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Tilera To Release 100-Core Processor

Posted by timothy on from the and-then-they-stopped-counting dept.

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."

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  1. Re:This is great ! by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    By the way I just typed "make menuconfig" and it wiil let you enter a number up to 512 in the "Maximum number of CPUs" field, so the Linux kernel seems ready for up to 512 CPUs (or cores, they are handled the same way by Linux it seems) as far I can tell by this simple test. Entering a number greater than 512 gives the "You have made an invalid entry" message

    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.

    If you change the code a little more, when I enter a number that's too high for menuconfig, it says "We're not talking about your penis size, Holmes"