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English term or phrase:
floating point silicon
French translation:
(sous-)circuits à virgule flottante
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Anne-Sophie Aboké
Mar 25, 2009 21:06
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floating point silicon
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Bonsoir,
Connaissez-vous la traduction de "floating point silicon" dans le contexte suivant :
A database query, which doesn't use any of the processor’s floating point silicon, so it can take advantage of that thermal headroom and increase the frequency of all 4 cores.
j'ai virgule flottante pour floating point et silicium pour silico mais j'ai du mal à lier les deux (silicium en virgule flottante, silicium avec arithmétique à virgule flottante ?)
Merci
Connaissez-vous la traduction de "floating point silicon" dans le contexte suivant :
A database query, which doesn't use any of the processor’s floating point silicon, so it can take advantage of that thermal headroom and increase the frequency of all 4 cores.
j'ai virgule flottante pour floating point et silicium pour silico mais j'ai du mal à lier les deux (silicium en virgule flottante, silicium avec arithmétique à virgule flottante ?)
Merci
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Martin Cassell
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Martin Cassell
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(sous-)circuits à virgule flottante
".. .qui n'utilise aucun des circuits à v. f. ..."
The point is that by avoiding any activity in the FPU (floating point unit/units) of the processor, less heat is generated.
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Note added at 11 hrs (2009-03-26 09:00:58 GMT)
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To explain the «acrobatie» more fully:
The main processor (CPU) in a typical computer contains numerous functionally separate sub-units. An example is the FPU (floating point unit), which handles floating-point calculations.
If you are certain that the FPU is inactive and therefore not producing heat, there will be a margin ("thermal headroom") for the rest of the processor to run faster (and therefore hotter) than normal without exceeding safe limits. (In fact this text refers to four processors, or "cores".)
The point is that by avoiding any activity in the FPU (floating point unit/units) of the processor, less heat is generated.
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Note added at 11 hrs (2009-03-26 09:00:58 GMT)
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To explain the «acrobatie» more fully:
The main processor (CPU) in a typical computer contains numerous functionally separate sub-units. An example is the FPU (floating point unit), which handles floating-point calculations.
If you are certain that the FPU is inactive and therefore not producing heat, there will be a margin ("thermal headroom") for the rest of the processor to run faster (and therefore hotter) than normal without exceeding safe limits. (In fact this text refers to four processors, or "cores".)
Peer comment(s):
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Arnold T.
: Ce genre d'acrobaties étaient courantes il y a 40 ans; je suis surpris qu'on s'y adonne encore. Juste pour le plaisir peut-être, ou pour se donner un genre ...
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merci ! // agree entirely with your observations, too: all a bit unnecessary nowadays
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Oliver Walter
: I agree. "Floating point silicon" is a (informal) name for the part of the silicon (i.e. processor chip) that performs the floating-point arithmetic operations.
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thanks Oliver
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Eric Le Carre
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merci Eric
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Platary (X)
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merci Olivier
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Ghislaine CATHENOD
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merci Ghislaine
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januschpoter
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merci Janusch
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atche84
: Asker's problem, not yours nor mine. Sometimes it is wise to play the fool to clear up the trouble. I've always hated 'acrobatic' writers and people trying to explain/translate things they ignore completely
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Comment: "Merci Martin"
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