Intel Scientists Talk Tereflops

03:03 | editor | Feb 13th, 2007 5:47pm |

This is a video of Intel engineers talking about their research into 80-core chip technology. PodTech’s interview with Intel CTO Justin Rattner about the company’s 80-core announcement can be found here.

Commissioned by Intel.

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More Information:
Intel Tera-Scale Research (80-Core animation available on this site)
Intel Pressroom
Technolgy @ Intel Magazine
Intel Technology Journal

Transcript:

Guest: Nitin Borkar - Intel
Guest: Saurabh Dighe - Intel
Guest: Sriram Vangal - Intel

Nitin Borkar - Intel
Intel’s Teraflop Research Chip consists of lot of innovations going forward for multi-core architectures. Some of them are rapid design conversions, network-on-a-chip and fine-grain power management. Bringing Tera-scale computing to PCs and servers requires a new way of building processors that can be thought of as a network of powerful computers on a chip.

This Teraflop Research Chip is one important example of how the Intel Tera-scale Computing Research Program aims to change the future through constant hardware and software innovations. In addition to the compute element, each core contains a 5-port message passing router. These are connected in a 2D mesh network that implement message-passing protocol. This network on a chip mesh interconnect scheme could prove much more scalable than today’s multi-core ...