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4, 6, 8 cores? How about 1000 cores!

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http://www.mydigitallife.info/2010/12/30/scientists-unveils-ultra-fast-1000-core-computer-processor/


They say soon, quite a leap for Moore's law!

Ultra-fast 1,000 core computer processor will soon become reality. Using a chip called FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array), scientists have created an ultra-fast 1,000 core computer CPU processor.

FPGAs allows the chip to be configured into specific circuits by the user, rather than factory default setting, which makes it possible to divide up the transistors within the chip into small groups and perform different task.

By creating more than 1,000 mini-circuits within the FPGA chip, it effectively turns the chip into a 1,000-core processor and each core working on its own instructions.

The chip has been tested on an algorithm central to the MPEG movie format at a speed of 5 gigabytes per second, which is around 20 times faster than current top-end desktop computers.

Dr Vanderbauwhede of University of Glasgow hopes to present his research at the International Symposium on Applied Reconfigurable Computing in March 2011.
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No more need for GPU acceleration then for video encoding :p

Oh and obligatory Crysis @ 60fps
 
They're not exactly cores, mini-circuits apparently with a instructions set to each. Says that in the article.
 
Being from Glasgow I would just like to add something that will probably not be picked up if you are outwith Scotland.

The Inventors name "Dr Vanderbauwhede" is actually Scottish slang for "D..K Head" well the "bauwhede" part is anyway.

This is clearly a load of rubbish.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=baw+heed

Of course they have spelt it differently to avoid obvious detection, but it's there. Anyone who buys into this nonsense deserves to be labelled a bawheed :)
 
There is actually a technology similar to this... I'm trying desperately to remember the basis.
It was developed by university of Oregon or something... I think... Might be wrong...
The example I was given was a chip that when given an instruction set, for example to search through all the webpages on google for a set of words could compute this hundreds of times faster than a normal CPU. On the basis that the chip was basically working in a similar way to this chip described in the article - logic configuration...
This kind of power could be applied to other things. The tech was bought up by intel if I remember correctly...
And then it dissapeared...
 
Marvin said:
Besides, it's not great returns is it? 20 times faster for 250x more cores. Great...
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LeJosh said:
They're not exactly cores, mini-circuits apparently with a instructions set to each. Says that in the article.
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This. It's like splitting Q6600's 582 million transistors and you can effectively also have 1000 'mini cores' each consisting of 582000 transistors performing different tasks but it won't make the Q6600 250x faster than it's original spec. It may just make it a bit more faster in terms of processing efficiency:rolleyes:.

True innovation would lie in creating 1000 equal physical cores cpu ;)
 
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I think the way to do it would be to have your normal processor, with an re-preogrammable FPGA Board, for example in a pci express slot. You would then have to design/buy/download circuits designed to do a specific task and run them on the FPGA Board and use your normal processor to collate the results.

This is by no means a new tech, it's like saying ZOMG TV tuner cards can stream live HD tv on the fly!! It is very possible that the card has a pre-programmed FPGA dedicated to decoding HD tv signals.
 
jack.mitchell said:
I think the way to do it would be to have your normal processor, with an re-preogrammable FPGA Board, for example in a pci express slot. You would then have to design/buy/download circuits designed to do a specific task and run them on the FPGA Board and use your normal processor to collate the results.

This is by no means a new tech, it's like saying ZOMG TV tuner cards can stream live HD tv on the fly!! It is very possible that the card has a pre-programmed FPGA dedicated to decoding HD tv signals.
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Or I could just use that thing sitting in my pci-express slot right now?
 
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