"We get questions along the lines of, 'What could you possibly run that needs 128 cores on a laptop?,'" Patterson told HPCwire. "This reminds me of the story of the patent examiner in 1870 who decided that everything of importance had been invented, so he quit his job to look for something permanent. Or that 640KB ought to be enough memory for PCs. We think the most exciting software has yet to be written, and it's going to be highly parallel."