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 A research team at The University of Texas at Austin, has just recently shown a prototype for a radical new general purpose computer processor architecture, which apparently has the potential to perform at the trillions of calculations per second level. Known as the TRIPS chip (Tera-op, Reliable, Intelligently adaptive Processing System), they indicate each of the two cores running at a measly 500mhz (on a 130nm process developed through a partnership with IBM) can generate a peak performance of 500 gigaflops! Sweet stuff! And it's good to see that processor development isn't a dead science. Scienceblog reports...Professors Stephen Keckler, Doug Burger and Kathryn McKinley have been working on underlying technology that culminated in the TRIPS prototype for the past seven years. Their research team designed and built the hardware prototype chips and the software that runs on the chips. "The TRIPS prototype is the first on a roadmap that will lead to ultra-powerful, flexible processors implemented in nanoscale technologies," said Burger, associate professor of computer sciences. TRIPS is a demonstration of a new class of processing architectures called Explicit Data Graph Execution (EDGE). Unlike conventional architectures that process one instruction at a time, EDGE can process large blocks of information all at once and more efficiently. Add this page to your favorite Social Bookmarking websites           
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