I suspect you aren’t a regular reader of insideHPC. My regular readers have grown accustomed to that tone, and that comment was intended to be humorous (note my use of the phrase “wanton abandon.”) During this time the world was on fire with multicore frenzy, and I was poking fun.

That said, I hope you will become a regular reader of insideHPC if you are interested in supercomputing and high performance computing applications. We tend toward to the ultra high end, but also spend a fair amount of time (and this is increasing) on the other end of the market as well.

I didn’t look at the date of the original post. However, after a quick google search I found use of the word “octacore” from as early as feb 2005, over 2 1/2 yrs previous to the blog in question.

Imho people posting such threads on the net must learn that reality comes before fantasy. Anyone can sit in front of a monitor and pretend they invented such and such. It’s only when someone points their stories out that they at least have a chance to get a grip with the truth. Really this should have been done before.

If you think this reply is “snarky” delete it. I personally see it as being straight forward. Perhaps something the computer community isn’t ready for.

Future aggressively snarky posts will be deleted.

perhaps you claim to have invented other things that are already in use?

does the term “bollox” mean anything to you?