36-core chip developed that has its own Internet
Posted by freedomforall 12 years ago to Technology
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Rather than having a single wire bus connecting the cores together, this chip only connects each core directly to its neighbors. Just like the Internet, if you want to communicate with a core on the other side of the chip, you need to route that message through multiple cores to get there.
By using such a method each core isn’t sat waiting to send a message, they can send lots through multiple connections and know that the network will get it there.
Rather than having a single wire bus connecting the cores together, this chip only connects each core directly to its neighbors. Just like the Internet, if you want to communicate with a core on the other side of the chip, you need to route that message through multiple cores to get there.
By using such a method each core isn’t sat waiting to send a message, they can send lots through multiple connections and know that the network will get it there.
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- 1Posted by iroseland 12 years agothe article is a tad sloppy.. The internal internet they describe is really just routing kind of like ospf implemented on the die to manage traffic between the cores. Which in and of itself if actually pretty damn sweet..| Permalink
