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Intel Shows 48-Core x86 Processor
Vigile writes "Intel unveiled a completely new processor design today the company is dubbing the 'Single-chip Cloud Computer' (but was previously codenamed Bangalore). Justin Rattner, the company's CTO, discussed the new product at a press event in Santa Clara and revealed some interesting information about the goals and design of the new CPU. While terascale processing has been discussed for some time, this new CPU is the first to integrate full IA x86 cores rather than simple floating point units. The 48 cores are set 2 to a 'tile' and each tile communicates with others via a 2D mesh network capable of 256 GB/s rather than a large cache structure. "
Intel an American company, with the American economy in the shape it's in, I am offended at the codename Bangalore.
As the last remaining operational Soong type android, I am offended by the name Bang-A-Lore.
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Your sigfile is offensive. What have ye got against the Scots?
To enable system administrators to say "Fuck it, we'll go to one blade!"
Only 48 cores? I'd ask them to double that, but reasonably, 64 cores should be enough for anybody.
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What have ye got against the Scots?
Damn Scots!
They ruined Scotland!
Does the fact that none* of the Apple Operating system names are of animals not native to America?
*After 5.1, which is "Kodiak" - which can be found in Alaska.
5.2 Mac OS X v10.0 "Cheetah"
5.3 Mac OS X v10.1 "Puma"
5.4 Mac OS X v10.2 "Jaguar"
5.5 Mac OS X v10.3 "Panther"
5.6 Mac OS X v10.4 "Tiger"
5.7 Mac OS X v10.5 "Leopard"
5.8 Mac OS X v10.6 "Snow Leopard
because now school administrators only have to install SETI@HOME on 100 48-core computers instead of 5000 standard computers.
With a code name like "Bangalore", I would expect it to be a RISC based CPU that's very slow, requires instructions to be repeated and confirmed, and late to service any interrupts.
Manticore. Mmm. Manticore... Jessica Alba? I'll cast my vote for manticore any day of the week with Jessica Alba in there... [Dark Angel (Comic/Show) references? Yes, I went there... I'll do it again, too!] Personally, though, I think 48 cores in one proc are enough to float my boat... Then, too, so could Ms. Alba... --Stak
Holy happy hippy crap!
Could you imagine a Beowulf cluster of Beowul.... *head explodes*
This new Cloud processor should create synergies with my SOA Portal system and allow me to deploy Enterprise B2B Push based Web 2.0 technologies!
Why can't it just be cloudy?
sorry.
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All of them except windows.
Are you making up imaginary animals again?
Why, without your clothes, you're naked, Miss Dudley!
There, fixed that for you.
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That was an offshoot technology. They've finally got all the bugs ironed out and the CPU is much less prone to "uncontrolled exothermic reactions" then it use to be.
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It's like this: It's hot and loud and there's so many cores.
As in The Big Bang Theory season 3 episode 4: "I don't want to go to India. It's hot and loud and there's so many people. You have no idea, they're everywhere."
*head asplodes*
There, fixed that for you.
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Insightful WTF? If you get offended that easily, you'd better:
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Bow-ties are cool.
I refuse to call a Mountain Lion a Puma.
Just don't call a Warthog a Puma. Sarge doesn't like that.
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I don't have the foggiest idea.
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If you think big enough, you'll never have to do it.
Is if some of the cores are only allowed to perform menial tasks (they were born that way) and the rest of the cores will only do something if you slip them a little cash. Oh, and code with comments doesn't run.
I can't wait to run Drizzle on it.
> They called it Bangalore because they are going to farm out your processes.
To Maine..??
(Oh, sorry, that's Bangor. My bad!)
Uh, no. That's Bang-ah, Maine. Bangor is a Myth.
I think it's more likely we'll see kibicores and mebicores.
Word gets pretty slow when you hit a hundred pages with figures on a Core Duo, but you could always just use LaTeX or a file per chapter. I managed to get my dissertation done with just two cores and my parents managed with a typewriter (although those were masters, not PhDs).
Cirrusly?