Smarter multicore chips
New approach to distributing computations could make multicore chips much faster.
New approach to distributing computations could make multicore chips much faster.
Researchers revamp a common “data structure” so that it will work with multicore chips.
Design lets chip manage local memory stores efficiently using an Internet-style communication network.
A new system makes hardware models of multicore chips more efficient, easier to design and more reliable.
To take advantage of multicore chips, programmers will need software development systems that let them express themselves in fundamentally new ways.
Operating systems for multicore chips will need more information about their own performance — and more resources for addressing whatever problems arise.
Improving communication between distributed processors and managing shared data are two of the central challenges in creating tomorrow’s chips.
A computer chip that performs imprecise calculations could process some types of data thousands of times more efficiently than existing chips.
Research suggests that the free operating system Linux will keep up with the addition of more ‘cores,’ or processing units, to computer chips.
MIT researchers find a way to make complex computer simulations run more efficiently on chips with multiple processors.
As chip makers turn to multiple 'cores' to improve performance, MIT researchers help ease programmers' transition to parallel programming.