would make sense is in a 4U server system with 16 RAM chips, except it doesn't make any sense whatsoever, as in server systems there is bandwith galore, and technology which allows any core to access data in any memory chip. I still cant decipher your whole post, talking about memory access then at the end talk about running some antique 16 bit programs...

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If 4 16 bit processors are ganged together along with their RAM would it not be the equivalent of a 64 bit processor? The object is to get processors with 16,20, 24, etc. etc.etc. cores that can be assigned as programs need to run the main program or subroutines. In some cases a subroutine may only need a sixteen bit system while it does it's thing in the background.

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No... you'll have four 16 bit processors each running tiny instructions and using tiny amounts of memory.  What you're trying to describe here is some kind of clustering system.  The idea its self isn't bad, you're just going about it the wrong way.

The idea of giving each CPU/core its own local memory isn't new.  It's been done before.  The reason we haven't seen it on the desktop is that desktops don't need it yet.  Typically some NUMA-like setup is reserved for sytems that have dozens or even hundreds of CPUs in the mix.  There's also a drawback, which is that some regions of memory will take longer to access than others.  When there's relatively few threads being executed at any one point in time, and the memory system spends most of it's time fetching relatively small amounts of random data... that's not a good thing to have around.

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Edited: 11/12/2012 at 02:38 PM by Mime

How many actual instructions control a basic processor?

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Depends on the processor.  x86 is sort of notorious for having a ton of baggage which often just gets in the way.  ARM chips are all the rage recently since they're so much more power efficient, but that's partly just because they don't have the same resources that the average x86 chip does.

Typically there's a handful of common instructions which are used heavily with the rest being odd-balls or more specialized to a certain type of workload.

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Edited: 11/13/2012 at 12:12 AM by Mime

64 bit registers, Latches and so on and so forth are still required to process and manipulate 64 bit data.

 

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That's a whole lot of gobbledygook that means absolutely nothing.

 

 

No.  That question shows that you have no understanding whatsoever of any of the terms you're throwing around. 

 

If you take 4 16 bit processors and align thier outputs in series, one connected on the end of the other, i think you will come up with a 64 bit string.

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HINT!

If one were to use a 64 bit 4 core 4 channel memory or a 64 bit 6 core 6 channel memory BOSS controller to control all of the 16 bit WORKER cores then would all of the cores would have their own ram channels?

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...in a word....

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Heh... unfortunately adding "bosses" and workers to the mix won't make a bad idea any better...

So, the short answer to "is it possible" is: yes, if you do it differently. 

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Feel free to make any suggestions or comments on how to do things differently or improve processes, that is how brainstorming works!

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In current parralell bus RAM configuration, how many RAM channels before you run out of room for the path work? I used to work with multi-layered circuit boards and , on occasion, had problems with the middle layers getting good solder connections.

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I tell them at work that I am an android sent to earth by the starship enterprise to monitor the evolution of the monkeys and frankly I don't think they are doing so well, send in the borg. All kidding aside I think it is time for the P. C. to evolve.

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