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The Next Big Innovation in Microprocessors: Anant Agarwal (Part 11)
Posted on Thursday, Aug 30th
One of the greatest challenges with Massively Parallel Computing is Programmability. Anant explains Tilera’s approach to software and tools in more detail, and his “gentle slope programming” concept. SM: You created all of the tools from scratch, or did you base them on existing tools? AA: We invented all of this, and it is very
The Next Big Innovation in Microprocessors: Anant Agarwal (Part 5)
Posted on Friday, Aug 24th
Here we delve into a discussion of the differences between multiprocessor and multicore architectures. Multicore is when you put multiple processors on a single chip. But you still need to overcome bus bottlenecks. SM: So multicore does not use the traditional packaging? AA: Not really. In multiprocessors, for example, at Alewife we built a machine
