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This is just the beginning, they are planning to build chips with a lot more than 64 cores

• rch 13y ago
  Looks like an excellent first step to me. I've been waiting for hardware along these lines for years, and am glad to see some progress is finally being made.
  • eric_bullington 13y ago
    But when will have programming languages that can accommodate them? Haskell gives some hope, and Go, but we're no where near where we need to be for mainstream developers to take advantage of so many cores. Any ideas?
    • rch 13y ago
      There is already a great deal of language support, and having boards like this will certainly help popularize the parallel programming skill-set. Since it looks like there is an integrated FPGA, I'd like to see Dynamic Method Migration[1] make some progress too. Given the libraries, mainstream developers will probably have no problem taking advantage of this class of hardware, using whatever language they might deem appropriate. Of course when I see this board, I think more about nonlinear PDE than web apps... so, how are you defining mainstream? [1] http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IPDPS.2004.1303105 http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IPDPS.2004.1303105 (google the title to find the full text)