Designer Puts 96 Cores On Single Chip

KingFish

Chip designer ClearSpeed has put 96 computing cores onto a single semiconductor, as the race to secure a niche in the emerging market for co-processors heats up.

Code-named Avebury, the company's upcoming chip contains 96 separate internal units tuned for doing particular types of math problems. Inserted into Intel- or Advanced Micro Device-based servers, Avebury will handle the repetitive, computational grunt work involved in preparing a study on how a single protein will react with thousands of others or a financial analysis that charts how slight changes in a stock portfolio could affect a person's financial position over the course of several years. "This allows for local, high-performance computing, so technical users can complete their work on a small cluster or their desktop," said David Hoff, director of technical marketing at ClearSpeed, which has offices in Los Gatos, Calif., and Bristol, England. Chips that help a computer's main microprocessors perform specific types of math problems are becoming a big business once again, decades after companies like Intel integrated these chips into main microprocessors to cut costs.

Source: ZDNet

primesuspect

Yes!

http://www.short-media.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4840

This will change many things, my friends.... Many things.....

Sputnik

i thought co-processors were a thing of the past (circa 386 days).... sound like we're moving in the right direction though i suppose....