Intel's 32 Core, Quad-HyperThreading Super Chip
Four of these together can render some really nice Wolfenstein graphics.
One of the cool things Intel showed off as a technology demo was Wolfenstein ray traced and streamed to a laptop. Rather than relying on traditional GPUs, Intel called upon its Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture currently codenamed "Knights Corner" to render each frame to stream to a laptop.
This effort is aimed at more work than game, however, as it's targeted at the server market. Intel has been shipping industry design and development kits codenamed "Knights Ferry" to select developers. Intel says that this MIC architecture is derived from several Intel projects, including Larrabee and such Intel Labs research projects as the Single-chip Cloud Computer.
While not many specifics are known about the Knights Corner chip, the Knights Ferry servers used to power the Wolfenstein tech demo had chips with 32 x86 cores clocked at 1.2GHz, capable of processing four threads per core – allowing it to handle 128 threads. Four of these were used in the Wolfenstein demo.
The final Knights Corner chip will be made on Intel's 22nm manufacturing process and will put more than 50 Intel processing cores on a single chip.
Although Knights Corner sounds like it'll blow everything out of the water, Intel says that the vast majority of workloads will still run best on Xeon processors. The MIC architecture will shine best, though, in highly parallel applications.
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um...wow? Anyone have a better adjective?
I wonder what architecture each core uses. Is it based on atom? core? something different?
Sounds nice, but whos gonna say it first.. i dare ya
Sounds nice, but whos gonna say it first.. i dare ya
ok i will
but can it play Wolfenstein?
Looks very exciting. Makes me wonder how well software can really scale with that many cores.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl's_law
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.
So they made a GPU? That is what it looks like to me lol. It just does not do graphics....it does everything.
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!
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
Sounds nice, but whos gonna say it first.. i dare ya
....but can it play............................................crysis?
Software just needs to catchup to hardware on multicore setups.. Well nonserver software that is..
any benchmarks ???
My DX2 can blow it out the water...
and then skynet was born
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.
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!
Clubs and sticks and sharpened stones
Intel larrabee?
ok i will
but can it play Wolfenstein?
No, no the real question is........can it play Crysis on max settings?
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.
I think we have already seen a demo for its GFX capability and it sucks!
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.
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.
I would like to see some video transcoding with this thing =D
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!
Man, my first PC (a Mac actually) only had a 20MB hard drive. Its was color though (16bit I think).
Multifrontal Massively Paralel FEM Solver FTW
D
It looks huge and each sub unit looks almost exactly like a dual core atom hence the 4 thread hyperthreading aspect. So can 4 dual core (8 cores, 16 threads) 1.2Ghz Atom processors optimized to parallel an old wolfenstien demo..., yes
it will become the best room heater ever made, need 1 core to heat 1 sqm ...
I generally Like what intel has to offer, To me the past month it sound like intel is out of ideas, buying up secters of the market and to hell with graphic, eventhough they are the largest and richest processor company in the world, but they cant make a video card so here is a boatload of cpu's to make us look cool.
Anyone who has see this befor, I would wager in the next year AMD will take the thrown again. I think intel is lost for words right now.
Let the prices drop.. intelif this is your market, your will loose the game, Yes I ment that pun.
Stop all the crap. Make a video system or buy Nvidia and let move on becasue this is unreal. 5-10 years from now, than we can look at something like this.
And pay how much for it ? Half of a Ferrari ?
@jdamon
Ehh, Intel made a booboo. THey are big enough (and the market is uninformed enough) to absorb it this time around, but they did. The booboo is Nahelem (did I spell that right?) released in the consumer market/desktop segment with its socket change, triple channel memory (useless for home applications). Don't get me wrong, the processors are monsters, but the problem is, they are still monsters - and they will remain that even with SandyBridge out. By creating these monsters, they gave AMD free reign in the value segment (where the $ is at) and what allowed AMD to come back from the brink in the last few years.
Now, Intel realizes this, and hence, Sandy Bridge. Lower power, dual channel, integrated graphics, and cheaper. Sure, new sockets again, but that's to be expected from Intel by now. With these offerings, Intel's got AMD in the cross-hairs again - they are trying to recover from the BooBoo (and will succeed, probably). However, AMD beat them to the punch with their Fusion chips which have been recently benchmarked and are awesome. Intel still has the performance crown - AMD has nothing to match the 6-core i7s - and hence there has been no progress in this segment. Competition is moving to the value segment, and as I've said, by persuing Nahelem, Intel let AMD gain significant ground in this middle segment. Being an AMD fan, this makes me very happy (and it should make Intel fans happy too as competition is good for everyone). Hopefully, Intels new focus on the middle ground and AMD's excellent performance in this segment will allow AMD some time to breathe and allow them to catch up again in the performance sector with Bulldozer-derived Zambezi... hopefully...
So in conclusion, Intel goes for performance, gets it, AMD gives up on performance, nails the middle/low/server segments, Intel realizes that's where the $/growth is at, abandons performance (letting the platform stagnate), and chases AMD into the middle/low segments, but too little too late as AMD releases a new generation before Intel does, so now they are going to be 4-6 months behind.
I think the most amusing part about the Booboo however, is that despite Intel letting the platform stagnate, they are upping the high-end chips every once in a while with new extreme editions (at $1000/pop) - even though they are simply results of improved yields and quality of said yields. This allows them to make up for the booboo (again, at $1000/chip!!) by milking the crowd that actaully is silly enough to upgrade every time something faster comes out.
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Designs like this will definitely will see use in particle physics compilation farms.