Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

Intel's Xeon Phi architecture has 60+ cores with multiple threads each, with cache coherence (albeit using a more standard dictionary): http://htor.inf.ethz.ch/publications/img/ramos-hoefler-cc-mo... - so we're getting there.


Yes, though IIRC they had to modify the long-standing IA memory ordering rules in order to make that happen. Xeon Phi requires manual fence management in most cases, I believe.


Note that those particular cores are also doing SIMT like GPUs are, so the problem is different from cache coherence on general purpose cores.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: