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Intel Says to Prepare For "Thousands of Cores"
Impy the Impiuos Imp writes to tell us that in a recent statement Intel has revealed their plans for the future and it goes well beyond the traditional processor model. Suggesting developers start thinking about tens, hundreds, or even thousand or cores, it seems Intel is pushing for a massive evolution in the way processing is handled. "Now, however, Intel is increasingly 'discussing how to scale performance to core counts that we aren't yet shipping...Dozens, hundreds, and even thousands of cores are not unusual design points around which the conversations meander,' [Anwar Ghuloum, a principal engineer with Intel's Microprocessor Technology Lab] said. He says that the more radical programming path to tap into many processing cores 'presents the "opportunity" for a major refactoring of their code base, including changes in languages, libraries, and engineering methodologies and conventions they've adhered to for (often) most of the their software's existence.'"
- and - oh my God - it's full of cores!
It's hard to believe that's how Micronians are made. Why don't we see it right now by having you both kiss one another?
As if Oracle licensing wasn't complicated enough already...
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My friends and I have lots of conversations about girls, how to get girls, how to please girls. However until anything other than idle talk actually happens this goes into the "wouldn't it be nice" category
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Heck, my original computer had 229376 cores. They were arranged in 28k 16 bit words.
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Sure! 64 cores should be enough for anybody!
My friends and I have lots of conversations about girls, how to get girls, how to please girls.
What, haven't you guys heard of simulation?
In the Soviet Union
Oh wait... the Soviet Union already broke into smaller cores.
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oh nevermind, what's the point?
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OVER 9000!!!!!!11111one
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Hi. I make processors. I know a lot about processors. I think a big change is coming to processors. I think you should learn to use a lot of processors. A whole lot of processors. You need more processors. Oh, and did I tell you I make processors?
They have been simulating it, that's why he said "My friends and I". *shudders*
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Is it bad that my first thought when I saw this was: "But, my code already generates thousands of cores..."
I can break a password protected Excel file in 30 hours max with this computer, and a 10000 core chip might reduce this to 43 seconds, but other than that, what difference is it going to make?
29 hours 59 minutes 17 seconds?
Stop Computers/Cars Analogies on S
He meant 640k CORES should be enough for anybody.