Core 80 Duo

tha · 2006-09-26, 21:32

On Slashdot there is a link to http://news.com.com/2100-1006_3-6119...9618&subj=news about an 80 core chip. Seems like we have to write off our new Core 2 Duo chips in just a few years. Like we are used to.

jinydu · 2006-09-27, 07:35

Incredible!

Quote:

Originally Posted by news.com

But the ultimate goal, as envisioned by Intel's terascale research prototype, is to enable a trillion floating-point operations per second--a teraflop--on a single chip. Ten years ago, the ASCI Red supercomputer at Sandia National Laboratories became the first supercomputer to deliver 1 teraflop using 4,510 computing nodes.

Intel's prototype uses 80 floating-point cores, each running at 3.16GHz, Justin Rattner, Intel's chief technology officer, said in a speech following Otellini's address.

1000 of these chips, and GIMPS would have petaflop computing power...

I wonder if that is really realistic though...

tha · 2006-09-27, 08:10

Actually the correct name would be "Core 2 Octaconta". Sorry about that.

retina · 2006-09-27, 10:37

Quote:

Actually the correct name would be "Core 2 Octaconta". Sorry about that.

Hehe, I'm sorry also, but the "Core 2" part might also be a little misleading. Perhaps "Core 0.25 Octaconta". (because the cpu is not a full Core2)

2006-09-26, 21:32	#1
tha Dec 2002 32F₁₆ Posts	Core 80 Duo On Slashdot there is a link to http://news.com.com/2100-1006_3-6119...9618&subj=news about an 80 core chip. Seems like we have to write off our new Core 2 Duo chips in just a few years. Like we are used to.

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2006-09-27, 08:10	#3
tha Dec 2002 815₁₀ Posts	Actually the correct name would be "Core 2 Octaconta". Sorry about that.