According to: http://techreport.com/articles.x/19514 the peak FLOP should be the same between a BD 'module' and a SNB 'core' if the BD is using FMA4/AVX and the SNB is using plain AVX.

To get maximum performance, you're going to have to code in assembly or use a library that's been coded that way. I expect programs like Prime95 will be first adopters of this.

Supposedly, Haswell (the full tick after IVB) will have FMA3/AVX which should double the FLOP rate and surpass BD, but that's some time out, so we'll have to see what BD does in the mean time. By then, we could see a shrink of BD with more 'modules' or clock speed improvements. Best to worry about those eggs at least until they're laid if not hatched.

Your opinion of the sensability of the term changes nothing. That is the term and it has a meaning. Noone asserted that it was a connection between spatially separate 'leaf' nodes, so your point is moot. You're inventing an arguement to support something that wasn't asserted in the first place.

Yes, storage is getting cheaper per unit, lower power per unit, and denser per unit. I can only assume you're not aware of Kryder's Law. Yes, it's not by our man Gordon, but it's the same kind of power law relation. It's inaccurate to say that Moores law has 'absolutely nothing to do with ...' when it describes the same kind of relationship between cost/density/price/power use.

I'd suggest you learn a bit more about statistics before you make the assertions that you have with regards to the growing diversity of Netflix's customer base and the movies they serve to them. For one, research the term erlang and reassess your comments in that light.

Please stop before you embarras yourself any further.

"Last Mile" is an industry term to mean the connection between an ISP and their customers. It's common usage and not a literal expression. Yes, it's different for DSL and cable, but the point of the term is that the network fans out near the leafs and the cross section bandwidth gets very large. Please stop trying to read anything else into it.

True, caching doesn't eliminate long haul bandwidth, but it can lower it by several orders of magnitude, which is sufficient to make it neglegable. Though space in data centers is expensive, data storage gets cheaper, denser, and lower power with time. See 'Moores Law'. Bits get cheaper to store and transmit with time.

As the supply of movies gets more diverse and so does the demand for them, different layers of the caching will bear the burder, but, the same rules still apply--data gets cheaper to store and transmit with time.