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- smellinator, on 10/10/2007, -2/+32Compilers, or it didn't happen....
- TheInfamousOne, on 10/10/2007, -1/+26Don't worry, for $1400 it was outdated before you bought it.
- smellinator, on 10/10/2007, -4/+28http://www.tilera.com/company/careers.php your inability to use Google should really be reason to rule you out as a potential candidate.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -6/+19Just shutup.
- pak314, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13They haven't told us how powerful each of the cores are. Your video card has quite a few cores also but they are all quite specialized vector processors.
- Urusai, on 10/10/2007, -2/+11Oh great now we'll all have to program in Erlang or Haskell or some *****.
- DarkPrince11, on 10/10/2007, -3/+12he didn't ask for the careers page. He wanted to know if anyone had connections and could help him out.
- santaliqueur, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Yep, that's all it takes. Soon, even you can compete with Intel or AMD, just by learning VHDL.
- Punisher2K, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10Go Amish or suck it up.
- pak314, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Okay I read a little bit more on the website. Interesting that it will run Linux 2.6 kernel. The applications they are targeting initially are network monitoring and filtering and video encoding. This kind of makes sense because much of the work could be done in parallel.
- Ramble, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Not really. x86 processors have had what is essentially a RISC core since the Pentium Pro, the instructions are converted on-the-fly.
- da5id, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5According to the article, it runs at 10 times the performance of an Intel Xeon with 36 cores. According to my rudimentary mathematical skills, that makes each core run at about 0.27777777777777777777777777777778 times a single Intel Xeon core. I think. Maybe.
- Ramble, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4How'd they get around the number of interconnects needed. If every processor can communicate with any other one without a bus then it must be an insanely complex network of wires.
- Andir, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Of course it will. I'll even bet it would tear through the Ray-Traced Quake engine as well. http://graphics.cs.uni-sb.de/~sidapohl/egoshooter/
- oneblackcitizen, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4(n*(n-1))/2 ???
- kickarse, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5RISC is good...
- clickwir, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Digg has a pretty good comment system. Learn it.
- hokie47, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I think it is time for a new computer. Spend around $800 and you can build yourself something nice to game on. I had something like this and I pawned it off on my fiance.
- smellinator, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6OK, since you asked if anyone knows someone connected with the company, the answer is YES. Someone does.
Seriously, do you think that a random contact from Digg is going to get you a job? "Hey, I know this guy named BadgerUMD, really a great guy... will you interview him? Well, no, I don't really know his technical capability. In fact, I couldn't pick him out of a crowd. But he really diggs the same stuff that I do."
I guess stranger things have happened, but it just seems like a very weird request. - noumuon, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4...an interestingly pretentious remark that speaks the very nature of hypocrisy.
- oneblackcitizen, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3just looking at the number of connections between cores, as the number of cores grows. how long until it gets totally out of hand?
hypercubes not good enough anymore? lol - pak314, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Yes, you could make your own computer chip in an FPGA but it would not be competitive with a general purpose processor made by Intel or AMD. For special purpose computation, you can customize the processor and easily beat them.
- Punisher2K, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5You know Intel isn't a person and that Hell doesn't exist right?
- Shananra, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3if you read the article, each core is not directly connected to each other. There is a network in there, and each core has multiple routes to every other core to avoid bottlenecks. This would make sense, as it's the only way to be scalable.
- GMorgan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Well honestly we aren't likely to maximise usage of these chips with traditional languages. Perhaps we need to give more time to languages like Erlang to really keep moving forward. Concurrency has to be considered the most important factor in future language design.
- jtb4, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Hell DOES exist. But you're right- Intel is not a person.
- Y0tsuya, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Try using the same line at your job interview. "Hey dude, don't be a doucbag, hire me. We're in the same COMMUNITY."
- jkaechler, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2by this equation are you stating that if you increase the number of cores eponentially, you only realize half the actual increase in performance?
thats what i think. much of the extra processing ability of this thing must be used by the management of this thing.
still, its really cool and i want one!
+DIGG - championchap, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Yeah, $1400 means you never play counter strike. It's just unheard of!
- fkr3, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4Digg's only a community in the loosest defintion of the word. It's not like any of us are really friends, or communicating beyond short-lived comments and replies on short-lived stories on digg.
- championchap, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2haha, i think the point of his one was that FPS count in gaming is just one big pissing contest.
And that everyone who takes place should grow up. - scoot2006, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Core64 has a ring to it.. sounds retro too.
- clickwir, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Don't worry darkhowling, if you actually read the DAMN ARTICLE... it's pretty clear that this is a RISC chip, it won't be used in desktop type pc's. Maybe not even in server type applications.
- weeeezzll, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Nah...everyone knows that Mennonite is the only way to go...
- BadgerUMD, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Woah guys ... what's with the serious animosity here? A simple "yes I know someone, they're cool to work with" was all I was really hoping for. And an inside track would be awesome, but definitely not expected. Were you really offended by my attempt to network in a slightly unconventional way?
As for finding the careers page, I did, but but as a relatively new company that just "knocked one out of the park" at HotChips, I figure they'll get plenty of people submitting jobs through the site. I'd much rather make my pitch of "I think this company should explore this new direction" to someone who actually has some say, and not an HR person. - techmaster, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3So this is going to be similar to a cell processor? Great. The computers of the future will be 100 times faster than the ones today, but there will be two programs that run on them.
- bemenaker, on 10/10/2007, -3/+5Only one question: Will it play Quake?
- geminitojanus, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Better question: How soon can we get OpenGL ported to it, and how soon can they spin a 8:1 reduction of that core with a single DDR2 controller and a 16x PCI-E unit?
- geminitojanus, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Well, the Internet's still pretty damned fast and there are millions of computers connected to it, this is just a micro-scaled version of that. The number of connections between cores isn't actually increased or decreased (as you'll notice in the diagrams, there are 5 on chip buses that connect to bus switches at every processor node).
They basically one-upped Intel by getting a complete version of Polaris (the Terascale Initiative's child) out the door before they could. - JEB101, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1If you read the tech documents, the cores run between 600-900 MHz each, they also have their own L1 cache. at 600 MHZ each core running would give you 38.4GHZ and 5.6GHZ running at 900. Just think.....
- BadgerUMD, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1http://www.tilera.com/products/software.php
An IDE to program it is what you're looking for, right? - stockjones, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Will this be like the cell processor? A lot cool specs and nothing but a few apps that run on it?
- Y0tsuya, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2For simple HR contact he could've just went to their website. Looks like he wants the inside track. Why would anyone here want to vet a complete stranger? If he turns out to be a doofus at the interview, the referrer's reputation suffers.
- noumuon, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Why do people who don’t want to go to hell bury themselves 2 meters closer?
- xodex, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1:D noumuon, haha good reply.
- willrawls, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Can you say brute force 128 bit encryption killer ? I knew that you could. Yeah, it would take several of these several years, but damn.. that's all it would take...
- atmodiws, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Ohhh a certified network tech. Come work for my company
- championchap, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1He probably did build it himself.
And got one hell of a computer out of it.. which is stupid if $1400 is a big investment for you.
Just spend on an upper midrange computer and then upgrade as and when NEEDED, not just because there is a new card out. - themastersb, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2NINTENDO SIXTY FOOOOOOUUUUUUUURRRRR
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