Occasional Observations

After a morning spent writing an article about multiple-core dual-socket server blades, my own processor is heading for meltdown. Words that have adopted a certain meaning are suddenly wrong.

For example, I was referring to a CPU as a processor, when it's actually a die. Trying to explain that this "processor" has two cores, when these are generally known as processors, is when it gets complicated (I plumped for the description of two hearts beating as one). Then add an extra level of complexity by explaining that it's possible to put two dual-core, dual socket blades together to make a quad and two of these quads can be bundled into an octo - which actually has 16 "processors".

I'm getting there.

# posted by Nesjo : 12:36