I highly recommend browsing the Wiki that has been put up at UC Berkeley’s EECS dept to complement it’s original white paper (also excellent). It’s hard to predict the future applications of massively parallel systems, but we know it will be a giant evolutionary leap. They see multi-core as 2-32 processors and many-core as hundreds and thousands of cores. Intel is already experimenting with an 80-core system that they pledge will be shippable in 5 years. 64-bit quad-core is already available for about $300. I’m still amazed by that much power for so little cash.
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