Multicore Data Transfer Research

Aniruddha Vaidya shows Intel's prototype technology to transfer data among 36 processor cores arranged in a 6-by-6 grid. The demonstration, part of Intel's tera-scale project, simulated challenges that the company will face with much more larger-scale multicore processors of the future. The design could route around failed cores and be partitioned into independent groups of cores, an idea that Intel believes will be useful for virtualization and security reasons.

Intel Labs researchers showed the technology at an Intel Research Day event.