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Multicore Expo 2007 - Multicore 'Explo' is a More Fitting Name |
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Written by Rick Hetherington
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Tuesday, 27 March 2007 |
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Abstract: Presentation made at the
Multicore Expo 2007, on March 27-29, 2007, Santa Clara, CA.
I am really fond of the way in which Wired Magazine can properly set
the tone of a topic with 'Wired, Tired, or Expired' And if we were to
position processor design using WTE, where would we put Multicore?
Since I brought it up, let me label it 'tired'. It is tired not in the
sense that it is boring but more in the sense that we have been at this
for some time now. We are well beyond asking whether this is the right
step to make or commenting on how bold a move dual core designs are.
Neither is Multicore expired, but quite the contrary. There is an
explosion of multicore designs on the market, in design and being
conceived. My talk will focus on how far this industry has come with
this design point and how quickly we will move to very large numbers of
cores and large number of threads. With a focus on what has been
happening with Niagara, we will look at what might pose a constraint on
the explosion of core count and how we might overcome those constraints.
Bio: Rick Hetherington is a Senior Distinguished Engineer with Sun
Microystems. He is the Chief Architect for Niagara processors and
Systems and has been in this role since Sun embarked on the path of CMT
designs in 2002. Rick joined SUN in 1996 as a processor architect and
prior to SUN, Rick spent 16 years at Digital Equipment Corporation. His
last assignment at DEC was System architect for the Alpha processor
known as EV6. Rick has 45 granted patents and is a graduate of Penn
State University.
Presentation: “Multicore 'Explo' is a More Fitting Name“
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