The Father of Multi-Core Chips Talks Shop 90
pacopico writes "Stanford professor Kunle Olukotun designed the first mainstream multi-core chip, crafting what would become Sun Microsystems's Niagra product. Now, he's heading up Stanford's Pervasive Parallelism Lab where researchers are looking at 100s of core systems that might power robots, 3-D virtual worlds and insanely big server applications. The Register just interviewed Olukotun about this work and the future of multi-core chips. Weird and interesting stuff."
That's a lot of systems. (Score:2, Funny)
Imagine a (Score:0, Funny)
Imagine a beowulf cluster of ... oh wait
WTF??? (Score:2, Funny)
This is slashdot, you _CAN'T_ post an article that can't be read! timothy, what are you thinking?
Imagine a Beowulf Cluster... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:The Future Is Non-Algorithmic (Score:3, Funny)
Indeed. Its turtles all the way down.
Re:That's a lot of systems. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Multi-core chips will be constrained by (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The Future Is Non-Algorithmic (Score:2, Funny)
Sorry about your turtle, John. We'll get you a new one. Or maybe some Japanese Fighting Fish? They are fun until they start programming your VCR and recording Leno.
Re:Horse Pucky..... (Score:2, Funny)
About .01% of the worlds computers need the kind of power that a CPU with more then say 4 cores provide.
Yes but now that we can't buy XP any more, the penetration of Vista is sure to grow.