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25-Core "Piton" SPARC CPU Unveiled by Princeton University

posted by janrinok on Saturday August 27 2016, @06:42AM   Printer-friendly
from the faster-clouds dept.

takyon writes:

Princeton University researchers presented a 25-core "manycore" CPU at the Hot Chips conference:

It was a week for chip launches with the Hot Chips conference setting the stage for the unveiling of the IBM Power9 processor (report forthcoming) and a custom ARM-based 64-core CPU from Chinese firm Phytium Technology. A 25-core academic manycore processor out of Princeton University also made its debut from the Silicon Valley event.

[...] "With Piton, we really sat down and rethought computer architecture in order to build a chip specifically for data centers and the cloud," said David Wentzlaff, a Princeton assistant professor of electrical engineering and associated faculty in the Department of Computer Science in an official announcement. "The chip we've made is among the largest chips ever built in academia and it shows how servers could run far more efficiently and cheaply."

Piton is based on the SPARC V9 64-bit ISA and supports Debian Linux. After being designed in early 2015, Piton was taped-out in IBM's 32nm SOI process. The 6×6 millimeter die has more than 460 million transistors. The silicon has been tested in the lab and is working, according to the research team.

The design is open source (open, DOI: 10.1145/2954679.2872414) (DX). More information here.

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  • (Score: 1) by cyberthanasis on Saturday August 27 2016, @10:50AM

    by cyberthanasis (5212) on Saturday August 27 2016, @10:50AM (#393900)

    I wish there were desktop computers with this cpu and there were multiple linux and BSD distros for them. Then I would buy one or two and stick a label with capital letters: WINDOWS IS INCAPABLE TO RUN THIS COMPUTER
    A man can only dream.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 27 2016, @10:58AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 27 2016, @10:58AM (#393903)

    Then I would buy one or two and stick a label with capital letters: WINDOWS IS INCAPABLE TO RUN THIS COMPUTER

    Can't you already do that with most (if not all) computers running RISC processors?

    • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 27 2016, @02:08PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 27 2016, @02:08PM (#393929)

      Unless you go back in time and get older versions of NT that supported other architectures like MIPS and Alpha.

      And of course win 10 will run on ARM.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 27 2016, @10:43PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 27 2016, @10:43PM (#394052)

        Do you have that running?
        ...or are you repeating scuttlebutt you've heard?

        My sources [google.com] say it's still vaporware.

        There is no equivalent to Windows RT [wikipedia.org] for Windows 10, and Microsoft does not consider Windows RT devices to be compatible with Windows 10.

        Windows 10 Mobile, based on Windows Phone, was unveiled for use on tablets and smartphones with ARM architecture.

        -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

        • (Score: 2) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Sunday August 28 2016, @05:15AM

          by Scruffy Beard 2 (6030) on Sunday August 28 2016, @05:15AM (#394105)

          I was close to modding you up, but I checked Wikipedia's references:

          The evolved Windows Phone, which is designed for both ARM and x86-based processors, and which runs on devices with 8-inch or smaller touch screens, runs one set of apps. The evolved Windows 8.1, which runs only on x86 processors and has a non-touchscreen mode, runs another set of apps. But Microsoft is giving them the same name.

          - Windows RT Is Dead, But Microsoft Hasn't Learned [pcmag.com]

          I got an interstitial when I copied that quote >.>

  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Sunday August 28 2016, @08:18PM

    by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Sunday August 28 2016, @08:18PM (#394318) Homepage
    I abhor the x86 architecture, and avoid it where possible, so I am well in the market for one of these. 460M trannies should be way cooler than the intel monsters.
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