Talk:Manycore processing unit

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[edit] article name

Actually, nobody I know uses the term "manycore processing unit". The class of device that is described in this article is a type of network processor. Dyl 14:27, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

I agree that this article should be moved to a better name. It seems odd to define the phrase "many core processing unit" in a way that excludes the Kilocore. Surely there is a better name or phrase for the more specific things this article talks about. --75.19.73.101 16:11, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] scale reference

Where does the statement "Current software architectures can scale on current multicore architectures to about eight processors but have poor ability to scale beyond that number" come from? Is there something to back this up? 192.91.147.34 10:26, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] This page is almost 100% original "research" and not correct

  • The fact that Intel, AMD and Microsoft are conducting Manycore research proves that Manycore is not relegated to embedded markets only. That also means network accelerators aren't part and parcel of Manycore.
  • The claims about current programming paradigms don't work for more than 8 cores is false. There is no cliff at 8 just as there's no cliff at 4 cores nor at 2 cores.
  • Whoever wrote this article is only looking at the last 10 years or so of computing history. The articles is ignoring the long history of multiprocessing that has existed since the almost the dawn of computing.
  • What this article is trying to describe is a sub-class of network processor. But the term "Manycore" is a larger area of research than that.

In a few weeks, I'm going to cut this article to just a few sentences - saying Manycore is a class of systems where there are more than a handful of processor cores within a single piece of silicon. Dyl (talk) 19:03, 24 February 2008 (UTC)