While we mere mortals are all happy with our dual-core processors and all excited about the upcoming quad-core processors, several researchers from Tokyo University are secretly snickering at us.虽然我们只是凡人，都是很乐意与我们的双核心处理器和所有兴奋，即将到来的四核心处理器，几名研究人员从日本东京大学是秘密snickering在了我们面前。 But of course, they have all the right to do so since they invented a但当然，他们都有权这样做，因为他们发明了一种 512-core processor 512核心处理器 known as the Grape DR chip.被称为葡萄博士芯片。

To be accurate, the processor is not a replacement for our favorite Intels and AMDs, but sits on a PCI-X card providing number-crunching power.要准确，处理器是不是取代我们最喜爱的英特尔和amds ，但坐在PCI - X卡提供的数目-业绩的权力。 Even though the processor runs at just 500MHz, it is capable of delivering 512GLOPS (512 billion floating-point operations every second).即使处理器运行在500 MHz的公正，这是有能力提供512glops （ 5120.00亿浮点运算每秒） 。 To put things into perspective, our modern processors are only capable of performing at把事情的角度来看，我们的现代处理器，只有能够在表演 a few GFLOPS数GFLOPS的 . 。

The 512 cores are split into 16 groups of 32, each group capable of processing a single type of FP instruction. 512核心分为16组32岁，各组能处理一个单一类型的FP指示。 The chip itself measures 17 x 17mm and contains 300m transistors.该芯片本身的措施， 17 x 17毫米，并载有300个晶体管。 It consumes up to 60W of power.它消耗最多六十〇瓦特权力。

The researchers actually started working on this project since 2004.研究者其实开始这方面的工作项目自2004年以来。 By 2008, they hope to accomplish a prototype capable of delivering 2PFLOPS (two quadrillion floating-point operations a second,到2008年，他们希望完成的原型，能够提供2pflops （ 2万亿浮点运算的第二个， 3906.25 times 3906.25倍 faster than 512GLOPS).速度比512glops ） 。