Researchers want to make an open-source 25-core processor into a 200,000-core chip.
How will these researchers be able to achieve such a feat?
By cramming in a total of 8,000 64-bit Piton chips.
The feat is not going to be achieved so easily, but thats where the advantage appears for Piton.
The response time in social networking and search will depend upon the horsepower of servers in data centers.
So heres how the 25-core processor will be able to scale up to 200,000 cores.
The bridge also links the chip to DRAM and storage.
While processors using a mesh design is not a new approach, heres is whats unique about Piton.
Its distributed cache and unidirectional links that would pull all cores together in a large server.
Each core has 64KB of L2 cache, which totals 1.6MB for the chip.
A mini-router in each core facilitates fast communication with other cores.
Each core also has a floating point unit, mostly for large-scale parallel computing.
Theres no actual release date of the processor, signifying that it could be in prototype phase right now.
source: www.techworm.net
