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Four Core Processor to Bring Tera Ops

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the whole-lotta-ops dept.

panhandler writes "As reported at CNet and the Austin American Statesman, researchers at UT are working with IBM on a new CPU architecture called TRIPS (Tera-op Reliable Intelligently adaptive Processing System). According to IBM, 'at the heart of the TRIPS architecture is a new concept called 'block-oriented execution"' which will result in a processor capable of executing more than 1 trillion operations per second."

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  1. Wow... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Imagine a Beowolf cluster of these...

  2. Re:Great.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Seriously, though, this will help break all the clustering records, provided we can come up with faster interconnects by then.

    so, what you're really saying then is: "imagine a beowulf cluster of these"?

  3. But what... by Channard · · Score: -1, Redundant

    ... FPS does it get in Quake 3 Benchmarks? Slashdot Benchmarkers must be told.

  4. The promise of the iConomy fulfilled by proverbialcow · · Score: -1, Redundant

    At last, a machine capable of rendering pr0n in real-time of my very own!

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