Programming the Intel 80-core network-on-a-chip terascale processor

  • Authors:
  • Timothy G. Mattson;Rob Van der Wijngaart;Michael Frumkin

  • Affiliations:
  • Intel Corp., DuPont, WA;Intel Corp., Santa Clara, CA;Google Inc., Mountain View, CA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2008 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Intel's 80-core Terascale Processor was the first generally programmable microprocessor to break the Teraflops barrier. The primary goal for the chip was to study power management and on-die communication technologies. When announced in 2007, it received a great deal of attention for running a stencil kernel at 1.0 single precision TFLOPS while using only 97 Watts. The literature about the chip, however, focused on the hardware, saying little about the software environment or the kernels used to evaluate the chip.