Intel 80-core processor prototype draws less than 100W

[roma_turok]

Imagine, In future you can encode full movie in 10min

Intel's 80-core prototype draws less than 100W
When Intel announced at IDF last fall that it had built a prototype 80-core processor, the news might have conjured up images of a chip with the power requirements of a small city. In reality, the Teraflop chip's cores aren't conventional x86 units, and its die size is 302.5mm²—only around 17mm² more than Kentsfield. Intel R&D strategist Manny Vara has now told EE Times about the chip's actual power draw, and it's actually less than 100W. For reference, the Core 2 Extreme QX6700 has a power rating of 130W, and the Core 2 Duo line is rated for 65W.
Of course, the 80-core chip is still a prototype that "lacks some necessary functionality," and Intel doesn't expect to start selling such processors for another five to eight years. In the meantime, Vara says we might see "different flavors" of quad-core chips that have "more complex cores along with simpler cores."

http://techreport.com/onearticle.x/11656

[Capmaster]

80 cores .....

[Cobra]

Core-crazy Capmaster...

There certainly seems to be a shift towards the use of many smaller cores as opposed to one or two bigger ones. Look at Sony's Cell processor for a start. Supercomputers can be created through distributed computing, too - many smaller computers coming together to make a big, powerful one. Didn't Cray do something similar with a load of Opteron processors?

[Capmaster]

Core-crazy Capmaster...

There certainly seems to be a shift towards the use of many smaller cores as opposed to one or two bigger ones. Look at Sony's Cell processor for a start. Supercomputers can be created through distributed computing, too - many smaller computers coming together to make a big, powerful one. Didn't Cray do something similar with a load of Opteron processors?

My employer (ex) has the 100 teraflop Red Storm, with 10,368 2GHz Opteron CPUs:
http://www.sandia.gov/ASC/redstorm.html


They also have the much older 3.1 teraflop Asci Red machine with 9,298 P2 Xeon processors:
http://www.sandia.gov/ASCI/Red/

[Webster]

Core-crazy Capmaster...

There certainly seems to be a shift towards the use of many smaller cores as opposed to one or two bigger ones. Look at Sony's Cell processor for a start. Supercomputers can be created through distributed computing, too - many smaller computers coming together to make a big, powerful one. Didn't Cray do something similar with a load of Opteron processors?

My employer (ex) has the 100 teraflop Red Storm, with 10,368 2GHz Opteron CPUs:
http://www.sandia.gov/ASC/redstorm.html


They also have the much older 3.1 teraflop Asci Red machine with 9,298 P2 Xeon processors:
http://www.sandia.gov/ASCI/Red/

Yeah, all those cores are fine and dandy, but can they run Window CE-ME-NT with it???

[jagabo]

My employer (ex) has the 100 teraflop Red Storm, with 10,368 2GHz Opteron CPUs:
http://www.sandia.gov/ASC/redstorm.html


They also have the much older 3.1 teraflop Asci Red machine with 9,298 P2 Xeon processors:
http://www.sandia.gov/ASCI/Red/

I bet those consume a little more than 100 watts!

[Capmaster]

Webster -

jagabo - A little ...

[painkiller]

Webster -

[Dr. DOS]

My employer (ex) has the 100 teraflop Red Storm, with 10,368 2GHz Opteron CPUs:
http://www.sandia.gov/ASC/redstorm.html

Whew... image the video encoding speed on that bad boy