Tilera wants to put a direct competition to Intel’s current generation processor, Sandybridge, in the server environment. Their desperate chips are based on 40nm fabrication technology based on 64-bit architecture. Tilera Gx family have between … Read more
Multi-core, initially targeted for Servers, eventually, became part of our desktops and portables. But what is still lacking is “efficient parallelization” of programs — Our modern Multicore applications still don’t take the best out of the hardware … Read more
In 1968, IBM had introduced a new concept that could enable Software Threads at the lowest level transparent to the application developers, this was known as SMT or Simultaneous Multithreading. Sure, it was a great … Read more
AMD has introduced a 40W six-core Opteron processor. The overhauled chip offers 31 percent higher performance-per-watt over a standard quad-core Opteron. According to AMD spokesperon Brent Kerby, companies that require low power processors often deploy … Read more
Many-core chips are the great hope for more performance but Sandia National Lab simulations show they are about to hit a memory wall. How bad is it? Some background Memory bandwidth is the limiting performance … Read more