Tech Shout!

At the Intel Developer Forum, Intel Corp announced the company’s Tera-Scale Computing Research Program, a broad endeavor in the boundaries of its community to develop future platforms that will deliver abilities that go beyond the present day computers.

The Tera-Scale Computing Research Program will be a global initiative, which will be involving hundreds of researchers working on over 80 related projects at Intel research and development labs around the globe.

According to Intel the Tera-Scale Program envelops a lot of research areas, including development of silicon and platform technologies and allowing well threaded software, with an aim to deliver platforms with the help of processors with 10’s or even as much as 100’s of cores within the next ten years.

Justin Rattner, Intel chief technology officer said, “Once in a generation an opportunity like this comes along to bring dramatically improved computing benefits to millions of people.” He continued, “The program’s potential is really for entirely new kinds of applications and, in particular, applications that exhibit human-like characteristics.”

The noteworthy effort that has been put in by analysis of what people will need from their PCs and servers in the following ten years is one of the most important aspects of the overall program. Therefore, a study of future software tasks, or “workloads”, will play an essential and motivating role in the path of the research.