This allows the concurrent execution of successive tasks, i.e., a reducer can start executing as soon as it receives it's input from a mapper, without requiring all the mappers to finish first.
"Intel is executing as well as they have in 10 or 15 years," said Cody Acree, an analyst with Stifel Nicolaus.
Equipped with this many processors, the brain might be capable of executing as many as 100 billion operations per second, a truly impressive number.
For them to do it eight straight over two years is really amazing, but you've got to give them credit for being as good as they were and going out there and executing as well as they did".
Mr. Bachardy, determined to make Isherwood's death "something we were doing together," chronicled his deterioration, executing as many as 9 or 10 drawings a day, including one of his corpse.
Towards the end of the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, he decided on a more radical solution, bombing Kurdish villages with poison gas and executing as many as 180,000 Kurds in the notorious anfal campaign.
