many-core
|man-y-core|
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/ˈmɛniˌkɔr/
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/ˈmɛniˌkɔː/
many processing cores
Etymology
'many-core' originates in modern English as a compound formed from 'many' and 'core' to describe processors with many cores.
'many' dates back to Old English 'manig' meaning 'many' and 'core' in its central/essential sense traces to Old French 'coeur' and Latin 'cor, cord-' meaning 'heart'. The compound 'many-core' arose in computing usage in the early 21st century as core counts on chips grew.
Initially a literal compound meaning 'having many cores'; over time it acquired the specialized technical sense of a class of processor architectures and programming models optimized for very high core counts and massive parallelism.
Meanings by Part of Speech
Noun 1
a processor or computing device that contains many cores; a many-core processor.
The research group evaluated the performance of a many-core on parallel matrix multiplication.
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Adjective 1
describing a processor or architecture that contains a large number of CPU cores (significantly more than typical multicore designs), optimized for high parallelism.
many-core systems require different parallel-programming techniques than traditional multicore CPUs.
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