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Dell talks about 80 core processor

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Dell talks about 80 core processor
By Sylvie Barak
Nov 20, 2008 | 5 Comments
Tags: Dell | talks | about | 80 | core | processor

Get ready an 80-core monster machine from Dell. At SC08 yesterday, Michael Dell, Dell’s CEO gave a presentation which included a slide showing an 80 core chip which should tip up sometime around 2010.

It isn’t the first time 80-core processors have come up in conference conversation. A couple of years ago, Intel’s CEO, Paul Otellini, took the opportunity in an IDF keynote to make similar promises of delivering an 80-core processor within the next five years. He had also noted that the chips should be able to swap data at a terabyte a second.

"The x86 revolution continues. You see more and more cores. Increased performance. But also without more power required," said Dell during his keynote yesterday, noting that the trend was to pack more and more computing power into smaller machines, creating desktop sized supercomputers.

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Dell slide shown Tuesday at SC08 (Credit: Dell Computer)

Of course the jump to 80 cores won’t happen without several intermediate stages. Intel’s upcoming Larrabee graphics chip will be a multi-core processor, and Chipzilla’s Dunnington already counts six cores.

Sun Microsystem’s Rock processor has 16 cores and Intel is rumoured to be planning a 32-core system very soon indeed.

 

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LordBug
Nov 20, 2008 10:52 AM
80 cores?

Pfft, try 10,000!
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/11/sgi-creates-con.html
IT'S OVER 9000!
:)~
SceptreCore
Nov 20, 2008 4:04 PM
Don't start that over 9000 thing again!
colganaitor
Nov 21, 2008 1:06 PM
What, 9000? And they're raping the children?
MrPodgy
Nov 22, 2008 3:12 PM
but they are talking about 80 cores on the one processor not a rack of processors there. its good that there is a machine than can hold several thousand cpu's at once but to be on one core at once ist more outstanding. give it time those 10,000 will be on one core. Now thats when a god ol "HOT DAM" is payable.
MrPodgy
Nov 22, 2008 3:13 PM
that was an is for ist.
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