Intel Quad-Core Microprocessor Chips unveiled by IBM
On Tuesday, Intel, the world’s largest chip maker unveiled its first quad-core microprocessor. The chip maker officially released versions of its four-core server and PC chips.
Last year, the dual-core technology that was launched uses two microprocessors to perform tasks at the same time. However, Intel’s latest Haifa innovation uses quad-core microprocessors, which actually doubles the equation. This further increases the computer processing speeds and energy savings.
According to Intel, the makers of the quad-core processor, “The technology delivers four “computing brains” inside a single microprocessor enabling it to multi-task more effectively.”
Intel is aiming its latest innovation at the high-end market, as the launch sees the introduction of the Quad-Core Xeon 5300 and Intel Core 2 Extreme quad-core families for general purpose servers and workstations, digital media creation, high-end gaming and other market segments as well.
Intel released four Xeon processors and also plan on introducing another two lower voltage versions and a processor designed for single socket workstations and servers in the first quarter of 2007.
Speaking about the launch of the second series, Intel said the Core 2 Extreme quad-core processor QX6700 is up to 80 per cent faster than its current Intel Core 2 Extreme Processor X6800. This further boosts its compatibility for multimedia or gaming applications. The company plans to offer a mainstream quad-core processor in the first quarter of 2007 under the brand name Intel Core 2 Quad processor.
“Today’s announcement ushers in another new era in computing,” said Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini. “The capabilities of quad-core microprocessors will bring new possibilities for science, entertainment and business.”
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April 18th, 2007 at 2:16 pm
Our team is developing a modeling and simulation training system that will have multiple student nodes that need extensive math computing. We must be able to stop the processes at any point to record all status and then continue. We need to be able to stop, turn off the systems and then come back up in the same state and continue processing in less than a minute. We need to set breakpoints or snapshot points so that after an exercise we can pick a time and go back and reprocess a segment without needing to have run through an entire training exercise to get to that point.
It is a little more complex than that but that is the basic concept. I have been retired and out of the business for some time so I am technologically challenged, but on the face of it, it appears that the quad concepts may have the flexibility I shall need. I shall also need to archive about 8 terabytes over 14 hours. I believe that can be distributed over 4 separate systems. Would like to run most of the data through a proprietary compression algorithm that I am following on a separate effort. Then, would expect the compressed data to look like a bank of memory for the RAID capabilities of the quad sub system.
Am I smoking rope of is the Quad Core approach viable for other than networking applications?
I’ll be using Red Hat so I’ll also address this to them?
Peace, Bob Sommer