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Glen David Short
Senior Cruncher Joined: Nov 6, 2008 Post Count: 192 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Kilo-core chip with 1000 1.78ghz processors... uses less power than an AA battery.... https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160617215802.htm?
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enels
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It looks really promising. It sounds like each core has its own memory. I'd guess in the 1-4 MB range:
"Each processor core can run its own small program independently of the others," "and they transfer data directly to each other rather than using a pooled memory area that can become a bottleneck for data." With 621 million transistors they probably don't have enough memory to run 1000 WCG tasks now. But the design looks promising. |
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Glen David Short
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Assuming the integral memory is too low, perhaps this weakness could be addressed by
----------------------------------------1. Compiling new WCG projects with less memory system reqs. 2. Designing a way external memory can be added and still accessed by each core when needed. Or, just wait a few years, and hope someone will start manufacturing such chips with enough memory for us WCG crunchers. ![]() |
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enels
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All 3 are good ideas.
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There are 3.5 million core and china now has a ten million core systems
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Former Member
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I see that Intel's Knights Landing has landed: http://www.nextplatform.com/2016/06/20/intel-...ields-big-bang-buck-jump/
Isn't this of more use to folk like us? |
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enels
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Knights Landing could be for us, if we have a project that can use it. There are 72 cores based on a "highly modified Silvermont design. Silvermont is the name for a family of processors including Bay Trail, Avotron, some Celerons and Pentiums, etc.
The two biggest modifications I see are Knights Landing cores can run 4 threads per core (288 threads total) and each core has 2 AVX512 vector units. The problem is none of the WCG projects now use AVX institutions, much less AVX512. So most of the potential of the chip would be unusable now at the WCG. It would also need a lot of memory to run 288 WCG tasks. |
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Glen David Short
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I think the great thing here is the low power consumption, just amazing.
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