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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.'"
Maybe Program X will finally not be so slow.
It's a series of tubes; um cores.
Howabout a beowolf clust... I can't even do that one.
We will be scanning the CPU for Bad Cores, Instead of scanning the Hard Drive for Bad Sectors.
We are Dead Stars looking back Up at the Sky
64K cores is enough for anybody.
Many core could allow for slower clock speeds, cooler chips and quite computers.
Of course, An OS could be designed so different modular componts run on different cores.
Please remember even though they have been around for a while, the tools for multicores still aren't mature.
A horse is enough for anybody, and that's overkill for most people.
Expect to see 'core clusters' and 'core clouds' to handle problems that 'won't see any improvement'. These will be abstractions of cores into behaving like one fast core.
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No one will ever need more than 640 cores.