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I am getting tired of buying a computer and it being outdated in weeks but I guess if software makers aren't taking advantage of the updated processors it really is insignificant. It makes sense to buy a computer currently using available software not what software may or may not be available.]]>Feb 11th 2007 7:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/11/intel-demonstrates-80-core-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/11/intel-demonstrates-80-core-processor/"Sounds really good so far but wouldn't multi-cores help with video processing speed? To import High Def video takes a alot of processor power. This should take advantage over the multi-core processors. I'd like to see how much more effiecient it is. Rendering is also processor intensive. What about BUS speed? How will that play out in multi-core processors?"

Somewhat, but your mbiggets problem is throughput, not CPU speed. Getting the frames into the box, then shuffling them around is a killer. Sure CPUs help a lot, but you need to have really fast RAM and a raid array.

You think you have problems, try rendering 3D and compositing in HD or film res!]]>Feb 12th 2007 6:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/11/intel-demonstrates-80-core-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/11/intel-demonstrates-80-core-processor/
When I see chips like this and the Cell two things come to mind supercomputers and graphics. With graphics cards and Direct X moving to being programmable I expect we are going to start seeing GPU's which use a lot of cores instead of the current setup. Supercomputers don't need to have a huge instruction set or anything really complex normally they just need the ability to do a lot of calculations quickly simple cores like this would be perfect for the job.]]>Feb 11th 2007 7:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/11/intel-demonstrates-80-core-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/11/intel-demonstrates-80-core-processor/Feb 11th 2007 8:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/11/intel-demonstrates-80-core-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/11/intel-demonstrates-80-core-processor/Feb 11th 2007 8:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/11/intel-demonstrates-80-core-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/11/intel-demonstrates-80-core-processor/
Not likely -- remember that pretty much all current OS's are multitasking. What happens when the FPS finishes its execution time and another application executes for a time -- does that second app get to reprogram the FPGA every time too? And back again?

Constant reconfiguration doesn't seem too efficient to me, not to mention the added software complexity.

For the story itself:

Five years is not going to be enough for this. We don't even have adequate tools to write such massively parallel programs with ease and designing/building such tools could well take that long (or longer). Even if we end up with compilers capable of automating much of the hassle (unlikely -- I'm expecting some app-level changes, maybe even specialist programming languages), debugging a highly parallel system can be an absolute nightmare.

You can't rely on the OS to take advantage of that many cores automatically either, as (at least at present) I'm sure they just move processes/threads onto different cores. If you just have one or two running applications this will not work so well unless the apps are designed specially, etc... You see this now with some older (faster) single-core processors still outperforming their dual-core brethren at some tasks.]]>Feb 11th 2007 8:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/11/intel-demonstrates-80-core-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/11/intel-demonstrates-80-core-processor/Feb 11th 2007 8:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/11/intel-demonstrates-80-core-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/11/intel-demonstrates-80-core-processor/Feb 12th 2007 12:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/11/intel-demonstrates-80-core-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/11/intel-demonstrates-80-core-processor/Feb 22nd 2007 4:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/11/intel-demonstrates-80-core-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/11/intel-demonstrates-80-core-processor/Feb 11th 2007 8:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/11/intel-demonstrates-80-core-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/11/intel-demonstrates-80-core-processor/Feb 11th 2007 8:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/11/intel-demonstrates-80-core-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/11/intel-demonstrates-80-core-processor/Feb 11th 2007 8:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/11/intel-demonstrates-80-core-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/11/intel-demonstrates-80-core-processor/http://www.sun.com/processors/index.html

Sun Microsystems has their "Niagara" chip with 8 cores executing 4 threads = 32way.
the Niagara2 chip doubles that to 8 cores executing 8 threads = 64way.
http://www.sun.com/processors/niagara/


the "Victoria Falls" systems are dual processor = up to 128way.
the "Rock" chip due in 2008 will have 16 cores and an undetermined number of threads however expect it to be no less than 8 = at least 128way per chip.

theres a ton more articles about them on http://www.sun.com and on cnet
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*rolls eyes at the absurdity of mac fanboy's* ]]>Feb 11th 2007 11:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/11/intel-demonstrates-80-core-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/11/intel-demonstrates-80-core-processor/lol]]>Feb 11th 2007 10:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/11/intel-demonstrates-80-core-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/11/intel-demonstrates-80-core-processor/Feb 12th 2007 11:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/11/intel-demonstrates-80-core-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/11/intel-demonstrates-80-core-processor/Feb 11th 2007 11:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/11/intel-demonstrates-80-core-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/11/intel-demonstrates-80-core-processor/http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=363]]>Feb 12th 2007 12:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/11/intel-demonstrates-80-core-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/11/intel-demonstrates-80-core-processor/Feb 12th 2007 1:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/11/intel-demonstrates-80-core-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/11/intel-demonstrates-80-core-processor/Feb 12th 2007 1:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/11/intel-demonstrates-80-core-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/11/intel-demonstrates-80-core-processor/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Crack]]>Feb 12th 2007 2:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/11/intel-demonstrates-80-core-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/11/intel-demonstrates-80-core-processor/‘Yeah, but can it play Doom?’

The question NOT, "Can it play Doom?" It most certainly can play Doom. The question IS: Can it play Battletoads?]]>Feb 12th 2007 3:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/11/intel-demonstrates-80-core-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/11/intel-demonstrates-80-core-processor/Feb 12th 2007 12:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/11/intel-demonstrates-80-core-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/11/intel-demonstrates-80-core-processor/Feb 12th 2007 7:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/11/intel-demonstrates-80-core-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/11/intel-demonstrates-80-core-processor/Feb 12th 2007 8:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/11/intel-demonstrates-80-core-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/11/intel-demonstrates-80-core-processor/http://pcnews.tv/147/prototype-80-core-chip/]]>Feb 19th 2007 4:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/11/intel-demonstrates-80-core-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/11/intel-demonstrates-80-core-processor/May 2nd 2007 1:08AM