Comments on: More on Intel and Cray at HPCwire http://insidehpc.com/2008/04/29/more-on-intel-and-cray-at-hpcwire/ HPC News Without the Noise for Supercomputing Professionals | insideHPC Sun, 19 May 2013 10:46:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Rich http://insidehpc.com/2008/04/29/more-on-intel-and-cray-at-hpcwire/#comment-54117 Rich Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:54:35 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/2008/04/29/more-on-intel-and-cray-at-hpcwire/#comment-54117 I keep hearing about this 80 core Terachip that Intel has made. Now, while I was at the Intel Developer Forum 2 years ago they had this same chip there and were bragging up and down about it in the marketing speals. After the talks and intros I was wandering around and ended up speaking to an Intel guy that had a really neat bread boarded system set up. I inquired as to what it was. It was a mock up to test different theories on how to get the 80 cores to share cache and/or talk. At the time the chip had no communications or cache. Just 80 chips on a die. Uhm. Wait a minute. You brag about an 80 core chip with a theoretical speed of a Teraflop and then you don't even know how to get the processors to talk to each other? Not sure how much progress they've made. But when I saw it, contrary to marketing swag, it was a LONG ways away from being anything but a chunk of silicon. I keep hearing about this 80 core Terachip that Intel has made. Now, while I was at the Intel Developer Forum 2 years ago they had this same chip there and were bragging up and down about it in the marketing speals.

After the talks and intros I was wandering around and ended up speaking to an Intel guy that had a really neat bread boarded system set up. I inquired as to what it was. It was a mock up to test different theories on how to get the 80 cores to share cache and/or talk. At the time the chip had no communications or cache. Just 80 chips on a die.

Uhm. Wait a minute. You brag about an 80 core chip with a theoretical speed of a Teraflop and then you don’t even know how to get the processors to talk to each other?

Not sure how much progress they’ve made. But when I saw it, contrary to marketing swag, it was a LONG ways away from being anything but a chunk of silicon.

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