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Due to the different demand in processing power most "power house" chips - CPU and GPU - can either be exchanged directly or by the means of expansion cards. | Due to the different demand in processing power most "power house" chips - CPU and GPU - can either be exchanged directly or by the means of expansion cards. | ||
But progress on the hardware level is only one side of the coin. You also need software to utilize it. A Russian team demonstrated that [ | But progress on the hardware level is only one side of the coin. You also need software to utilize it. A Russian team demonstrated that [https://phys.org/news/2016-06-scientists-pc-complex-problems-tens.html some scenarios requiring supercomputing can actually by handled on a desk PC] after installing a new graphics card [http://arxiv.org/pdf/1508.07441.pdf (GTX-670, CUDA supported) and self-written software.] | ||
Still many PC programs can't draw advantage from multi-cores processors and will not. That is because not every program need multiple cores, like text editors. However the trend is here to stay: more cores. (See Intel's Core X and AMD's Threadripper.) Or more exactly: parallelism. It's the new hype. Together with machine learning and AI which started to regain traction again after its past [wp:AI_winter|winters]]. | Still many PC programs can't draw advantage from multi-cores processors and will not. That is because not every program need multiple cores, like text editors. However the trend is here to stay: more cores. (See Intel's Core X and AMD's Threadripper.) Or more exactly: parallelism. It's the new hype. Together with machine learning and AI which started to regain traction again after its past [wp:AI_winter|winters]]. | ||