Researchers Create CPU With 1,000 Cores
Does something like this even need Hyperthreading?
Think you're pretty cool there with your hexacore desktop processor? That's nothing. Researchers from the University of Glasgow have created a CPU that has 1,000 cores – that's right, one thousand cores on a single chip.
The scientists are using a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) chip with 1,000 mini-circuits inside. The chip has some considerable bandwidth too, as it was able to process 5GB of data per second in testing. Each core has its own dedicated memory.
Dr. Wim Vanderbauwhede, the lead on the project, said, "FPGAs are not used within standard computers because they are fairly difficult to program but their processing power is huge while their energy consumption is very small because they are so much quicker - so they are also a greener option."
"This is very early proof-of-concept work where we're trying to demonstrate a convenient way to program FPGAs so that their potential to provide very fast processing power could be used much more widely in future computing and electronics," he added.
While it won't do anything to upset the current state of desktop computing, it's interesting research into the massively multicore future.
Read more at the DailyMail.
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cool story bro
1000 core fastest chip in the world ! maybe.. yes
overkill much?
When that particular 1,000 cores arrived we will never talk about overclocking anymore.
yeach we can not imagine, how much power needed ???
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.
overkill much?
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
They say it's power efficient.
Well, how efficient is it ?
Will today's software even utilize that much computing power?
Also, what about bottlenecks? i.e. ram and disk.
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.
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..
I want an FPGA computer! but pre-programmed with windows please!
Sounds like a job for Intel and AMD
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......
That's nice. Will it play Crysis?
When that particular 1,000 cores arrived we will never talk about overclocking anymore.
You know thats a lie.
may multithreading trive!~
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
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.
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
That's nice. Will it play Crysis?
Boy, are you lucky that the plus one / minus one feature is broken.
That's nice. Will it play Crysis?
Probably, but 1 milli-second after you click start, you've won the game...
looks like a gpu processor to me.
The applications to neural nets, pattern recognition, machine intelligence, etc. are potentially astounding. This is a piece of a robot brain.
I think they had servers or clusters in mind when they built this and not for home use.
That's nice. Will it play Crysis?
NO!
NOTHING CAN RUN CRYSIS! NOT NOW OR EVER SO STOP ASKING!
Totally SWEET!!
Will probably be about 15 years before these types of cores are mainstream. Still very interesting.
If you SLI 500 GTX 580's with it, you could probably play 100 instances of Crysis at the same time!
Nice but creating many cores on a FPGA is not that hard. The real hard part of a so-many core system is the memory behind it: many small independent memories, a large one with caches (coherent or not), a mix of these, etc ...
Oddly enough Wayne Tech purchased a case of these and they were lost in shipping. In other news, Batman has not been Spotted in Weeks But cyber crime is down 90% for the month in Gotham.