Researchers Create CPU With 1,000 Cores

[Marcus Yam]

Does something like this even need Hyperthreading?

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[buddhav1]

cool story bro

 

[henydiah]

1000 core fastest chip in the world ! maybe.. yes

 

[alhanelem]

overkill much?

 

[dEAne]

When that particular 1,000 cores arrived we will never talk about overclocking anymore.

 

[henydiah]

yeach we can not imagine, how much power needed ???

 

[nua2]

I tought an FPGA had higher leak current compared to a Application specific IC.If they can fit 1000 in a FPGA probably they could fit 1500 in a ASIC...

On http://opencores.org/project,or1k they have an opensource CPU for FPGA.

 

[bluekoala]

[citation][nom]alhanelem[/nom]overkill much?[/citation]
Not overkill at all. Just highly scalable. It's not because don't yet know what to do with it that it's too much. Plus if this chip ends up being really cheap with a low power consumption, you could have one in a smart phone and not have to upgrade for CPU power.

I have 800 stream processors in my HD4850. It's a nice step forward to have 1000 CPU cores in a chip.

But what I'm really looking forward to is AMD's fusion cores

 

[nevertell]

They say it's power efficient.

Well, how efficient is it ?

 

[spellbinder2050]

Will today's software even utilize that much computing power?

Also, what about bottlenecks? i.e. ram and disk.

 

[Horhe]

FPGAs are not used within standard computers because they are fairly difficult to program

You can say that again! It took me a week to make one to display some text on a LCD screen (it was the first time I programmed a FPGA).

I knew that FPGAs are very flexible, but I never knew that they are so powerful.

 

[kingnoobe]

No you normal software will not run this. Which is why it isn't mainstream. This is the type of stuff that's made for a certain job. And I'm sure who ever would use something like this would use the best ram, fastest hhd, etc..

 

[Scanlia]

I want an FPGA computer! but pre-programmed with windows please!

 

[FloKid]

Sounds like a job for Intel and AMD

 

[alyoshka]

AWESOME..............
errrrrrrrr, do we get to keep the engineering sample??
I want one that for sure, just the thought of having a 1000 cores makes me think faster , I really wouldn't be worried if it was really slow.... even if apps weren't able to use the 996 cores I wouldn't care less.... this is a just gotta have kinda thing....
AWESOME once again......

 

[deadheadbob87]

That's nice. Will it play Crysis?

 

[warmon6]

[citation][nom]dEAne[/nom]When that particular 1,000 cores arrived we will never talk about overclocking anymore.[/citation]

You know thats a lie.

 

[g00fysmiley]

programers are having a hard enough time threading within 2 3 or even 4 cores... writing a program to utilise this chip to its fullest has got to be difficult to say the least

 

[Guest]

The number of cores alone does not mean too much. There were several concepts even 10 years ago. The maximum I know was 4096. The whole structure and programming possibilities are far more important.

 

[hardcore_gamer]

FPGAs are programmable at the hardware level. Thats why they are very flexible.We can even change half of these CPU cores to GPU cores when we want to play games

 

[WyomingKnott]

[citation][nom]deadheadbob87[/nom]That's nice. Will it play Crysis?[/citation]
Boy, are you lucky that the plus one / minus one feature is broken.

 

[ajcroteau]

[citation][nom]deadheadbob87[/nom]That's nice. Will it play Crysis?[/citation]

Probably, but 1 milli-second after you click start, you've won the game...

 

[ProDigit10]

looks like a gpu processor to me.

 

[Onus]

The applications to neural nets, pattern recognition, machine intelligence, etc. are potentially astounding. This is a piece of a robot brain.

 

[punnar]

I think they had servers or clusters in mind when they built this and not for home use.