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Tera-Scale Computing (on a chip)

December 7, 2006

Bytes per second (BPS) is primarily for measuring bandwidth, bits per second (bps) I/O (input/output).

Terascale Computing SystemThis Terascale Computing System went online in 2001 and was composed of 64 servers

The requirements for tera-scale computing include (1) trillions of operations per second (OPS), (2) trillions of bytes per second bandwidth, and (3) trillions of bits per second input/output. That's "teraOPS of performance, terabytes-per-second of memory bandwidth, and terabits-per-second of I/O capacity".

Terabits per second (tbps) links send terabytes (TB) of data.

Chips for tera-scale computing are still in the research and development stage. Nevertheless "it is an exciting first step".

Details have emerged of "the world's first programmable TeraFLOP processor".

Terabytes per second (TBPS) is made possible through 20MB of SRAM (static RAM) on the processor die. Tera bits per second (tbps) through Hybrid Silicon Lasers.

TeraFLOPS is enabled by a 8x10 array of processing elements.

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