Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Intel To Ship 48-Core Test Systems To Researchers

Posted by timothy on from the but-one-link's-enough-really dept.

MojoKid writes "Just when you thought your 6-core chip was the fastest processor on the planet, Intel announces plans to ship systems equipped with an experimental 48-core CPU to a handful of lucky researchers sometime by the end of the second quarter. The 48 cores are arranged with multiple connect points in a serial mesh network to transfer data between cores. Each core also has on-chip buffers to instantly exchange data in parallel across all cores. According to Sean Koehl, technology evangelist with Intel Labs, the chip only draws between 25 and 125 watts."

13 of 135 comments (clear)

  1. I just have to ask by toygeek · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can you imagine a *Beowulf cluster* of these things!? Think about the possibilities!

    --
    Nobodies Prefect
    Tidbits for Techs Technology Blog
    1. Re:I just have to ask by MrMr · · Score: 4, Funny

      fracture of a 10mm cube of rock on the atomic scale
      Ha, I can do that in less than a second, with my serial mallet.

    2. Re:I just have to ask by urusan · · Score: 3, Funny

      It certainly beats the 10^13 years it would take with a Jaguar!

    3. Re:I just have to ask by WrongSizeGlass · · Score: 4, Funny

      How might I become one of Intel's select few to trial these chips? I can certainly think of ways to keep them warm!

      Please Intel please! ;)

      Well, posting as AC certainly will help your chances.

    4. Re:I just have to ask by leromarinvit · · Score: 3, Funny

      fracture of a 10mm cube of rock on the atomic scale
      Ha, I can do that in less than a second, with my serial mallet.

      You left out an important detail: 1 sec of fracture of a 10mm cube of rock on the atomic scale

      Whoa! Chuck Norris has a Slashdot account?

      --
      Proud member of the Ferengi Socialist Party.
  2. 640 C (cores) should be enough for everybody by youn · · Score: 5, Funny

    maybe that's what bill gates meant when he said 640K should be enough... K as in Core .. it was a spelling mistake;)

    --
    Never antropomorphize computers, they do not like that :p
    1. Re: 640 C (cores) should be enough for everybody by selven · · Score: 3, Funny

      With the kinds of things Bill Gates did, I don't know if even 640' C would be enough.

    2. Re: 640 C (cores) should be enough for everybody by TeknoHog · · Score: 2, Funny

      Too bad multiprocessing did not exist back then, as Intel had yet to invent the Core.

      --
      Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
    3. Re: 640 C (cores) should be enough for everybody by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Nah - you'd still need 639 of them to run antivirus.

  3. Video reminds me of ... by LoudMusic · · Score: 3, Funny

    3DFX, so powerful it's kind of ridiculous.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmaYH1F6kho

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldiYYJNnQUk

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o72T8qQr7GE

    Great ad campaign.

    --
    No sig for you. YOU GET NO SIG!
  4. Chip trial by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hi,

    I'm an engineer at Intel and we are looking for a few more candidates to test our 48-core chips. Your scientific computing project sounds like a perfect fit for our trial. Please contact me (see my account info for my email address) and we'll get you in the program.

    Cheers!

  5. Re:Multiprocessing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Mainframe, VAX, Supercomputer had Multiprocessing at the time?

    No

    Intel actually developed the first multi-core CPU and multi-processor systems at the behest of Steve Jobs as a condition for migrating OSX to the x86 platform. Further, it is speculated on good authority that Jobs personally headed up a crack engineering team sent to Intel expressly for the purpose of transitioning their fabs from the netburst to the core architecture. Seriously, study and learn.

    Posted anonymously from my iPad at the Starbucks in Cupertino. You know the one.

  6. Re:Larrabee by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's not a particularly auspicious name for a chip. I'd assume that a "Bangalore" CPU would promise that it could get the work done twice as fast for half as much money due to "parallel architecture" - but you'd launch a program, only to discover that it actually took 10x as long, every instruction needed to be told *exactly* what to do, and the results were so full of errors that it took an additional non-Bangalore CPU working full time just to get things right.