Exactly! We barely interact with our dishwashers, refrigerators, and water heaters. We just fill them up and empty them out occasionally. Boring! But we’re willing to devote hundreds or thousands of watts to them and dozens of square feet of floor space to them. Computers are much more interesting, therefore they deserve that same appliance treatment.
I’m kidding in these sense that I don’t think a single core could be designed to usefully use 1000W. I get why things happened as they did. But I do still think single threaded performance is much more interesting than multi-core, so I wish we could see how those designs would have evolved.
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(Edit: With modern core counts) I think we’d be seeing partnerships with GE, Whirlpool, Rheem etc ;)
Exactly! We barely interact with our dishwashers, refrigerators, and water heaters. We just fill them up and empty them out occasionally. Boring! But we’re willing to devote hundreds or thousands of watts to them and dozens of square feet of floor space to them. Computers are much more interesting, therefore they deserve that same appliance treatment.
I’m kidding in these sense that I don’t think a single core could be designed to usefully use 1000W. I get why things happened as they did. But I do still think single threaded performance is much more interesting than multi-core, so I wish we could see how those designs would have evolved.
There’s so much waste heat that could be diverted into hot water storage.
At the time you’d start up your computer, then go make some coffee or tea while it booted. Imagine if that could be combined into one process!
Time for a custom water cooling loop!