The Computing Ability Of Processor Needs Breakthrough

Published:2011/3/31 3:23:00 Author:Li xiao na From:SeekIC

The Moore law is coming to the end and the computing devices are becoming movable, therefore, the technicians try to transform the construction to the parallel computation, thus the performance can be improved. Practitioners are growing concern that the computing engine of microprocessor has come to the power wall now. This view has caused the new estimation about the circuit of high-performance processor. The newest research, which is made by American National Research Council, tries to answer the basic questions.

The report indicates that the serial computation should give way to parallel computation in the future, and the following exploration will go with software and hardware. No matter the technicians can develop the new software for the multi-core architecture or not, the new parallel environment is needed. When the single processor and CMOS come to the end, the chip designers and software developers should shift the emphasis on parallel computation.

The research has provided the government, corporations and colleges some directional advices. First is to use the new computation; second is to develop the new programming methods with the aim of wider industrial application; third is to update the update the traditional methods; fourth is to invest on the parallel construction which are driven by the new emerging application. In the aspect of software, some aspects maintain that the trend of opening source supports the exploration of new programming methods. Now, the trend of opening source has caused a notable impact on the computer, a new way is needed to drive the software.

Some people point out that the movable device’s performance improvement is limited by the power consumption; therefore, improving the performance means consuming more power. Scientists have reached a consensus that the chip designers and software developers should cooperate with each other to find new mode with high-performance. In the final analysis, power consumption is the main problem. The voltage should be decreased; otherwise, the parallel strategy will fail. The related integrated circuit is HMBTA56.

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