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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. "
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Only 48 cores? I'd ask them to double that, but reasonably, 64 cores should be enough for anybody.
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because now school administrators only have to install SETI@HOME on 100 48-core computers instead of 5000 standard computers.
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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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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I don't have the foggiest idea.
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If you think big enough, you'll never have to do it.
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).