Intel Launches the Single-chip Cloud Computer
Intel launched a prototype chip that includes 48 detached processing cores.
The Single-chip Cloud Computer (SCC) consists of 1.3 billion transistors, the small on-off switches that support chip technology. Each processing core is able to operate with a separate operating system. Top-end chips that are made for desktop computers have four separate processors.
It is expected that Intel and its competitor AMD will release six-core devices in 2010. It will enable computer to tackle a number of difficult tasks at the same time.
The chip got such name as “cloud” as it combines the computing resources filing a few blocks in a data centre.
The SCC consists of 24 “tiles” each among which one is considered to be a dual-core processor.
In 2007 the company introduced an 80-core processor while a US firm known as Tilera decided to create a 100-core chip this year.
The SCC has Intel’s X86 architecture due to which it is able to operate with Intel’s X86 architecture found in usual desktop computers such as Windows and Linux.
According to Intel, the company showed the ability of Linux to run on each core. It is also able to slash the management.
In order to gripe power consumption, the tiles making up the chip can be split into islands that have various sizes and can operate at separate voltages.
Officially the device will be available during the first half of 2010. More information can be learned at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference that will be held in San Francisco on 8 February, 2010.
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