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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. Re:The Future Is Non-Algorithmic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That strikes me as crackpottery. The stuff that link describes as "nonalgorithmic" is also easily algorithmic, just in a process calculus.
    And guess what? Non-kooks in the compsci community are busily working on process calculi and languages or language-facilities built around them.

  2. 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.