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48 Core Vega 2 in the Making
TobyKY76 writes to tell us The Inquirer is reporting that upstart Azul Systems is planning to integrate 48 cores on their next generation chip. From the article: "The first-generation Vega processor it designed has 24 cores but the firm expects to double that level of integration in systems generally available next year with the Vega 2, built on TSMC's 90nm process and squeezing in 812 million transistors. The progress means that Azul's Compute Appliances will offer up to 768-way symmetric multiprocessing."
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Yeah, yeah... my Karma is SUPER negative...
The box is a flat SMP - if a core misses in L2 it's the same cost to any piece of memory (or remote L2).
The cores are our own design, not MIPs, not ARM, etc. Simple, short in-order pipeline, decent caches (not huge) caches.
Power consumption is very low compared to the equivalent stack of P4 blades or other main-frame solution.
The first-gen box (368 cores) is about 2700 watts in an 11U rack mount.
Next-gen box isn't much bigger, nor draws very much more power (a little more of both I belive).