Intel Squeezes 1.8 TFlops Out of One Processor 168
Jagdeep Poonian writes "It appears as though Intel has been able to squeeze 1.8 TFlops out of one processor and with a power consumption of 62 watts." The AP version of the story is mostly the same; a more technical examination of TeraScale is also available.
Both cool and useless for 99% of computing (Score:5, Insightful)
I'm glad to see Intel is using their size for more than x86 core production though.
Tom
Just imagine (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:The title is misleading (Score:1, Insightful)
exaflop computers? (Score:3, Insightful)
What is the point for 80 cores on the FSB (Score:3, Insightful)
More room for bloatware..... (Score:1, Insightful)
People still effectively use processing power equivelant to that of an 800mhz Pentium 3 for basic stuff (and I'm just talking about Word processing, email, internet, no gaming) on average. Why would someone need a quad core CPU, and a crappy videocard just for surfing the net, typing, etc?
In reality, that is what will ultimately happen. Just lots of stuff running in the background without us really noticing it. The speed and cores can make it easier to hide spyware in the background because you won't notice any slowdown in your system when the spyware loads, whereas if you have an older PC you will notice when something is running in the background as it will slow it down considerably. Bloatware will end up becoming tolerable when these types of CPUS start being put in desktop PCs. People will get used to it as much as most people tolerate spam in their email.
Narrow Minded (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:What kinds of apps does this make reasonable? (Score:3, Insightful)
From my understanding perhaps with that many cores, the OS could simply allocate one application per core.
But the OS has to support that feature or have applications that know how to call unused cores.
From my understanding Parallels for OS X only uses one core and picks the second core to run on for the best performance.
Of course then there are applications that could be programmed to use all the cores at once if they needed to do scientific calculations or something like Ray Tracing.
Re:Real-time Ray Tracing? (Score:1, Insightful)