Intel has come up with a 80 core processor and it is still on the research level.The best case in here is the Chip is running with about 175W and has a mechanism to sleep the the cores which doesn't need at that moment.You can find more details about this on http://www.intel.com/pressroom/kits/Teraflops/index.htm.
This board houses Intel’s 80-Core Teraflops Research Chip. The board contains working silicon and it is the world’s first programmable chip to achieve teraflops performance while consuming very little power.
Intel processors with two and four cores are here now. In the coming years, the number of cores on a microprocessor will continue to grow, launching an era of vastly more powerful computers. In order to provide the best energy efficiency and enable tomorrow’s emerging applications, the computing industry is shifting to improving performance by increasing the number of cores on future processors. With this in mind, Intel put in place its Tera-scale Computing Research Program, which is investigating the technologies necessary for Intel to build processors with tens or even hundreds of cores in the next 5-10 years, as well as the platforms and software around those processors.. There are more than 100 projects in this program being carried out by Intel researchers in labs around the world.
One of these projects is Intel’s Teraflops Research Chip. This chip is Intel’s first silicon tera-scale research prototype. It is the first programmable chip to deliver more than one trillion mathematical calculations per second (1 Teraflops) of performance while consuming very little power. This research project focuses on exploring new, energy-efficient designs for future multi-core chips, as well as approaches to interconnect and core-to-core communications. The research chip implements 80 simple cores, each containing two programmable floating point engines – the most ever to be integrated on a single chip. Floating point engines are used for accurate calculations, such as for graphics as well as financial and scientific modeling. In terms of circuit design, they are more complex than integer engines, which just process instructions.
This board houses Intel’s 80-Core Teraflops Research Chip. The board contains working silicon and it is the world’s first programmable chip to achieve teraflops performance while consuming very little power.
Intel processors with two and four cores are here now. In the coming years, the number of cores on a microprocessor will continue to grow, launching an era of vastly more powerful computers. In order to provide the best energy efficiency and enable tomorrow’s emerging applications, the computing industry is shifting to improving performance by increasing the number of cores on future processors. With this in mind, Intel put in place its Tera-scale Computing Research Program, which is investigating the technologies necessary for Intel to build processors with tens or even hundreds of cores in the next 5-10 years, as well as the platforms and software around those processors.. There are more than 100 projects in this program being carried out by Intel researchers in labs around the world.
One of these projects is Intel’s Teraflops Research Chip. This chip is Intel’s first silicon tera-scale research prototype. It is the first programmable chip to deliver more than one trillion mathematical calculations per second (1 Teraflops) of performance while consuming very little power. This research project focuses on exploring new, energy-efficient designs for future multi-core chips, as well as approaches to interconnect and core-to-core communications. The research chip implements 80 simple cores, each containing two programmable floating point engines – the most ever to be integrated on a single chip. Floating point engines are used for accurate calculations, such as for graphics as well as financial and scientific modeling. In terms of circuit design, they are more complex than integer engines, which just process instructions.
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