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Intel Shows Off 80-core Processor

Posted by Zonk on from the next-up-a-skillion-core-system dept.

thejakebrain writes "Intel has built its 80-core processor as part of a research project, but don't expect it on your desktop any time soon. The company's CTO, Justin Rattner, held a demonstration of the chip for a group of reports last week. Intel will be presenting a paper on the project at the International Solid State Circuits Conference in San Francisco this week. 'The chip is capable of producing 1 trillion floating-point operations per second, known as a teraflop. That's a level of performance that required 2,500 square feet of large computers a decade ago. Intel first disclosed it had built a prototype 80-core processor during last fall's Intel Developer Forum, when CEO Paul Otellini promised to deliver the chip within five years.'" Update: 06/01 14:37 GMT by Z : This article is about four months old. We discussed this briefly last year, but search didn't show that we discussed in February.

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  1. ummm.... by mstahl · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Imagine a beowulf cluster of these?

  2. Re:It may be known as "a teraflop", but... by johnw · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The measurement is "FLOPS". Floating Point Operations Per Second. It's an acronym. If we're going to be pedantic, that would be FPOPS.
  3. Re:It may be known as "a teraflop", but... by pato101 · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Successive approximations. If you are right, it would be, then:
    FLoating point OPeration(S) per second

    Now, I don't press the Preview button and we can keep going on :-P