FAWN

Fast Arrays of Wimpy Nodes

According to Intel CTO, Justin Rattner, who won the best-paper prize in the Symposium on Operating System Principles with their collaborators at Carnegie Mellon, it's the idea that is they could build tomorrow's processors out of [[array|arrays}} of relatively simple cores, they could deliver data-center-class [[solution|solutions}}. It would be data centers on chips and then arrays of those chips. As seen in Information Week

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