Mainboard of Intel 48-core SCC prototype system
Posted on 05/23/2010 11:50:29 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Corp. recently demonstrated a system based on the experimental 48-core supercomputer on chip (SCC) processor. The system appears to look like just an ordinary personal computer and seems to operate flawlessly. Unfortunately, Intel share no benchmark numbers for the prototype processor that belongs to the company’s Terascale Research program.
Mainboard of Intel 48-core SCC prototype system
The experimental mainboard for the 48-core SCC is called Copper Ridge and besides the processor itself it carries a specially-designed core-logic, eight DIMM slots, necessary I/O to enable operation of the system (graphics core, graphics memory on SO-DIMM, various standard connectors as well as numerous special-purpose connectors) and other necessary components. There are no Serial ATA ports installed, as a result, an Intel USB flash disk is used instead of a hard disk drive. Although the mainboard seems to fit into a typical computer case, it does not look like it complies with ATX specification.
(Excerpt) Read more at xbitlabs.com ...
According to Intel, the 48-core chip operates at the clock-speed comparable to Intel Atom microprocessors, which means that the frequency of the microprocessors is in the range between 1.60GHz and 1.83GHz.
Will it come in a laptop?
We’ll probably only be able to run it at 30 minute intervals, with it soaking in ice water in the meantime. After a week to dry out, then we can use it again! Yay!!!
GIGO faster!
haha....nice.
Maybe ... but will it run Bioshock2????
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Next year, Intel plans to provide software developers more than a hundred of experimental chips for development of new software apps.
It should burn its way to the center of the Earth.
What is the size of the power supply to run the desktop. My true quad with gaming graphics requires 700 watts, is the 48 SCC going to require 5 Kilo Watts????
So that it can spend 99.9% of its time, waiting for the bozo at the keyboard to try to remember which key he was supposed to hit next...?
Very few CPUs do much, and they're in servers and scientific machines. 99% of the computers in the world are private or business user boxes, which spend (see above) 99.9% of their time waiting for the user to hit a key or move a mouse.
So, no.
I know, you were joking, referring to the impractical heat and size; I just wanted to add the silliness factor, too.
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Intel Labs has created an experimental “Single-chip Cloud Computer,” a research microprocessor containing the most Intel Architecture cores ever integrated on silicon CPU chip – 48 cores. It incorporates technologies intended to scale multi-core processors to 100 cores and beyond, such as an on-chip network, advanced power management technologies and support for “message-passing.” Architecturally, the chip resembles a cloud of computers integrated into silicon. Click here to learn more.
Laptop? Sure. 15 min. Runtime on the battery though. And that’s in extreme power save mode.
Computer geeks, help me out here. Is it true that to get the benefit of 48 cores you would have to be running an OS and applications that were written to make use of 48 cores?
This is most likey a research project to advance multi-core compiler/OS development.
That or, cause a warp in the space/time continuum...
I remember back in the day, when the 486 had just been announced, a computer salesman told me that it would be only for banks and scientists, not for private homes. Ha. It must appear just as unlikely today for such a supercomputer to be destined for private homes. I guess it depends on which way the future wind blows...whether we will continue to have ever faster and more capable standalone machines at home, or we will trend toward dumb internet terminals and glorified cell phones with all the apps and storage out there online or in the “cloud”.
Linux and Unix can already handle that.
I think the article said they collectively would go over 125 Watss....this is a research project and the wattage can be controlled by the programmer...apparently.
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