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November 22, 2010 - 2:33 P.M.
Awesome! 1,000 cores on a chip ... one tiny catch
- TAGS:enterprise, Insider Content, INTC, Intel, kilocore, parallel programming, SCC, supercomputer
- IT TOPICS:Cloud Computing, Development, Emerging Technology, Enterprise Apps, Linux & Unix, Mainframes & Supercomputers, Servers, Web Apps
By Richi Jennings. November 22, 2010.
How do you fancy a 1,000-core processor in your next PC? Intel's proud to announce that it's working on one. However, you might not actually want it, as we'll see in The Long View...
As Joab Jackson reports from the Big Easy, Intel researchers are mulling the idea of a processor with 1,000 cores:
The architecture for the ... Single Chip Cloud Computer (SCC) processor is "arbitrarily scalable," said Intel researcher Timothy Mattson. ... Only after 1,000 cores or so, the diameter of ... the on-chip network ... would negatively impact performance.
Sounds amazing, right? Well, yes, but the devil's in the details.
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