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Tilera To Release 100-Core Processor
angry tapir writes "Tilera has announced new general-purpose CPUs, including a 100-core chip. The two-year-old startup's Tile-GX series of chips are targeted at servers and appliances that execute Web-related functions such as indexing, Web search and video search. The Gx100 100-core chip will draw close to 55 watts of power at maximum performance."
... and just imagine a Beowulf cluster of them.
it does if you are carefully starting applications in power of two and designing your applications to use power of two threads.
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Their plan is to eventually confuse consumers by advertising "X KiloCores! (* KC = 1000 cores)" when everyone expects a KiloCore to be 1024 cores.
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But the more important question is...
Will it run Windows 7.
I know, I know, its the wrong questions, but the answer to the other one is always "yes".
100 cores... that means that my cpu will never go beyond '1% busy'
Whoa. If you change the source a little, you can enter 1000000 into the Maximum number of CPUs field! Linux is ready for up to a million cores.
640K cores is more than anyone will ever need.
No you really need 16,711,680 cores. So you have one core for every cell in a standard Excel 2003 sheet (Yea I know 2007 finally gave us more space)
So 65,536 rows by 255 columns. A CPU for each sell processing its own value. Excel may almost run fast.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
/proc/cpuinfo will become a small book. on the bright side, i guarantee 100 cores meets the draft requirements for 'windows 8 capable' status.
Good people go to bed earlier.
100-core is binary for quad core.
It is like 100 Dancing Hamsters in your CPU.
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Give it a break, shillboy
We've all seen more than enough paid endorsements of Microsoft's latest exercise in blandness.
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