What do 256 cores look like?

Doug Holland (Doug Holland), an engineer from Intel, posted in his blog a screenshot of the Windows Task Manager on a 256-nuclear machine.

It looks like this:


')

In my translation, Doug sets out the following on his blog :

When computers with this level of parallelism enter our lives, we will have to revise the usual interface design to work with them. Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 (on the Windows 7 kernel) combine up to 256 logical processors into groups, so you could show the level of loading of not individual processors, but groups. Without this, you will certainly need a 30 "monitor. Although, if you found money for a 256-core computer, then you can probably find some money and a wider monitor.

And in my opinion, even 50 "will not help, unless, of course, the task does not include the zombie operator two hundred and fifty sources of information at the same time :-) You can not do without a redesign.

Via Alexander Moskalyuk .