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Tera-scale Computing Research Program

Tera-scale computing: Unlocking the Future
 

The Intel® Tera-scale Computing Research Program is a worldwide effort to advance computing technology for the next decade. By scaling multi-core architectures to 10s to 100s of cores and embracing a shift to parallel programming, we aim to enable applications and capabilities only dreamt of today.

"Tera" means 1 trillion, or 1,000,000,000,000. Our vision is to create plaforms capable performing of trillions of calculations per second (teraflops) on trillions of bytes of data (terabytes).   

Hardware Research Vision
  • Scalable multi-core architectures which integrate streamlined processor cores and accelerators using a fast, energy-efficient, modular core-to-core infrastructure. 
    Examples: 80-core prototype, Tera-scale Emulator, Dynamic Thermal Management, Task Queues.
     
  • Memory sharing and stacking to provide a high bandwidth, flexible, cache & memory hierarchy which supports many simultaneous threads fairly and efficiently. 
    Examples: 3D Stacking, Cache Quality of Service.
     
  • High Bandwidth I/O and Communications which balance the compute demands with I/O and network demands within the platform power and cost budgets. 
    Examples: High-speed Copper I/O, Silicon Photonics, I/O Accelerators. 

Software Research Vision
  • Model-based applications which use tera-scale capabilties to give technology the ability to comprehend data, make decisions, and synthesize virtual possibilities. More> 
    Examples: Ray Tracing, Physical Modeling, Media Mining and Enhancment
     
  • Parallel programming tools that empower the ordinary programmer to develop applications that use parallelism with scalability & performance, safety & reliability.
    Examples: Transactional Memory, Accelerator Exoskeleton, Ct Data-Parallel Programming
     
  • Thread-aware execution environments that provide real-time performance & power management across cores and scale with increasing thread and core counts.
    Examples: Many-core Run Time, Tera-scale Virtual Machine

Featured Projects

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The latest research in
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Learn more about tera-scale computing and the latest research results in the Intel Technology Journal

Prototype Software Transactional Memory Compiler available! 
 

 
Featured Blogs

Randy Mooney describes the latest tera-scale circuit research presented at ISSCC.

Anwar Ghuloum introduces Ct: C for Throughput Computing

 
 
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