Futuristic Intel Chip Could Reshape How Computers are Built

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http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20091202comp_sm.htm

Futuristic Intel Chip Could Reshape How Computers are Built, Consumers Interact with Their PCs and Personal Devices...

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PC Perspective - Intel Shows 48-core x86 Processor as Single-chip Cloud Computer
http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=825

[rambaldi]

I saw this. I am a bit sceptical about it right now. For a similar system larrabee there is an estimated 300W draw for 48 x86 cores. I am also think the new interconnect architecture is rather dubious with the reworking of caching. If it works then awesome but I see it being a bottleneck for many applications

[y eye]

 
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The Barrelfish Operating System

"Barrelfish is a new research operating system being built from scratch in a collaboration between ETH Zurich in Switzerland and Microsoft Research Cambridge in the UK. We are exploring how to structure an OS for future multi- and many-core systems. We are motivated by two closely related trends in hardware design: first, the rapidly growing number of cores, which leads to a scalability challenge, and second, the increasing diversity in computer hardware, requiring the OS to manage and exploit heterogeneous hardware resources."
http://www.barrelfish.org/

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Update: 31 May10

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/ff_intc_201005.html