Intel's 32 Core, Quad-HyperThreading Super Chip

[Marcus Yam]

Four of these together can render some really nice Wolfenstein graphics.

Intel's 32 Core, Quad-HyperThreading Super Chip : Read more

 

[pbrigido]

um...wow? Anyone have a better adjective?

 

[enzo matrix]

I wonder what architecture each core uses. Is it based on atom? core? something different?

 

[mauller07]

Sounds nice, but whos gonna say it first.. i dare ya

 

[dxwarlock]

[citation][nom]mauller07[/nom]Sounds nice, but whos gonna say it first.. i dare ya[/citation]
ok i will
but can it play Wolfenstein?

 

[lukeiamyourfather]

Looks very exciting. Makes me wonder how well software can really scale with that many cores.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl's_law

 

[jimmysmitty]

Looks like Intel has been working hard on its MIC products since Terascale. Its a good idea and looks to bring a lot of new stuff to servers, HPCs and Cloud computing.

Can't wait to see this in action.

 

[scook9]

So they made a GPU? That is what it looks like to me lol. It just does not do graphics....it does everything.

 

[jellico]

This is an absolutely staggering level of computing power. It always amazes me to think that my first PC (not my first computer, mind you) was a 80386 25MHz with 4MB of RAM and a 100MB hard drive... and that was considered a pretty nice machine at the time. By comparison, however, it was a friggin stone axe by today's standards. I can't wait to see where the technology will be in the next 25 years!

 

[mauller07]

have to remember that each core is also only a fraction as powerfull as a current processor core (in a current pc it would be very under powered) in say quad core, septa core etc but its the number of them and threading of the program that makes up for the power

 

[kingofwacky]

[citation][nom]mauller07[/nom]Sounds nice, but whos gonna say it first.. i dare ya[/citation]
....but can it play............................................crysis?

 

[radiumburn]

Software just needs to catchup to hardware on multicore setups.. Well nonserver software that is..

 

[shaun_shaun]

any benchmarks ???

 

[Guest]

My DX2 can blow it out the water...

 

[koga73]

and then skynet was born

 

[eddieroolz]

It might be for the server but for the price of one, you can probably get several AMD Magny-Cours and a motherboard to boot.

 

[killerchickens]

Intel larrabee?

 

[Deleted member 217926]

ok i will
but can it play Wolfenstein?

No, no the real question is........can it play Crysis on max settings? :lol:

 

[tu_illegalamigo]

Great for parallel tasks, but mas programacion en paralela por favor! I think parallel computing is where everything is going to go next, due to certain limits being reached these days.

 

[kikireeki]

I think we have already seen a demo for its GFX capability and it sucks!

 

[awood28211]

I think multi-core processing will be more evident if given the ability to divide the cores into logical workloads. Must everything run on core1 that's single threaded until the OS decides it's too bogged down? I want core 30-32 to run my games, core 20-29 to run all my single core apps, dividing each processor to one per core unless I exceed all 9 cores in use. give me the 1st 5 cores for my OS and services. Put the rest into anything else that is multi-threaded. Let ME configure it. There is NOTHING that's more of a pet peeve to me than my machine using near 100% of 1 cpu and 2% of another all the while making every application I own come to a crawl....just because the OS thinks it knows how to handle it.

 

[mikem_90]

This is not your gaming computer. This is for clusters and big iron systems that need to process a LOT of threads and tasks at once.

Its interesting to see that Larrabee didn't get totally shelved, and was possibly an experiment leading into this. Maybe they were hoping for some discrete graphics products to come from it too, but possibly not.

 

[evillman]

I would like to see some video transcoding with this thing =D

 

[gm0n3y]

[citation][nom]jellico[/nom]This is an absolutely staggering level of computing power. It always amazes me to think that my first PC (not my first computer, mind you) was a 80386 25MHz with 4MB of RAM and a 100MB hard drive... and that was considered a pretty nice machine at the time. By comparison, however, it was a friggin stone axe by today's standards. I can't wait to see where the technology will be in the next 25 years![/citation]
Man, my first PC (a Mac actually) only had a 20MB hard drive. Its was color though (16bit I think).

 

[kalogagatya]

Multifrontal Massively Paralel FEM Solver FTW 😀D