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The Father of Multi-Core Chips Talks Shop

Posted by timothy on from the green-onion-layered-beneath-yogurt dept.

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."

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  1. That's a lot of systems. by Cheesebisquit · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's a lot of core systems.

    1. Re:That's a lot of systems. by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 2, Funny

      "Sun Microsystems's Niagra" And they decided to, uhm, "increase their performance" as well...

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  2. Re:The Future Is Non-Algorithmic by hostyle · · Score: 3, Funny

    Indeed. Its turtles all the way down.

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  3. Re:Multi-core chips will be constrained by by pjt33 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  4. Re:The Future Is Non-Algorithmic by hostyle · · Score: 2, Funny

    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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