Star MIT Startup Raises Multicore Bar with New 64-Core CPU
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 20th Aug 2007 19:20 UTC
Hardware, Embedded Systems "A new startup out of MIT emerged from stealth mode today to announce that they're shipping a 64-core processor for the embedded market. The company, called Tilera, was founded by Dr. Anat Agarwal, the MIT professor behind the famous and venerable Raw project on which Tilera's first product, the TILE64 processor, is based. Tilera's director of marketing, Bob Dowd, told Ars that TILE64 represents a "sea change in the computing industry", and the company's CEO isn't shy about pitching the chip as the "first significant new chip architectural development in a decade". So let's take an initial look at what was announced about TILE64 today, with further information to follow as it becomes available."
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RE: Very Interesting
by hobgoblin on Mon 20th Aug 2007 20:01 UTC in reply to "Very Interesting "
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2005-07-06

even if one can toss one program or task pr "core" things get interesting. have you looked into something like the windows task manager and looked at the number of stuff thats running the background on a average desktop?

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RE[2]: Very Interesting
by Wes Felter on Mon 20th Aug 2007 20:10 in reply to "RE: Very Interesting "
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2005-11-15

Too bad those threads aren't running at the same time.

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RE[3]: Very Interesting
by Bending Unit on Mon 20th Aug 2007 20:44 in reply to "RE[2]: Very Interesting "
Bending Unit Member since:
2005-07-06

Yes, I guess that was why he brought it up.

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RE[3]: Very Interesting
by modmans2ndcoming on Tue 21st Aug 2007 01:21 in reply to "RE[2]: Very Interesting "
modmans2ndcoming Member since:
2005-11-09

Umm... right... they are not running at the same time BECAUSE you have one core (prior to multicore CPUs).

With multicore CPUs, windows can barf on a process for a while but still run the machine quite well simply for the fact that more than one process can execute during the same processing cycle.

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RE[2]: Very Interesting
by SomeGuy on Mon 20th Aug 2007 21:14 in reply to "RE: Very Interesting "
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2006-03-20

Yes, and if you look at a *nix system, there's a metric called "load average", which measures the number of processes trying to run concurrently.

This number is typically very low, since usually the background processes are waiting for input and _not_ running at once.

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