Intel Tera-Scale
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Intel Tera-scale Computing is a research and development
program aiming at scaling Intel multi core architectures for the future.
It has so far developed:
In order to take advantage of the numerous cores of planned processors, Intel developed Ct
to research programming models to eases SIMD
and multithreading programming.
Research and development
The phrase research and development , according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, refers to "creative work undertaken on a systematic basis in order to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of man, culture and society, and the use of this stock of...
program aiming at scaling Intel multi core architectures for the future.
It has so far developed:
- 2007: Teraflops Research ChipTeraflops Research ChipThe Teraflops Research Chip is a research processor containing 80 cores developed by Intel Corporation's Tera-Scale Computing Research Program. The processor was officially announced February 11, 2007 and shown working at the 2007 International Solid-State Circuits Conference...
, an 80 cores processor prototype. - 2009: Single-chip Cloud Computer, a research microprocessor containing the most Intel Architecture cores ever integrated on silicon CPU chip – 48 cores.
In order to take advantage of the numerous cores of planned processors, Intel developed Ct
Intel Ct
Intel Ct is a programming model developed by Intel to ease the exploitation of its future multicore chips, as demonstrated by the Tera-Scale research program.It is based on the exploitation of SIMD to produce automatically parallelized programs....
to research programming models to eases SIMD
SIMD
Single instruction, multiple data , is a class of parallel computers in Flynn's taxonomy. It describes computers with multiple processing elements that perform the same operation on multiple data simultaneously...
and multithreading programming.