“terascale” Tag

05/05/2008: Madeleine Glick on Polymer waveguides for high speed board-level optical interconnects

The continued growth of data rates in servers, routers and high-bandwidth computing systems has led to an increased interest in optical backplanes for these applications. Data rates in the backplane are increasing to several Gbps/channel and higher. The trend to...

03/31/2008: Yimin Zhang on Why do we need many-core?

Now we are already in a Multi-core era, dual-core has become mainstream, and some people even have Quad-core CPUs in their desktop PC. But some people still are are not clear if, in the future more cores will benefit them,...

03/19/2008: Introducing two “Universal Parallel Computing Research Centers”

Today, it’s a pleasure for me to report that Intel and Microsoft are joining forces to accelerate the mainstream adoption of highly parallel computing technology. Together, the two companies are pioneering the concept of industry-funded “Universal Parallel Computing Research Centers”...

03/17/2008: "Automated sports highlights" demo video

I wanted to share a video of some of the application research we have going on at our Intel China Research Center in the area of video mining. In collaboration with Tsinghua University, Yimin Zhang and his team at ICRC...

02/26/2008: Designing future computers with future workloads

What will people do with their computers in five, ten or twenty years? How will computers need to change to support these future usage models? And finally, how the heck are we going to program these things? These are the...

02/03/2008: Randy Mooney on ISSCC: Scaling performance/watt through circuit innovation

As we look forward to enabling exciting new opportunities in platforms ranging from mobile computing to the data center, along with associated new applications, one common denominator of all these products will be the underlying process technology and the circuits...

01/25/2008: What real physics can do for animation (video)

Check this video out. These are special effect animations using physical modeling techniques, devloped Prof. Ron Fedkiw’s group at Stanford (see Jerry’s previous blog). Intel collaborates with Ron’s group to parallelize, analyze, and scale the performance of Prof. Fedkiw’s PhysBAM,...

12/27/2007: Resiliency – A Key Strategy to Keep Reaping the Benefits of Moore’s Law (guest post)

This post comes from Antonio Gonzalez, director of the Intel Barcelona Research Center in Spain. His lab conducts a variety of research aimed at improving the performance and energy efficiency of future multi-core and tera-scale microprocessors. His post relates to...

10/18/2007: The Problem(s) with GPGPU

Hundreds of GigaFLOPs are available in your PC today….in fact, you might even have a TeraFLOP in there. As someone who cut his teeth on a Cray C90 (15 GFLOPS max), this is an intriguing opportunity to dabble; for the...

09/21/2007: Rattner's Virtual World's Keynote: Research Reflections on IDF Day 3

Thursday, our CTO Justin Rattner gave a keynote on virtual worlds and the emergence of what he called the 3D Internet. The 3D Internet Rattner described is the mushrooming social world of multiplayer online games, of complex animations for medicine...

09/20/2007: Tera-scale Demos at IDF

Following up on Brian’s post yesterday, here’s some pics and info on the Tera-scale demos we have here at IDF....

09/11/2007: Tera-scale for laptops?

Recently I was looking over some slides by Intel Fellow Vivek De, which he has put together for his Intel Developer Forum session next week on “Energy Management Innovations for Future Multi-Core Processors.” In the presentation I saw a few...

09/10/2007: Making “virtual” more real

Within the Intel labs we were shocked by the public reaction to our 80 core disclosure last spring. The interest level was astounding, but after the initial discussions (around core type, how they were arranged/interconnected, power vs. teraflops, and the...

08/17/2007: The Many Flavors of Parallelism

In my last blog, I described why parallel programming is hard. In the next few blogs, I’ll start to describe how we’re trying to make it easy (there’s tons of good work at Intel on this). When I first started...

08/14/2007: Multi-core research update: the intimate coupling of software & hardware

This week we are excited to share further technical progress towards our vision to enable scalable, programmable multi-core architectures based on many cores. We are disclosing 8 technical papers from our Tera-scale program via the Intel Technology Journal with new...

08/08/2007: A follow-up on the the 40G Modulator

First of all, I’d like to thank every one for sending their comments to my blog “Announcing 40 Gb/s silicon optical modulator.” I will take this opportunity to try to address some of the issues raised in your comments....

08/03/2007: What Makes Parallel Programming Hard?

One of the challenges of multi-core and tera-scale architecture is how to make parallel programming “easier”. But what makes it hard in the first place? I thought it might be worth explaining some of our experiences with this as a...

07/27/2007: Groundhog Day: A Personal Perspective on Multi-core Computing

In the 1993 comedy “Groundhog Day”, Bill Murray finds himself reliving the same (eponymous) day again and again until he mends his ways and becomes a better person. Nearly twenty years ago, when I entered graduate school, parallel computing was...

07/24/2007: Announcing the world's first 40G silicon laser modulator!

In this blog, I would like to share with you our recent breakthrough in Silicon Photonics research at Photonics Technology Lab of Intel, a laser modulator that encodes optical data at 40 billion bits per second. Here I am holding...

07/19/2007: Virtual worlds, 80 cores, and 20,000 golden pigs

Why show 20,000 golden pigs to a select group of 85 press and analysts? Because it was a cool way to show both a future application capability (massive collision detection) and a new parallel programming environment called Ct, i.e. C...

07/17/2007: Inside an 80-core chip: the on-chip communication and memory bandwidth solutions

By John Du, reposted from our Chinese language blog. Here I would like to discuss about some hot technical topics. About tera-scale, some readers of the Chinese blog made comments about the communication and the memory bandwidth solutions. I would...

07/10/2007: What would you do with 80 cores?

When talking to folks about tera-scale computing research or the 80-core research chip, the question inevitably arises as to what general users would really be able to do with “supercomputer-level” performance in a desktop, let alone a mobile device. And...

06/28/2007: Parallel Computing: making sequential software rare

In my job at Intel, I get to travel far and wide to meet with research groups working on parallel computing. And as travel, I am constantly struck by the differences between the state of HW and SW in parallel...

06/27/2007: Research at Intel Day highlight video

Following up on Brian’s post yesterday, here’s a video showing highlights from Research@Intel day last week....

06/26/2007: Hello, Intel Labs...Yea, we do that

Last Wednesday, June 20th, we held our 5th annual Research @ Intel day . This is a day where we open our doors to the press and analyst communities and share with them the research that is being conducted in...

06/19/2007: Multi-core processors: An inflection point in software

Welcome to my first blog! I’m delighted to be part of the Research@Intel blog. As an Intel researcher, my job involves developing new programming systems for future Intel architectures. I work on a range of technologies spanning programming languages, optimizing...