University of Texas at Austin has designed a new processor that manages trillions of calculations per second. The TRIPS (Tera-op, Reliable, Intelligently adaptive Processing System) prototype will lead to ultra-powerful, flexible processors implemented in nanoscale technologies, claims Burger, associate professor of computer sciences. The processor could be used to accelerate industrial, consumer and scientific computing. It is based on new architectures called Explicit Data Graph Execution (EDGE) that can process large blocks of information all at once and more efficiently. Each TRIPS chip contains two processing cores, each of which can issue 16 operations per cycle with up to 1,024 instructions in flight simultaneously.

"EDGE technology offers an alternative approach when the race to multicore runs out of steam," said Keckler, associate professor of computer sciences.

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