Multicore

Simulating tomorrow’s chipsA new system makes hardware models of multicore chips more efficient, easier to design and more reliable.

Chips as mini InternetsThe data-routing techniques that undergird the Internet could increase the efficiency of multicore chips while lowering their power requirements.

Testing unbuilt chipsA new software-simulation system promises much more accurate evaluation of promising — but potentially fault-ridden — multicore-chip designs.

Agarwal named CSAIL directorSucceeds Zue to lead the Institute’s largest interdisciplinary lab

Language barrierTo take advantage of multicore chips, programmers will need software development systems that let them express themselves in fundamentally new ways.

The next operating systemOperating systems for multicore chips will need more information about their own performance — and more resources for addressing whatever problems arise.

Designing the hardwareImproving communication between distributed processors and managing shared data are two of the central challenges in creating tomorrow’s chips.

The surprising usefulness of sloppy arithmeticA computer chip that performs imprecise calculations could process some types of data thousands of times more efficiently than existing chips.

Multicore may not be so scaryResearch suggests that the free operating system Linux will keep up with the addition of more ‘cores,’ or processing units, to computer chips.

Mastering multicoreMIT researchers find a way to make complex computer simulations run more efficiently on chips with multiple processors.

Parallel courseAs chip makers turn to multiple 'cores' to improve performance, MIT researchers help ease programmers' transition to parallel programming.