Breaking the Multicore Bottleneck

Simple hardware speeds core-to-core communication

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Photo: Intel
It’s Getting Crowded:  This Intel Haswell-EX Xeon E7 V3 processor has 18 cores trying to work together without messing up one another’s calculations. A bit of additional hardware could speed up communication among the cores.
Photo: Intel

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