[erlang-questions] New Intel manycore processor.

[G.S.]

The only problem is that it's not for the public, and that there will only
be a hundred or so of such processors offered to a very few
companies/individuals. But other than that, yes, this and tilera are great,
too bad they tanked larabee.

On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Angel Alvarez <clist@REDACTED> wrote:

> A new Intel toy is on the road...
>
> The new "Single-Chip Cloud Computer" (48 cores) apparently is
> focused to be marketed unlike his predecesor Polaris (80 cores)
> that was just a prototype.
>
> 48 cores arranged as 24 "tiles" of dual core full x86 capable processor
> interconnected with a 2d mesh network with 3 ddr memory ports.
>
> No cache coherency!
>
> " All cache communication between cores and tiles will thus be handled
> by the mesh data communication system and the dedicated "message buffer" on
> each tile"
>
> a perfect match for erlang model?
>
>
> Read more at:
>
> http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=825
>
>
> Anyone interested can submit a form
>
> http://www.makebettercode.com/scc_software_research/form.php
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