As the instigator of the offending post, I am delighted to see the discussion. I am down at Supercomputing 08 with Tom and others and we will be discussing this topic on a panel this evening,. The discussants include NVIDIA and Intel (and SUN and IBM and AMD) so clearly this is an issue of concern to ALL computer manufacturers. If you are in Austin - come to room 10B this evening (Monday, Nov 17). If you are not, we are doing a live webcast on the subject http://is.gd/7Rvz on Thursday Nov 20. I would love to be able to carry discussion on this topic further. One idea would be an open forum using some kind of internet voice/text app. Not sure which yet. I know I could drag some Intel folks and I'm pretty sure I could get a few folks from elsewhere in the industry and acacdemia to join in. Maybe we could even make this a semi-regular and continuing discussion on broader topics – you guys clearly have both the opinions and the savvy. So let me know -post something on my blog if you like the idea http://is.gd/7RyX and we'll figure out how to make it happen. .