Thu, 13 May 2010 16:31:06 -0400, bearophile wrote: > Found this through Reddit, it's a short article, but it's to the point: > http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7762 > > Inside that article there is a link to a little paper: > http://techresearch.intel.com/UserFiles/en-us/File/terascale/ISSCC- paper.pdf
The paper says "All 48 IA-cores boot Linux simultaneously." Does this mean that all cores represent a virtual computer and have their own operating system? I understand this in the message passing context, but it seems rather radical compared to GPUs, multicore x86 and other contemporary systems.
