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Teraflop CPU from Intel
www.intel.com/research/platform/terascale/teraflops.htm
The Teraflops Research Chip is the latest development from the Intel® Tera-scale Computing Research
Program. This chip is Intel’s first silicon tera-scale research prototype. It is the first programmable chip to
deliver more than one trillion floating point operations per second (1 Teraflops) of performance while
consuming very little power. This research project focuses on exploring new, energy–efficient designs
for future multi–core chips, as well as approaches to interconnect and core–to–core communications.
The research chip implements 80 simple cores, each containing two programmable floating point
engines—the most ever to be integrated on a single chip. Floating point engines are used for accurate
calculations, such as for graphics as well as financial and scientific modeling. In terms of circuit design,
they are more complex than integer engines, which just process instructions.
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www.intel.com/research/platform/terascale/teraflops.htm
The Teraflops Research Chip is the latest development from the Intel® Tera-scale Computing Research
Program. This chip is Intel’s first silicon tera-scale research prototype. It is the first programmable chip to
deliver more than one trillion floating point operations per second (1 Teraflops) of performance while
consuming very little power. This research project focuses on exploring new, energy–efficient designs
for future multi–core chips, as well as approaches to interconnect and core–to–core communications.
The research chip implements 80 simple cores, each containing two programmable floating point
engines—the most ever to be integrated on a single chip. Floating point engines are used for accurate
calculations, such as for graphics as well as financial and scientific modeling. In terms of circuit design,
they are more complex than integer engines, which just process instructions.
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