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  • Tera-Scale: What Would We Do with All These Cores and How Would We Feed Them?

    By Justin Rattner | February 20, 2007, 12:56pm PST

    Last week’s Tera-scale announcement at the International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) certainly created a lot of buzz in the press and on the Web. I have to admit being somewhat...

  • 80 isn't nearly enough

    By Justin Rattner | February 12, 2007, 11:27am PST

    What an exciting week this has been. We unleashed the ‘Era of Tera’ by showcasing the world’s first programmable processor that can deliver Teraflops performance with remarkable energy...

  • Polaris Points the Way to Terascale Computing

    By Justin Rattner | December 18, 2006, 2:12pm PST

    Two months ago at the Intel Developer Forum, Intel’s CEO, Paul Otellini, unveiled a 300mm wafer that contained hundreds of massively multi-core prototype processors each consisting of 80...

  • Mind the Gap

    By Justin Rattner | December 4, 2006, 1:01pm PST

    In the not too distant future, we can expect to see magnetic disk drives relegated to the role that tape drives play today

  • Cool Codes

    By Justin Rattner | September 1, 2006, 2:05pm PDT

    I firmly believe that we are sitting on a plateau just waiting for the next order-of-magnitude leap in computer performance and capability to unleash a new age of application innovation

  • The end of applications?

    By Justin Rattner | August 10, 2006, 11:19am PDT

    Sometimes someone says something at a conference that really knocks me for a loop. Such was the case at the High Performance Computer Architecture Conference last year. In typical panel fashion, a...

  • Your Cards and Letters

    By Justin Rattner | July 7, 2006, 10:02am PDT

    I’m optimistic that we will see the programming breakthroughs in the next few years that will make it much easier to write efficient, correct, and modular programs for multi-core processors

  • The green flash

    By Justin Rattner | June 26, 2006, 1:00pm PDT

    When the prospect of doing a blog came across my screen, I turned to my most trusted advisor on such matters, one of my 19-year old twin boys…

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