Intel Single-chip Cluster

[retard]

Thu, 13 May 2010 16:31:06 -0400, bearophile wrote:

> Found this through Reddit, it's a short article, but it's to the point:
> http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7762
> 
> Inside that article there is a link to a little paper:
> http://techresearch.intel.com/UserFiles/en-us/File/terascale/ISSCC-
paper.pdf

The paper says "All 48 IA-cores boot Linux simultaneously."

Does this mean that all cores represent a virtual computer and have their 
own operating system? I understand this in the message passing context, 
but it seems rather radical compared to GPUs, multicore x86 and other 
contemporary systems.