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Perf Support For 2,048 CPU Cores Is Becoming Not Enough - Patches Bump Kernel Limit
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How long until CPUs and GPUs just merge into one thing
Probably never. Those 2048 cores are all separate threads. GPUs work with a cluster of cores all following a single thread of execution.
MIMD Vs SIMD.