Chips are getting faster every year, as they’ve always done, but a team of researchers at MIT claims they may have found a way to make current multi-core chips FAR faster than they are. In a 64-core chip, the researchers supposedly achieved a speed increase of 46% with a power consumption decrease of 36%. The speed increase is especially important considering how popular multi-core chips are becoming in data centers and supercomputers. 

A team of MIT researchers have discovered a possible way to make multicore chips a whole lot faster than they currently are, according to a recently published research paper. The researchers’ work involves the creation of a scheduling technique called CDCS, which refers to computation and data co-scheduling. This technique can distribute both data and computations throughout a chip in such a way that the researchers claim that in a 64-core chip, computational speeds saw a 46 percent increase while power consumption decreased by 36 percent. This boost in speed is important because multicore chips are becoming more prevalent in data centers and supercomputers as a way to increase performance. The basic premise behind the new scheduling technique is that data has to be near the computation that uses it, and the best way to do so is with a combination of hardware and software that distributes both the data and computations throughout the chip more easily than before.