<s>
Intel	B-General_Concept
Tera-Scale	I-General_Concept
is	O
a	O
research	O
program	O
by	O
Intel	O
that	O
focuses	O
on	O
development	O
in	O
Intel	B-Device
processors	I-Device
and	O
platforms	O
that	O
utilize	O
the	O
inherent	O
parallelism	B-Operating_System
of	O
emerging	O
visual-computing	O
applications	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Such	O
applications	O
require	O
teraFLOPS	O
of	O
parallel	B-Operating_System
computing	I-Operating_System
performance	O
to	O
process	O
terabytes	O
of	O
data	O
quickly	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Parallelism	B-Operating_System
is	O
the	O
concept	O
of	O
performing	O
multiple	O
tasks	O
simultaneously	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Utilizing	O
parallelism	B-Operating_System
will	O
not	O
only	O
increase	O
the	O
efficiency	O
of	O
computer	O
processing	O
units	O
(	O
CPUs	O
)	O
,	O
but	O
also	O
increase	O
the	O
bytes	O
of	O
data	O
analyzed	O
each	O
second	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
order	O
to	O
appropriately	O
apply	O
parallelism	B-Operating_System
,	O
the	O
CPU	O
must	O
be	O
able	O
to	O
handle	O
multiple	O
threads	B-Operating_System
and	O
to	O
do	O
so	O
the	O
CPU	O
must	O
consist	O
of	O
multiple	O
cores	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Teraflops	B-General_Concept
Research	I-General_Concept
Chip	I-General_Concept
(	O
Polaris	B-General_Concept
)	O
is	O
an	O
80-core	O
prototype	O
processor	O
developed	O
by	O
Intel	O
in	O
2007	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Polaris	B-General_Concept
processor	O
requires	O
to	O
be	O
run	O
at	O
3.13GHz	O
and	O
1V	O
in	O
order	O
to	O
maintain	O
its	O
teraFLOP	O
name	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Single-chip	B-General_Concept
Cloud	I-General_Concept
Computer	I-General_Concept
is	O
another	O
research	O
processor	O
developed	O
by	O
Intel	O
in	O
2009	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Parallelism	B-Operating_System
is	O
the	O
concept	O
of	O
performing	O
multiple	O
tasks	O
simultaneously	O
,	O
effectively	O
reducing	O
the	O
time	O
needed	O
to	O
perform	O
a	O
given	O
task	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Tera-Scale	O
research	O
program	O
is	O
focused	O
on	O
the	O
concept	O
of	O
utilizing	O
many	O
more	O
cores	O
than	O
conventional	O
to	O
increase	O
performance	O
with	O
parallelism	B-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
Intel	B-General_Concept
Tera-Scale	I-General_Concept
is	O
focused	O
on	O
creating	O
multi-core	O
processors	O
that	O
can	O
utilize	O
parallel	B-Operating_System
processing	I-Operating_System
to	O
reach	O
teraFLOPS	O
of	O
computing	O
performance	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
To	O
simplify	O
CPU	O
cores	O
,	O
Intel	O
moved	O
from	O
CPUs	O
utilizing	O
the	O
x86	B-Operating_System
architecture	I-Operating_System
to	O
a	O
much	O
simpler	O
VLIW	B-General_Concept
architecture	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
VLIW	B-General_Concept
is	O
an	O
uncommon	O
architecture	O
for	O
desktops	O
,	O
but	O
is	O
adequate	O
for	O
computers	O
running	O
specialized	O
applications	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
With	O
the	O
release	O
of	O
the	O
Polaris	B-General_Concept
80	O
core	O
processor	O
in	O
2007	O
,	O
people	O
questioned	O
the	O
need	O
of	O
tens	O
or	O
hundreds	O
of	O
cores	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
From	O
Intel	O
's	O
past	O
evolution	O
from	O
single	O
core	O
to	O
multi-core	O
processors	O
,	O
Intel	O
has	O
learned	O
that	O
parallelization	B-Operating_System
is	O
the	O
key	O
to	O
the	O
greater	O
processing	O
power	O
in	O
the	O
future	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Intel	B-General_Concept
Tera-Scale	I-General_Concept
research	O
program	O
is	O
not	O
only	O
focused	O
on	O
creating	O
the	O
multi-cored	O
processors	O
,	O
but	O
also	O
the	O
parallelizing	O
applications	O
of	O
today	O
and	O
in	O
the	O
future	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
To	O
show	O
their	O
dedication	O
to	O
all	O
aspects	O
of	O
parallel	B-Operating_System
computing	I-Operating_System
,	O
Intel	O
set	O
aside	O
$20	O
million	O
to	O
establish	O
centers	O
that	O
will	O
research	O
and	O
develop	O
new	O
methods	O
utilize	O
parallel	B-Operating_System
computing	I-Operating_System
in	O
many	O
more	O
applications	O
.	O
</s>
