Intel to Ship Experimental Chips With 48 Cores

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This is more likely for AI applications. It's parallel structure including the router interconnect architechture would be ideal for parallel programming applications required in neural networks and anything really that could be done better using parallel streams of information processing. I'd love to see how the I/O's are connected. You would be able to do so much parallel processing of sensor information. It could analyze so much! You actually want a 3GHz system! Why!! this 1GHz systems not even being used yet! Multi-tasking operating systems have been trying to simulate this thing since the days of DOS. I would personally love to work with this thing. It would be my dream job/year if I could take a masters and just develope... this will be used in the future for some interesting creations. I would also much rather this technology being implemented into applications over the Cloud. Local is a much better idea :). This thing just blew my mind
 
All the people thinking gaming or other typical computer tasks need to stop. This thing is not x86 (x64), that should be obvious in its clock speed and design. Its a RISC cpu specifically designed for huge parallel operation, an older CPU would slaughter this in any gaming.

No this baby is designed for something much bigger. AI, scientific research, doing 3D PIC simulations of a nuclear reaction (currently nothing we have is capable of doing that in less then a day or three). You take a bunch of these and connect them all together in a Unix style OS, then custom design programs for them that run batch processing jobs. Feed it data and let it work its magic.
 
48 cores is nothing current technology the stuff that public sector does not see are 200 core cpu's that exist not for public use that are contracted out.
There are non x86-x64 cpu's out there with 100 cores that are created by tilera number of cores in cpu's are expanding due to the barrier that technology has hit in pure speed for a single cpu, more cores is the way to go true parallel multitasking cannot be done using windows yet, and handles multiple cores poorly.
 
[citation][nom]palladin9479[/nom]All the people thinking gaming or other typical computer tasks need to stop. This thing is not x86 (x64), that should be obvious in its clock speed and design. Its a RISC cpu specifically designed for huge parallel operation, an older CPU would slaughter this in any gaming.No this baby is designed for something much bigger. AI, scientific research, doing 3D PIC simulations of a nuclear reaction (currently nothing we have is capable of doing that in less then a day or three). You take a bunch of these and connect them all together in a Unix style OS, then custom design programs for them that run batch processing jobs. Feed it data and let it work its magic.[/citation]

However, it's been stated it does run x86 applications, and considering the very first comment by the author of the article... It's pretty obvious what people were going to think about anyway.

And why not some typical computer tasks? For example, I think asking whether these 48 cores could outstrip, say, a GTX 295 using CUDA in video encoding would be interesting.
 
One thing to keep in mind is all cores are not created equal. This contains 48 really shitty cores. 48 cores along the lines of an Intel atom chip, not 48 i7 cores.

Guess what guys! My HD 5770 has 800 programmable cores, while an HD 5870 has 1600 cores. Individually these cores are the complete shits, and couldn't run Microsoft word.
 
[citation][nom]MrHectorEric[/nom]I know it's not for desktops, but it's fun to imagine putting this in your rig, opening up the task manager, and then trying to max all the cores.[/citation]

Well just use an autodesk maya or 3d Max find a complex file with lots of lighting and reflections and you will max it at least for 4-5 minutes.

I want one of those 🙁 to test it on rendering give me one Intel!!! :)

my quad 2.8Gh does 20-22 minutes per frame for what i am rendering right now!!!!
 
Probably be great for folding/WCG/BOINC applications, a couple of power sipping GPUs on board your comp and you could have some serious distributed computing using that. Kinda cool.
 
[citation][nom]LATTEH[/nom]yes but can it play shattered horizon?[/citation]
Only on Vista or Win7.

I think it could play Duke Nukem, forever.

Jokes aside, I just marvel at this sort of tech. It really is amazing when you look back at where we were 10, 20, or 30 years ago. Computing and related technologies have come very far in a relatively short time.
 
There is a few apps out there that could max this cpu out very easily if coded to use that many threads such as encoding videos. Imagine the next bloated GTA game that ends up even bringing this cpu to it limits.
 
they will only be able to show their true power once massively parallel programs are written to take advantage of the entire chip as i cant see each individual core being a contender to any current processor cores in terms or real throughput in single threaded situations, especially looking at the size of the chips in the pictures, they look roughly the size if not smaller then a current quad core die
 
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