Multiprocessors

Multiprocessors:

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Chip Multiprocessing (CMP) Resources - Large link page: press releases, academic papers, presentations on dual-core and multicore processors. By James Donald, Electrical Engineering Department, Princeton University.
MIT Alewife Project - Large-scale multiprocessor, integrates cache-coherent, distributed shared memory, and user-level message-passing, in one integrated hardware framework; papers, people, pictures, posters.
Multiprocessing - Growing entry, with links to many related topics. Wikipedia
NUMAchine - Shared memory multiprocessor architecture, and software for easy and efficient use: Tornado operating system, Jasmine compiler. Descriptions, documents, papers, pictures.
PiSMA: A Parallel VSM Architecture - Parallel vIrtually Shared Memory Architecture; merges benefits of shared and distributed memory models, secures confidential communication via authentication. ACM Crossroads
Rapport, Inc. - Makes high performance, lower power parallel processor chips, uses PowerPC core with 256 subcores, to produce Kilocore chip with over 1,000 cores.

Beyond the Teraflops: Why Intel Really Put 80 Cores on a Single Chip - Network is main motive; based on interview with Thom Sawicki, technology strategist, Intel Communications Technology Lab, on the Terascale computing research initiative. Ars Technica. (April 2, 2007)
Intel Pieces Together 80-core Processor - Researchers craft early model, as part of Intel tera-scale computing project to build fast parallel processor. PC Authority. (February 13, 2007)
The Era of Tera: Intel Reveals More about 80-core CPU - Last year Intel talked of 80-core Teraflop CPU. Today we get many more details on architecture and role in future of multicore CPUs. AnandTech. (February 11, 2007)
1,000 Cores on a Chip - Brief article on Rapport's Kilocore chip, which may be used for video processing. Technology Review. (July 11, 2006)
Time to Accept Parallel but Not without a Fight - Physical law is forcing the semiconductor industry to accept something it knew all along but refused to acknowledge: the most effective way to provide high-performance is to use many processors, not just one. ElectronicsWeekly (March 10, 2006)