If you are going to build processors with large numbers of cores, argues Anant Agarwal, you have to figure out how to connect them to each other, too.
A decade of research into that problem has resulted in Tilera, Agarwal's company, which has invented a 64-core processor with an embedded high-speed network that can pass up to 32 terabits of data a second between the various cores.
And 64 cores is just the start.
Agarwal and other executives from the company will discuss the architecture further on Monday at the Hot Chips conference here at Stanford University. Researchers at Intel, IBM, Advanced Micro Devices, and the the University of Texas, among others, also will present papers.
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