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Intel working on a 48-core computer
Intel recently announced a single-chip computer that will hold 48 cores. The chip is called a single-chip cloud computer (SCC) because it resembles cloud datacenters.
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Tera-scale Computing Research Program
The Intel® Tera-scale Computing Research Program is a worldwide effort to advance computing technology for the next decade. future applications more compelling and immersive.
"Tera" means 1 trillion, or 1,000,000,000,000. Our vision is to create platforms capable performing of trillions of calculations per second (teraflops) on trillions of bytes of data (terabytes).
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Single-chip Cloud Computer
Inside the Single-chip Cloud Computer
The name “Single-chip Cloud Computer” reflects the fact that the architecture resembles a scalable cluster of computers such as you would find in a cloud, integrated into silicon.
The research chip features:
- 24 “tiles” with two IA cores per tile
- A 24-router mesh network with 256 GB/s bisection bandwidth
- 4 integrated DDR3 memory controllers
- Hardware support for message-passing
In a sense, the SCC is a microcosm of cloud datacenter. Each core can run a separate OS and software stack and act like an individual compute node that communicates with other compute nodes over a packet-based network.
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- Intel working on a 48-core computer
- Tera-scale Computing Research Program
- Single-chip Cloud Computer
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