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The Father of Multi-Core Chips Talks Shop
pacopico writes "Stanford professor Kunle Olukotun designed the first mainstream multi-core chip, crafting what would become Sun Microsystems's Niagra product. Now, he's heading up Stanford's Pervasive Parallelism Lab where researchers are looking at 100s of core systems that might power robots, 3-D virtual worlds and insanely big server applications. The Register just interviewed Olukotun about this work and the future of multi-core chips. Weird and interesting stuff."
That's a lot of core systems.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of ... oh wait
This is slashdot, you _CAN'T_ post an article that can't be read! timothy, what are you thinking?
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...oh, you know how this one is supposed to go.
Indeed. Its turtles all the way down.
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Three - three massive issues! Leakage, interference between that many components in one space, of course heat dissipation, and having a single, expensive, point of failure. Wait, I'll come in again.
Sorry about your turtle, John. We'll get you a new one. Or maybe some Japanese Fighting Fish? They are fun until they start programming your VCR and recording Leno.
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About .01% of the worlds computers need the kind of power that a CPU with more then say 4 cores provide.
Yes but now that we can't buy XP any more, the penetration of Vista is sure to grow.