nsane.forums Posted December 3, 2009 Share Posted December 3, 2009 New silicon is the wave of the future company claims Intel has been showing off a new type of multi-core processor that it claims will revolutionise the cloud computing and server farm business. Justin Rattner, head of Intel Labs and Intel's chief technology officer today showed off a 48-core chip, dubbed 48 IA, which uses a lattice of processing cores interlinked to share data, but individually controllable to save power. The chips are built around a 45nm process technology and consist of dual core clusters working in a power envelope of between 25 and 125W, a 3x improvement in performance per watt. An additional 24 routers are built onto the chip to manage data around the cores and the whole unit is designed to work with DDR3. "With a chip like this, you could imagine a cloud datacentre of the future which will be an order of magnitude more energy efficient than what exists today, saving significant resources on space and power costs," said Rattner. "Over time, I expect these advanced concepts to find their way into mainstream devices, just as advanced automotive technology such as electronic engine control, air bags and anti-lock braking eventually found their way into all cars." The chip is one of the first examples of what Intel says will be a new era in processor design, moving from multi-core to many core designs. Intel is enlisting the aid of the software community to develop code for the new chips and his signed up Microsoft, HP and Yahoo's Open Cirrus collaboration to port applications to the chip using Hadoop, a Java software framework. "Microsoft is partnering with Intel to explore new hardware and software architectures supporting next-generation client plus cloud applications," said Dan Reed, Microsoft's corporate vice president of Extreme Computing. "Our early research with the single chip cloud computer prototype has already identified many opportunities in intelligent resource management, system software design, programming models and tools, and future application scenarios. " View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizarre™ Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 I wonder what the price would be once this technology is finalized Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toshiro Posted December 5, 2009 Share Posted December 5, 2009 I wonder what the price would be once this technology is finalized Biz, just forget it... It's no use thinking of buying one :ph34r: :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizarre™ Posted December 5, 2009 Share Posted December 5, 2009 @Haantjuh:I have no plan of buying... just daydreaming :lmao: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobrPatty Posted December 5, 2009 Share Posted December 5, 2009 Could you imagine the speed of a server with 48 processors! Hard to comprehend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HX1 Posted December 5, 2009 Share Posted December 5, 2009 Technically it will not mean a thing unless the rest of the hardware changes as well..including hard drive and RAM.. motherboards so on.. ( and then we have studies on how computer use is effecting Attention Deficit Disorder.. ) Which means people will have to train themselves how to multi-task properly and observers will have to learn how differentiate between the two.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizarre™ Posted December 5, 2009 Share Posted December 5, 2009 @heath28m:ADHD? I wonder about that: Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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