[Beowulf] Teraflop chip hints at the future

[Lawrence Stewart]

On Feb 12, 2007, at 10:22 PM, Chris Samuel wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Mitchell Wisidagamage wrote:
>
>> I think this news is of some relevance to the group...
>>
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6354225.stm
>
> Single or double precision ?
>
> --  

http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197004697

eetimes has a better article, that says it is single precision.  each  
core is
cited as being 3 mm**2 in 65 nm.    The mips-64 cores we're using in  
90 nm
are 6 mm**2, with a double precision FP unit.  So by area, the Intel  
cores
are similar in complexity

Intel is stacking dram dice above the cpu as an L4 cache, but the  
article doesn't really
explain how they plan to expand the off-chip bw other than by going  
to photonics
eventually.

-Larry