Cores Cores and...

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The "world's first" 100-Core Processor: Tilera's TILE-Gx100



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Leon

The nVIDIA Tesla chip has 240 cores:

www.nvidia.com/object/tesla_computing_solutions.html

The new Fermi chip will have 512 cores:

www.nvidia.com/object/fermi_architecture.html

Leon

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Amateur radio callsign: G1HSM

Post Edited (Leon) : 10/26/2009 6:03:36 PM GMT

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Yes, that's why I put "The World's First" in quotations. Got the news from one of the online tech rags - they frequently abuse headline grabbers too much these days. ... "Does embedded Linux Suck" was another gem. The article turned out to be a blog opinion with no substance. (Grrrrrr!)

Leon> 240 cores ... 512 cores...

The concept of "Core" is probably as nebulous as RISC ( - so let's not go *there* [noparse]:)[/noparse])

Indeed, I've got one of the smaller nVidia boards with a 'big core' here for CUDA programming.
Had heard rumors of its bigger brother - thanks for the links, Leon.

Gads, Man, the fermi is KILLER !

- H

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VIRAND

I once had an old 8192-core memory in my junk collection but I sold it to another "vintage" computer collector
on ebay for a handful of cash. It was 1KB of nonvolatile RAM in the form of tiny donut magnets somehow weaved
into a sheet of colorful magnet wire on a PCB. There are too many things and not enough names for them.

BTW:Anybody know what a certain "Magnistor" that uniquely looks like a 1 Farad supercapacitor with
a circle of pins (like a guitar amp tube) on the bottom does? I have some, but no clue what for.
Probably older than the core memory, and definitely found in the same scrap heap. (I doubt
anyone currently living on earth has ever used one.)

Also,(giggle) there is something similar looking, but longer, for Tube Radios in Cars that converted 6 volts DC
to higher voltage AC, and it is called a "Vibrator", and I wouldn't doubt that some people may have used
them in place of the other device with the same name.

Leon

The magnistor might be a small magnetic amplifier. We used mag-amps a lot when I was a student at English Electric, Kidsgrove, in the early 1960s.

I remember using one of those vibrators over 50 years ago with a filament transformer to make a high voltage supply. My older brother was in the Merchant Navy and had several as spares for the inverter he used to power the hi-fi unit he used in his cabin from the DC supply.

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Post Edited (Leon) : 10/27/2009 11:59:54 AM GMT

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Virand - funny how the world changes, eh?

Apple Cores -> ferrite memory cores ->cpu cores ->... photon cores -> nano-braino cores? [noparse]:)[/noparse]

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hover1

Maybe I should have tried this in my new computer build:


Instead of this:

The·Core Memory board·was free. The Quadro was $3000·
There are more ferrites than 240

VIRAND said...
I once had an old 8192-core memory in my junk collection but I sold it to another "vintage" computer collector
on ebay for a handful of cash.

Sold a few Core Memories on ebay. They still fetch some good cash. I may keep this last one.

Jim

W9GFO

VIRAND said...

Also,(giggle) there is something similar looking, but longer, for Tube Radios in Cars that converted 6 volts DC
to higher voltage AC, and it is called a "Vibrator", and I wouldn't doubt that some people may have used
them in place of the other device with the same name.

Sounds similar to something used in in the ignition system of old radial aircraft engines - 'shower of sparks' or something like that...

Rich H

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The Simple Servo Tester, a kit from Gadget Gangster.