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Robert Hallock
(Thrax)
Did we say "World's fastest? Oops! Add a sprinkling of marketing, there..."
Sun releases the “World’s fastest multi-core commodity chip,” whatever that means in the fantastical world of benchmarketing. Weighing in at a bantam 1.4GHz, this octal-core CPU rocks 64 threads, quad IMCs and eight lanes of PCIe I/O. They make this claim based on a pair of “Record-setting SPEC benchmark results,” which is a bit like saying it’s been the heaviest rain season ever because there’s a foot of rainwater in a bucket.
But, hey, fastest multi-core commodity chip. Who are we to argue?
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Dan "Shorty" Pass is ... well, his user ID is 1.
Literally.. 1.
He was one of three co-founders of the site that became Icrontic back in 2003, along with Brian Ambrozy and Doug Kronlund. With his help, Icrontic grew into the behemoth that it is today.
Now retired from Icrontic-ing, he moonlights as a forum moderator and heads up our British contingent.
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